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OpenClaw
✓ verifiedFree
Open-source self-hosted assistant with system access via chat apps; real project.
👁 7.7M/mo
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BlackBox AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding agent with code completion and app building; very high traffic and adoption.
👁 3.9M/mo
Pricing
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Basic: Free
Pro Teams: $12/member/mo (yearly)
Pro Personal: $18/member/mo (yearly)
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PRO: $14.99
Business: $19.99
Ultimate: $99.99
Core features
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- ✦AI Agents
- ✦Conversation Builder
- ✦Campaign Manager
- ✦Omnichannel Messaging
- ✦Integrations
- ✦AI Meeting Note Taker
- ✦Screen Recorder
- ✦Automated Summaries and Action Items
- ✦Rich Commenting on Recordings
- ✦Integration with Meeting Platforms
- ✦Async Video Communication
- ✦Open-source and Self-Hosted (Infrastructure you control)
- ✦Full System Access (Read/write files, run shell commands, execute scripts)
- ✦Persistent Memory (Remembers context, preferences, and persona 24/7)
- ✦Cross-Platform Chat Integration (Works on WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, etc.)
- ✦Proactive AF (Cron jobs, reminders, background tasks)
- ✦Browser Control (Browse the web, fill forms, extract data)
- ✦AI-powered code completion
- ✦App building capabilities
- ✦Integration with VSCode
- ✦Image to App conversion
- ✦Autonomous Coding Agent
- ✦Web IDE & Integrations to All Local IDEs
- ✦Figma To Code
- ✦Deep Research
- ✦Multi-Task Coding Agent
- ✦Reasoning
Use cases
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- →Automate customer acquisition and support with AI-powered chatbots.
- →Manage and scale click-to-chat ads.
- →Personalize conversations with unified customer profiles.
- →Send and receive multi-channel rich media & texts across countries.
- →Drive business growth by engaging contextually and enabling self-serve.
- →Automatically record and transcribe meetings.
- →Share feedback asynchronously on designs and websites.
- →Resolve ad-hoc questions without lengthy calls.
- →Check-in on projects without disrupting the team.
- →Collaborate with clients and vendors without complex setups.
- →Automating code tasks (running tests, capturing errors, opening PRs, managing Claude Code sessions).
- →Managing professional life (clearing inboxes, sending emails, managing calendars, doing taxes, content pipelines).
- →Smart home control (discovering and confirming controls for devices like air purifiers).
- →Building custom tools and skills (building a flight querying CLI, automating Todoist, creating custom meditations).
- →Handling personal admin (submitting health reimbursements, finding doctor appointments, fighting insurance companies).
- →Software engineering
- →Data extraction
- →Text summarization
- →Real-time content moderation
- →Customer service bots
- →Data management systems
- →Multilingual chat
- →Captioning
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