OpenClawType the job and it runs in the tabs you already use
A companion opens the four supplier portals, pulls this month’s invoices and flags the two that changed price. Nothing to install but the browser, nothing to keep alive.
Download Strawberry on macOS or Windows, sign in, and the first job runs on credits that are already there. 93 native integrations carrying 1,257 hand-written operations sit behind the tools you live in, and a card stops every send, record change and payment.
The work happens in the sessions you are already signed into. No config file, no model key, no separate process. The supplier portal with no API is the same job as Gmail.
OpenClaw is the other deal. MIT licensed, run by a non-profit foundation, at 387,000 GitHub stars as of this writing, and its docs describe it as “a multi-channel gateway for AI agents that runs on any OS.” You host it, point it at one of the 35+ model providers it supports, and it answers you in WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and seven other channels.
| OpenClaw | Strawberry | |
|---|---|---|
| What you install | A self-hosted gateway, with Node 22.22.3+, 24.15+ or 25.9+ and a provider API key among the prerequisites (as of this writing) | A browser you download and sign into on Mac or Windows |
| Where it meets you | Chat channels its docs name: “Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and more” | A chat panel beside the tabs the companion is working |
| Acting inside accounts you are already signed into | Its documented tools include “Browser automation, exec, sandboxing”; whether that browser carries your sessions depends on how you wire it | The premise of the product: the browser holding your logins is the thing you installed |
| Connected accounts | Documented reach is tools rather than authorised accounts: browser automation, exec, files, cron, web search and fetch (as of this writing) | About a hundred accounts you connect, reads and staged writes, with a permission setting on each action |
| Recurring work | “Cron jobs and heartbeat scheduling”, per its docs, wired up by you | Routines created from chat or the routines page, on a time, an interval, a cron expression or an app trigger, with run history and credits per run |
| Approval before a consequential action | Tool policy and exec approvals you configure yourself, with its docs advising you to “treat inbound messages as untrusted input” | A card naming the exact action, and Ask Always mode in Settings → AI permissions for every step |
| Generated media | “Shared image generation and video generation capability surfaces”, per its docs | Images, video and music generated into the chat workspace, each on a card with the resulting file path |
| Who is on call when it breaks | You: the gateway process, the model bill, the channel tokens and the Node upgrade | Updates arrive with the browser and model access arrives as credits, so there is no separate process to keep alive |
What does OpenClaw give you?
A gateway you host plus a toolbox, and its docs are specific about both.
The prerequisites line is where the work lands. You pick the model, the channels, the tools an agent may touch and who may message it. Its own docs tell you to “treat inbound messages as untrusted input” before opening a DM channel to strangers.
- Channels its docs name by hand: Discord, Google Chat, iMessage, Matrix, Microsoft Teams, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp and Zalo, with more through plugins.
- Tools: exec, process and terminal, file read and write, web_search and web_fetch, a browser tool, cron, image and video generation.
- Models: 35+ providers as of this writing, self-hosted ones included.
- Licence: MIT, under the OpenClaw Foundation, a non-profit.
- Prerequisites: Node 22.22.3+, 24.15+ or 25.9+, plus an API key from whichever provider you pick.
Who is on call when it breaks?
Someone always is. With OpenClaw that someone is you.
With Strawberry you own the instruction and stop there.
- With OpenClaw: you own the gateway process, the model bill, the channel tokens, the upgrade when Node moves, and the security posture of anything you expose beyond your own network.
- With Strawberry: model access arrives as credits, updates arrive with the browser, and the browser is the process.
Where does the work happen?
A companion works the logged-in web, where the tedious half of most jobs sits: the supplier portal with no API, the applicant tracker, the ad account, the billing dashboard you open once a month. Native integrations cover Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Linear and Zoom. Everything else works because the tab is already signed in, and finished runs are at /real-runs.
OpenClaw runs on your machine and answers in your chat apps, and its browser tool can drive a page.
The first hour, on each
Same person, same Tuesday, same job: pull last month’s statements from three supplier portals and flag anything that changed price.
Those timings describe a shape rather than a benchmark. Our test method is public at /benchmarks/spec, and is being rebuilt so an outsider can rerun it monthly.
- Strawberry, 09:00: download, sign in, type the sentence.
- 09:06: three tabs open in front of you, already signed in, tables being read.
- 09:11: a list of what changed, with a link to the page each line came from.
- OpenClaw, 09:00: install, pick a provider, paste an API key, choose a channel, pair the device.
- 09:25: the first reply lands in Telegram.
- 09:40: ask for the statements, and you are reading up on the browser tool, exec approvals, and where downloaded files should go.
What each one costs
Strawberry arrives assembled: frontier models, the browser, the integrations and the approval layer, on one bill. Free to download with credits included, paid plans from $20/month.
OpenClaw’s licence costs nothing, and its model bill is whatever your provider charges at raw token prices once you have assembled and maintained the stack around it. The switcher’s version of this page is at OpenClaw alternative, and what the approval layer guarantees is at /security.
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