Compared on isolation, rules and cost
The open-source CompanyOS
Some Grok Bot alternatives are bots you install and run yourself. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS a team owns. The comparison splits five options on one question: a bot you run, or a system your company owns.
Open source · Any model, your keys · Cloud, VPC or on-prem
kortix cr ls # open change requestskortix cr diff 1 # the unified diffkortix cr merge 1 # merge into the base branchgit pull # bring the merged work into your cloneSession work reaches main through a change request. Merge is default-deny for agents.
Kortix first. A rival column repeats that project’s own description, and every Grok Bot cell is xAI’s.
| Criteria | our pick | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | An open-source CompanyOS for a team | Hosted bots from xAI, included with Premium, Super and Ultra | A self-hosted, open-source alternative to Grok Bot, in beta | An open-source assistant that runs on your own computer | A chat app where each sidebar bot is a real agent |
| Open source | Yes | No | Yes, Apache-2.0 license | Yes, MIT license | Yes, Apache-2.0 license |
| Where it runs | Kortix Cloud, your own VPC or your own on-prem network | One xAI cloud computer, encrypted in transit and at rest | Your own host: Docker, E2B, Daytona, CreateOS, Boat or a trusted local computer | Your own computer, through one Gateway | Locally, in apps for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu |
| Whose work stays separate | One isolated sandbox per session | Isolation is per user, so every Bot shares one machine | Shared team computers, plus isolated private computers | One Gateway per deployment, personal or shared across a team | Each bot has its own personality, model, computer and apps |
| What stays with you | Connector credentials are brokered server-side and never enter the machine. | Encryption in transit and at rest, plus a training opt-out | Everything, because it runs on your host | Everything: the assistant lives on your computer | Everything: the agents run locally on your machine |
| What three people pay | From $50 a month in credits, at 100 credits per dollar | From $30 a month on Premium, $100 on Super | Your own or rented host, and the project is in beta | Nothing: no paid tier, hosted service or token | Self-hosted at no charge, or a hosted Starter plan at $15 a month |
Rival cells repeat each project’s README as published in October 2026, and the Grok Bot cells come from x.ai and its docs. Check each vendor before you buy.
The split follows how many people and clients the work touches.
Solo operator
Nobody else touches your work, so OpenClaw at no charge or OpenMausBot on your own desktop is the cheaper fit, and neither asks you to manage a project for a team.
One operator, one set of logins
Two-person studio
A bot on one machine carries one set of logins, so a session with its own computer and its own branch keeps a client’s accounts out of the other client’s work.
| Client | Session | Logins |
|---|---|---|
| Acme | f_12 | client A only |
| Globex | f_19 | client B only |
One computer per client
Small team
When a client asks what changed and who allowed it, the answer is a diff in the repo and a change request a person merged.
agents: support-triage:- connectors: all+ connectors: [zendesk, slack]+ kortix_permissions: [project.app.read]+2 −1
Opened as a change request, merged by a person
Every product here gives an agent a computer and a way into your tools. What differs is who ends up on that computer, and each project says so in its own words.
OpenClaw runs one Gateway, offered "as a personal assistant or as a shared team deployment" (openclaw/openclaw). OpenMausBot puts a real agent behind every name in the sidebar, each with "its own personality, model, cloud computer and connected apps", running Claude or Codex on your desktop (milind-soni/OpenMausBot). Rakazo sells "Shared Team Computers and isolated Private computers" (elie222/rakazo). Grok Bot is the bluntest of the four: "Your Bots share that machine (files, browser, logins), so they can hand work off and keep context. Isolation is per user, not per Grok Bot," says x.ai/bot.
Kortix moves the unit down one level: one isolated sandbox per session, and each session has its own isolated machine and branch, per the Kortix security page.
Per bot, per user, per session. The same product description covers three different units of ownership, and they part company the first week two people use them, so the isolation unit is the line to compare these products on.
If you are one person on your own accounts, one machine is the point. Your logins are already there, your files are in reach, and nobody has to model who may see what. OpenClaw charges nothing, with no paid tier, hosted service or token, and OpenMausBot is open source you can run on the desktop you already own. OpenMausBot also sells a hosted Starter plan at $15 a month for up to 100 computer-hours, while a paid Kortix plan starts at $50 a month in credits at 100 credits per dollar.
The arithmetic changes when the work stops belonging to one person. A studio with two clients cannot put both sets of logins in one browser profile, and a team of five cannot answer "who could read that mailbox" from a settings screen.
A bot that shares your browser posts as whoever is signed in. On one operator's machine that is fine, because there is one identity. Add a second client, and the shared profile becomes a way to send the wrong invoice from the wrong account, with no record that it happened.
A session with its own computer and its own branch removes that failure by construction. The client's work runs somewhere the other client's logins do not exist, and the branch is what a reviewer diffs later.
That question arrives after an incident, or during a client's security review, and the honest answer for most bot products is a plan name and a checkbox. Kortix answers it with a gate: session work reaches main through a change request, and merge is default-deny for agents (Kortix security page).
A permission edit is merged like any other change, so the record of who allowed what is a commit instead of a memory. That is also why self-hosted Grok Bot alternatives and Grok Bot security end up as the same question for a buyer: where the rules live decides what you can show afterwards.
Kortix runs on Kortix Cloud, in your own VPC or on your own on-prem network, with any model and your own keys, so the answer to "can this sit where our data sits" is a deployment choice. Rakazo is the other option with team computers, and it is in beta; those computers are shared, which lands nearer Grok Bot's model than Kortix's per-session one.
If the plan comparison matters more than the architecture, Grok Bot pricing covers the xAI tiers, and Grok Bot vs Kortix takes the two side by side.
Each answer stands on its own.
Yes. OpenClaw (MIT, on your own computer), OpenMausBot (Apache-2.0, a desktop app with one agent per bot), Rakazo (Apache-2.0, self-hosted and in beta) and Kortix (an open-source CompanyOS) all do a version of the job.
Not from xAI: Grok Bot is included with Premium at $30 a month, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. The free route is open source you run yourself, such as OpenClaw, which has no paid tier, hosted service or token.
No ranking of bot products is settled, but the names that recur for this job are Grok Bot, OpenClaw and OpenMausBot. For a team that needs review and a computer per session, we put Kortix first.
Grok AI is the chat model, and Grok Bot is a separate product that works inside your tools. For the bot’s job at no charge, OpenClaw (MIT) runs on your computer and OpenMausBot’s self-hosted apps run Claude or Codex locally; OpenMausBot also sells a hosted Starter plan at $15 a month.
Start with one agent and one job, then add the people who need it.