OpenClaw vs ChatGPT Work: the open-source option a team can own

What OpenClaw vs ChatGPT Work compares

ChatGPT Work is an agent OpenAI ships inside ChatGPT. It can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours, and turn a goal into finished work, and it runs on OpenAI's cloud (ChatGPT Work). OpenClaw is an open-source personal assistant that runs on your own computer and meets you in the chat apps you already use (OpenClaw on GitHub). One lives on a vendor's cloud, where the vendor sets the terms; the other is software on hardware you own.

The open-source alternative to ChatGPT Work

Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers. That is what separates it from both. ChatGPT Work holds your context inside OpenAI's product, and OpenClaw holds a personal configuration on one machine. Kortix holds a company's configuration in a repo that can be cloned, diffed, reviewed and rolled back. Any model provider with your own keys. Or the ChatGPT plan you already pay for.

What you keep when the vendor changes

ChatGPT Work settings, connected tools and context live inside ChatGPT. Kortix keeps those facts as files in a repo you own. Connector credentials are brokered server-side and never enter the machine. One isolated sandbox per session. Each session has its own isolated machine and branch.

Where the work runs

Run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network. Self-host is free. ChatGPT Work runs on OpenAI's cloud, and OpenClaw runs on the machine you point the Gateway at. A team that has to keep the work in its own infrastructure has one option of the three that fits.

The Kortix vs OpenClaw comparison covers the personal-assistant side. To stand this one up yourself, read self-hosting an OpenClaw alternative, OpenClaw alternatives for the wider field, and Kortix vs OpenClaw on this site.