Both are open source harness options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence.
Self-hosted gateway putting an agent in Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Discord and iMessage at once.
One Gateway process fans out to every channel plugin. Needs Node 22.22.3+ (26 recommended); the installer provisions it.
Open-source meta-harness that orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes and Pi from one session, on any device.
A common orchestration layer over other harnesses rather than a harness of its own — swap Claude Code/Codex/Cursor/etc. in and out, enforce policies, and run sessions in cloud sandboxes (Modal, Daytona, E2B and others).
| OpenClaw | Omnigent | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Open source | Open source |
| Pricing | open source | open source |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Yes |
| Languages | Any language | Any language |
| Install | curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash | curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omnigent-ai/omnigent/main/scripts/install_oss.sh | sh |
| Keys required | None | ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY |
Both are open source harness options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence. OpenClaw: Self-hosted gateway putting an agent in Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Discord and iMessage at once. Omnigent: Open-source meta-harness that orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes and Pi from one session, on any device.
OpenClaw can run on your own infrastructure. Omnigent can run on your own infrastructure.
OpenClaw is open source (open source). Omnigent is open source (open source).
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