Last verified on 26 April 2026. Pricing, features, and policies change – check the source if anything looks off.
Ostler: $49.99 + $24.99/mo – replaces $87/mo of cloud AI subscriptions.
MyClaw: $199–1,599/yr – cloud-hosted AI agent. You pay for their servers.
MyClaw gives you a managed cloud instance of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent. Ostler gives you a personal knowledge graph running on your own Mac. Both are AI assistants. They solve fundamentally different problems.
| Ostler | MyClaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Your data | Stays on your Mac | On MyClaw's cloud servers |
| AI inference | Local (Ollama) | Cloud (managed container) |
| Price | $49.99 once + $24.99/mo | $199-1,599/year |
| Works offline | Yes | No (cloud-hosted) |
| Relationship intelligence | Yes (warmth, reciprocity, history) | No |
| Multi-platform import | 20 platforms via GDPR | No GDPR import |
| Personal wiki | Auto-generated, 21 page types | No |
| Workflow automation | Via n8n (optional) | Core feature (browser control, APIs) |
| Open source | No | OpenClaw is open source |
| Hardware required | Your Mac (M1+, 16GB+) | None (cloud-hosted) |
| Independent security audit | Planned (pre-launch) | No |
MyClaw is a general-purpose AI agent. It can control your browser, manage files, send emails, scrape websites, and connect to 50+ integrations. It is a productivity automation tool hosted in the cloud. Think of it as a virtual employee that lives on someone else's server.
Ostler is a personal knowledge system. It imports your digital life from 20 platforms, builds a searchable knowledge graph of your relationships and history, generates a personal wiki, and runs an AI assistant that knows your life. It lives on your Mac.
If you want a bot that fills in forms and scrapes websites, MyClaw is more capable. If you want AI that knows who you had dinner with last March and can remind you of your friend's career history before a call, that is Ostler.
MyClaw runs in an isolated cloud container. They encrypt it. They back it up daily. It is a reasonable cloud security model. But your data – your conversations with the AI, your connected accounts, your automated workflows – lives on their infrastructure.
Ostler cannot access your data because there is no server to send it to. The databases are Docker containers on your Mac. The AI models run locally via Ollama. This is not a promise. It is architecture.
For general productivity automation, cloud hosting is fine. For personal relationship data, conversation transcripts, and 20 years of social media history, we think local-only is the right answer.
MyClaw's Lite plan is $199/year. Their Pro plan is $399/year. Their high-end plans go to $1,599/year and above. You are paying for cloud compute – CPU, RAM, and storage on their servers.
Ostler is $49.99 once for the Home AI Hub, plus $24.99/month for the living intelligence subscription. That is $349.87 in the first year – comparable to MyClaw Pro – but your compute runs on hardware you already own. And the $49.99 base product works forever, even if you cancel the subscription.
OpenClaw, the software behind MyClaw, is open source with 134,000+ stars. That is genuinely impressive, and the transparency is admirable. You could self-host OpenClaw and avoid MyClaw's fees entirely.
Ostler is not open source. We are commissioning an independent security audit before public launch. The trade-off: you cannot inspect our code, but your data never leaves your hardware regardless, which limits the attack surface to your own machine.
Do you want a cloud-hosted AI agent that automates workflows and controls your browser? Or do you want a local knowledge system that understands your relationships and life history? MyClaw is a powerful productivity tool. Ostler is a personal memory system. They barely overlap.