Offivelle compared

How Offivelle stands next to the AI agents people ask us about — where each one is the better pick, with a source for every fact.

Muse Meta a personal agent with a mascot that runs errands for you from Meta’s cloud. Offivelle vs Muse → Dots OpenAI always-on work agents, each drawn as a named dot, running on OpenAI’s cloud computer. Offivelle vs Dots → Grok Bot xAI agents with their own cloud computer that use your apps, even ones without an API. Offivelle vs Grok Bot → OpenClaw the OpenClaw Foundation the popular open-source personal assistant you run on your own computer and talk to through chat apps. Offivelle vs OpenClaw → Hermes Agent Nous Research an open-source agent with a desktop app, hundreds of models and a small, curated memory. Offivelle vs Hermes Agent → Paperclip Paperclip Labs an open-source control panel that runs a company of coding agents with an org chart and budgets. Offivelle vs Paperclip → Claude Cowork Anthropic Claude’s own agent for files and tasks, on your Claude plan. Offivelle vs Claude Cowork → Gemini Spark Google Google’s always-on agent inside Gemini. Offivelle vs Gemini Spark → Manus Manus a cloud agent with its own computer and a free daily allowance. Offivelle vs Manus →

Side by side

Question	Offivelle	Muse	Dots	Grok Bot	OpenClaw	Hermes Agent	Paperclip	Claude Cowork	Gemini Spark	Manus
Price	Free app. Agents use your own ChatGPT plan (through Codex) or Claude plan (through Claude Code, which draws on your plan’s monthly agent credit, then extra usage), or free models on your Mac. Offivelle sells no AI credits.	Free tier, Power $20 a month or Maximum $100 a month, each with a weekly usage allowance.²	No free tier: the first dot comes with ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium.^{1, 2}	Comes with SuperGrok and paid Cursor plans: a weekly allowance, then pay per use.^{2, 3}	Free; you pay your AI provider.¹	Free software; Nous Research also sells hosted plans.^{1, 2}	Free and self-hosted; a cloud version is on the roadmap.¹	Paid Claude plans only.¹	Google AI Pro ($19.99 a month) or Ultra.¹	Free (300 credits a day), Pro $20 or $40 a month, Team $20 per seat.¹
Where you can get it	Every country. The app speaks 11 languages, and agents answer in yours.	United States and Canada only, for adults 18 and over.^{3, 4}	Not published	Not published	Anywhere.	Anywhere.	Anywhere.	Not published	Every country with Gemini except the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and Nigeria.²	Not published
Where it runs	Your Mac (macOS 13 or later). Chat and approvals from your phone through Telegram, or the phone app on your Wi-Fi or Tailscale. Your own Linux server with Docker. Windows is coming.	Meta’s cloud (“Muse Secure VM”). Apps for iPhone, Android, iPad and Mac, on the web and in WhatsApp; Windows announced.^{1, 3}	OpenAI’s cloud computer. Set up from the ChatGPT desktop app or the web; works in Slack and Microsoft Teams.¹	A cloud computer for each account; apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.⁴	Your own computer or server. Apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux; talks through WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Slack, Discord, Teams and more.¹	Your computer, Docker or a server over SSH. Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux; talks through Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp and Signal.^{1, 3}	Your own server: a Node server with a browser dashboard, or Docker.¹	Anthropic’s cloud by default for Pro and Max since October 6, 2026; your local files only while the desktop app is open. Mac, Windows, web, iPhone, Android and Chrome.^{1, 2}	Google’s cloud, around the clock. Phone app, Mac app and web.²	Manus’s cloud computer.²
Which AI does the work	Your choice: ChatGPT (through OpenAI’s Codex), Claude (through Anthropic’s Claude Code) or free local models through Ollama. Pick several and they back each other up.	Meta’s own model (Muse Spark). No choice of model, and no way to use a ChatGPT or Claude plan.¹	OpenAI’s model (GPT-6 Astra). No choice of model.¹	Not published	Any hosted or local model; ChatGPT sign-in works. Claude Pro and Max plans stopped covering third-party tools like it on April 4, 2026.^{1, 2, 3}	300+ models, plus local ones through Ollama and llama.cpp. ChatGPT sign-in works; Claude only through paid extra usage.^{1, 4}	Directs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Hermes, OpenClaw and others, on your own plans or keys.¹	Claude only, on your Claude plan.¹	Gemini only.²	Manus’s own system; no choice of model.²
One agent or a team	A team: a CEO who plans the work and hires from 46 roles in 13 departments. Several people can share a company, with roles from viewer to admin.	One personal agent. A small-business mode adds connections such as Shopify, QuickBooks and Meta ads.^{1, 6}	One dot per person for now; teams of dots are planned.¹	Several bots per person, and Team Bots for Teams and Enterprise plans (beta).⁵	A personal assistant; several agents can run, each with its own workspace.⁴	One agent that can start subagents; the Business plan shares credits across a team.^{1, 2}	A company: an org chart of agents with roles; several people and organizations.¹	One agent that can use subagents.²	Personal accounts only.²	A Team plan with single sign-on; its Cue app lets several agents share a goal.^{1, 2}
Your data and training	Stays on your Mac. Prompts go only to the AI you chose (nowhere, with a local model). Offivelle doesn’t train on it or show ads; anonymous usage counts only if you say yes.	Runs in Meta’s cloud. “Help improve our AI models” is on by default; you can turn it off.⁵	Runs on OpenAI’s cloud computer.¹	Needs cloud data storage; training follows your Cursor privacy settings.⁴	Stays on your machine; prompts go to the model provider you pick.¹	Stays where you run it; prompts go to the model provider you pick.¹	Stays on your server; prompts go to the agents’ providers.¹	On consumer plans you choose whether chats train models; business plans are excluded.³	Needs Keep Activity turned on.²	Opting out of training is listed as a Team-plan feature.¹
Memory you can see and edit	Yes: plain Markdown notes in a folder you own (an Obsidian vault, kept with git). Read, edit, move or delete them.	Yes: Memory.md, Soul.md and Identity.md can be viewed and edited, and “Download your Muse data” exports them.⁵	Not published	Keeps preferences and summaries; no documented way to view or edit them.⁴	Yes: plain Markdown files you can read and edit.⁶	Yes: MEMORY.md (about 2,200 characters) and USER.md (about 1,375), files you can edit.⁶	Not published	Not published	Not published	Not published
Open source	Yes: the code is published under AGPL-3.0 at launch.	No.	No.	No.	Yes: MIT, about 390k GitHub stars (Oct 8, 2026).¹	Yes: MIT, about 250k GitHub stars (Oct 8, 2026).¹	Yes: MIT, about 98k GitHub stars (Oct 8, 2026).¹	No.	No.	No.

Facts checked on October 8, 2026 from the public sources listed on each product’s page. Products change quickly: if something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll fix it. Product names are trademarks of their owners; Offivelle isn’t affiliated with any of them.