LobeHub vs OpenClaw

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

LobeHub

Workspace for building and running teams of AI agents

Free plan · from $9.9/mo

OpenClaw

Open-source personal AI agent you run yourself and message in chat

Free

Where they differ

LobeHub starts at $9.9 per month, billed yearly ($118.8); $12.9 billed monthly. OpenClaw is free.
OpenClaw also covers workflow automation.

In commonFree planWebmacOSWindowsLinuxiOSAndroidOpen sourceSelf-hostableChat assistantAI agents

	LobeHub	OpenClaw
Pricing	Free plan	Free
Starts at	$9.9 per month, billed yearly ($118.8); $12.9 billed monthly	Free
Free plan	LobeHub Cloud gives every registered user 500,000 credits a month with 15 MB of file storage; some models need a subscription. The community edition can be self-deployed at no cost.	The whole product is free and MIT licensed, with no paid version or hosted tier. You supply the machine it runs on and your own model access, which the model provider bills separately.
Free trial	None listed	None listed
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macOS
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Made by	LobeHub LLC	OpenClaw Foundation
Price read from	lobehub.com	openclaw.ai
Checked	Oct 9, 2026	Oct 5, 2026

LobeHub

People who want several agents working on scheduled tasks in the cloud
Reaching agents from Slack, Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp
Developers who want to self-deploy an agent workspace and use their own API keys

OpenClaw

LobeHub

Cloud usage is metered in credits that reset monthly; the Free plan's 500,000 credits are about 70 messages on GLM-5.3-Flash.
GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K3 are marked Subscription required on the Free plan.
The docs note that the desktop app is not fully offline: cloud models, sync and online tools still need a connection.
The code uses the LobeHub Community License, based on Apache 2.0: distributing a derivative work needs a commercial license.

OpenClaw

There is no hosted service: you install, run and update the Gateway yourself on a computer or server.
The software is free, but model usage is billed by whichever provider you connect, through an API key or an existing subscription.
The iOS and Android apps are companion nodes and need a Gateway running on another machine.
The macOS desktop app requires macOS 15 or later, and the Linux desktop app is x64 only.

LobeHub

Agent Builder: Describe the agent you need in a sentence and its name, role, skills and behavior are set up automatically, ready to use or to adjust.
Agent Groups: Several agents work on one task as a team: the system picks the agents for the job, runs them in parallel and iterates on the result.
Skills and MCP marketplaces: Agents are connected to skills and MCP servers from community marketplaces. The homepage counts more than 334,000 skills and 106,000 MCP servers.
Messaging channels: The docs cover channels for Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, iMessage, LINE, Lark, Feishu and QQ, so agents answer in the chat apps you already use.
Pages, schedules and projects: Pages are documents written with several agents in a shared context, scheduled tasks run agents at set times, and projects keep related work together.
Personal memory: Agents build a structured memory of how you work that you can read and edit. Agent Memory is listed on the Starter plan and above.

OpenClaw

Self-hosted Gateway: One Gateway process on your own machine or server handles sessions, routing and channel connections. Desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux install it for you.
Chat channels: Message the agent from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage and other channels, 29 in all, in direct messages and group chats.
Bring your own model: Works with hosted providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, with gateways such as OpenRouter, and with local models through Ollama or LM Studio.
Persistent memory: Remembers preferences, projects and people from one conversation to the next, with state stored on your machine rather than in a vendor cloud.
System access and sandboxing: Can browse the web, fill in forms, read and write files and run shell commands, with a choice between full access and a sandbox.
Skills, plugins and automation: Skills and plugins extend the agent, and it can write its own skills. Cron jobs, hooks and webhooks run work on a schedule or in response to events.

LobeHub

Free$0
500,000 credits a month, 15 MB of file storage, 100 vector entries, and email and community forum support.
Community EditionFree
The open-source edition, self-deployed with Docker or a cloud host under the LobeHub Community License and run on your own model API keys.
Starter$9.9
per month, billed yearly ($118.8); $12.9 billed monthly
5,000,000 credits a month, 1 GB of file storage, 5,000 vector entries, Agent Memory and early access to new models.
Premium$19.9
per month, billed yearly ($238.8); $24.9 billed monthly
15,000,000 credits a month, 2 GB of file storage, 10,000 vector entries and priority email support.
Ultimate$39.9
per month, billed yearly ($478.8); $49.9 billed monthly
35,000,000 credits a month, 4 GB of file storage, 20,000 vector entries and priority chat and email support.
Enterprise EditionCustom
Private deployment with a commercial license, brand theming, user management, self-hosted providers, private models and custom integration.

OpenClaw

OpenClaw (MIT licensed)Free
The complete product: Gateway, desktop and mobile apps, chat channels and plugins. Model usage is billed separately by the provider you connect.

LobeHub

Annual discount
20% off with yearly billing
The pricing page labels yearly billing as 20% off: Starter is $118.8 a year instead of $12.9 a month, Premium $238.8 instead of $24.9 and Ultimate $478.8 instead of $49.9.
Education
50% off for students and educators
The pricing FAQ offers eligible students and education institutions a 50% discount code, requested by email from a school address with proof of status.

OpenClaw

No public discounts listed.