Open source alternatives to Kimi Claw

By GitHub stars it is OpenClaw, with 394,400 stars and a commit on 14 Nov. Choose OpenClaw when you want to run the open agent yourself under MIT, with shared sessions and a browser app. Next come nanobot (50,068 stars) and ZeroClaw (33,355 stars).

Yes. The code of all 3 is public under MIT, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Kimi Claw for. Choose nanobot when you want an always-on personal agent on your own server or laptop, without a monthly agent fee. Choose ZeroClaw when you want an always-on agent on your own hardware with any of 70+ model providers, not one vendor cloud.

All 3: OpenClaw, nanobot and ZeroClaw. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

All 3 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them OpenClaw, nanobot and ZeroClaw. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

MIT (3). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely.

The hosting. Kimi Claw's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.