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The AI that really does things. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way.

Open-source alternative toManus

Openclaw at a glance

Checked 19 Oct 2026

The AI that really does things. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. Added from the trending feed (owner) on 2026-10-19 with 392,499 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.

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How much of Manus does it replace?

Use it instead of paying for Manus?
Personal use
Confirmed: Yes
For a business
Unknown: Not checked Commercial use isn’t checked yet

1 of 6 jobs. Jobs and coverage selected by the owner; other facts still need checking.

No: Autonomous web browsing Not covered
No: Deep research reports Not covered
No: File and code tasks in a sandbox Not covered
No: Slides generated from a prompt Not covered
Partial: Scheduled agent tasks Partial replacement
No: Connectors to your apps Not covered

For autonomous web browsing, deep research reports, file and code tasks in a sandbox, slides generated from a prompt, connectors to your apps, see other Manus alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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QuestionAnswerSourceChecked
Runs on my machine? Confirmed: Yes, self-hosted gateway; hosted or local model providers github.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
Code licence Confirmed: MIT github.com · openclaw#license ↗ 2d ago
Model weights licence Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Commercial use Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Paid services needed? Partial: No OpenClaw paid tier; configured model/provider or hosting costs may apply github.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
Hardware Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Operating systems Confirmed: Windows, macOS and Linux installers github.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
Setup effort Partial: Installer and onboarding wizard; configure model access and channels github.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago

No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow Openclaw and we email you if its licence terms change.

Growth and activity in detail

Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.

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  • Actively maintained100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.

498+ people committing in the last 12 months · 15999 pull requests merged in 30 days · 5573 issues opened, 4501 closed in 30 days

Stars over time

Building history

-213 stars since 20 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.

  • Openclaw
392,899392,664 2026-10-202026-10-21 Tracked daily begins 2026-10-20Openclaw, 2026-10-20: 392,899 stars, trackedOpenclaw, 2026-10-21: 392,686 stars, tracked
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Tracked daily since 20 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.

Commits per week, last 52 weeks

active 12 of the last 12 weeks

Up 26% on the 12 weeks before.

Week of 26 Oct 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 2 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 9 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 16 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 23 Nov 2025: 285 commitsWeek of 30 Nov 2025: 252 commitsWeek of 7 Dec 2025: 815 commitsWeek of 14 Dec 2025: 630 commitsWeek of 21 Dec 2025: 363 commitsWeek of 28 Dec 2025: 565 commitsWeek of 4 Jan 2026: 1891 commitsWeek of 11 Jan 2026: 1619 commitsWeek of 18 Jan 2026: 1521 commitsWeek of 25 Jan 2026: 815 commitsWeek of 1 Feb 2026: 671 commitsWeek of 8 Feb 2026: 1544 commitsWeek of 15 Feb 2026: 3081 commitsWeek of 22 Feb 2026: 2320 commitsWeek of 1 Mar 2026: 2364 commitsWeek of 8 Mar 2026: 1783 commitsWeek of 15 Mar 2026: 1893 commitsWeek of 22 Mar 2026: 2675 commitsWeek of 29 Mar 2026: 3308 commitsWeek of 5 Apr 2026: 4017 commitsWeek of 12 Apr 2026: 1840 commitsWeek of 19 Apr 2026: 3585 commitsWeek of 26 Apr 2026: 4673 commitsWeek of 3 May 2026: 4164 commitsWeek of 10 May 2026: 5025 commitsWeek of 17 May 2026: 1989 commitsWeek of 24 May 2026: 3350 commitsWeek of 31 May 2026: 2694 commitsWeek of 7 Jun 2026: 1043 commitsWeek of 14 Jun 2026: 2417 commitsWeek of 21 Jun 2026: 1697 commitsWeek of 28 Jun 2026: 1830 commitsWeek of 5 Jul 2026: 3526 commitsWeek of 12 Jul 2026: 4710 commitsWeek of 19 Jul 2026: 1976 commitsWeek of 26 Jul 2026: 3235 commitsWeek of 2 Aug 2026: 2281 commitsWeek of 9 Aug 2026: 2710 commitsWeek of 16 Aug 2026: 2237 commitsWeek of 23 Aug 2026: 3505 commitsWeek of 30 Aug 2026: 3941 commitsWeek of 6 Sept 2026: 4911 commitsWeek of 13 Sept 2026: 4428 commitsWeek of 20 Sept 2026: 4086 commitsWeek of 27 Sept 2026: 3374 commitsWeek of 4 Oct 2026: 3081 commitsWeek of 11 Oct 2026: 5980 commitsWeek of 18 Oct 2026: 1593 commits OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSeptOct Busiest week: 5980 commits. Focus or tap a bar for its week.
Where these numbers come from
  • Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
  • Star history: counted every night since 20 Oct 2026.
  • Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
  • Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
  • Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.

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