Trust layer · reviewed Aug 2, 2026

What this is, and who runs it.

ClawClones tracks every serious OpenClaw alternative so you can reach a shortlist of three in minutes instead of an afternoon. It mixes hard repo facts with AI-written decision support, and marks which is which.

Measured

Repo metadata, releases, commit activity and other directly observable signals.

AI-written

Summaries, tradeoffs, compare verdicts and recommendation framing, always labelled as such.

Community

Reddit and public-web discussion, used as supporting evidence rather than as ground truth.

Where a project does not publish something clearly, the field staysunknown instead of being filled with confident guesswork. The FAQ covers the scoring, cadence and sources in detail.

Freshness

The cadence below is the target. The dates are what actually landed, measured from the data this page is built from.

Clone data

Target: refreshed nightly

Aug 17, 2026today

Ecosystem report

Target: regenerated weekly

Aug 16, 2026yesterday

This page

Target: reviewed monthly

Aug 2, 202615 days ago

Who

Built and maintained by Péter Cziczlavicz.

Bottom line

A fast decision layer, not your last due-diligence step.

The best outcome is that this site gets you to the right three candidates faster. After that, read the docs, inspect the repo, and test the deployment path that matters to you.

Nominate a clone

Add a new Claw

Paste a GitHub repository and tell us why it belongs on the tracker.

Opens a prefilled issue on GitHub — every nomination is public. Comfortable with a PR? Adding the repo to projects.json is faster.