Sauna vs OpenClaw
OpenClaw you run. Sauna just runs.
Same idea: an agent with tools, memory, and a presence in your work. The difference is that you don't host, deploy, or maintain it. Sauna runs for you and your whole team out of the box, on every surface.
Weighing Sauna against OpenClaw? OpenClaw is the open-source agent you self-host and maintain. Sauna gives you the same kind of capable, tool-connected agent with nothing to host: managed, always current, multiplayer, and on every surface out of the box.
OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted agent — capable and private, with tools and memory, that you run and maintain on your own infrastructure with your own LLM keys.
The difference: All the capability. None of the servers, upgrades, or on-call.
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Built around your work.
Zero ops
Nothing to host or maintain
No servers, no upgrades, no on-call. Sauna runs as a service, so you use it instead of operating it.
Team-ready
Multiplayer from day one
Spaces, Brain Access, and Shared Folders let it work alongside your whole team, not just on your machine.
Open
Connect anything
Thousands of built-in apps, more than one account each, or your own tool added with an API key or MCP server.
In context
It knows your work, and acts on it.
Sauna remembers your projects and the people in them, connects to the tools your team runs, and finishes the task — across the web app, Slack, email, iMessage, and Superhuman.
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Questions, answered.
I like that OpenClaw is self-hosted. Why Sauna?
If you want to run and maintain your own agent, OpenClaw is a good choice. If you'd rather skip the hosting, patching, and on-call and give the whole team access, that's Sauna.
Can I still bring my own tools?
Yes. Thousands of apps are in the library, and you can connect anything else with an API key or MCP server, right from chat.
Is my data safe?
Sauna reads only what you connect, and acts only after you approve. Your workspace and its memory are yours, not training data.
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