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.

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#general· 21 members

Tal S.9:30 AM

@Sauna monitor the deploy and summarize what shipped. No setup, just go.

SaunaAPP9:30 AM

Watching the pipeline. I'll post when it's green.

Deploy is live. Here's what shipped, in plain English:

The agent without the ops.

OpenClaw is private and capable, and it's also a service you host yourself. You run it on your own machine, wire it up, patch it, and keep it alive. Sauna gives you the same kind of agent with none of that. There's no server, no upgrades, and no on-call. You sign in and it runs.

The difference

All the capability. None of the servers, upgrades, or on-call.

Lives in the stack you already run — and thousands more, or any MCP server.

OpenClaw (self-hosted)

Sauna

Setup

Install and host it on your own machine.

Upkeep

Yours to patch, scale, and keep running.

Managed for you, always current.

Surfaces

Wire up each chat app yourself.

Web, iMessage, Slack, email, Superhuman, built in.

Team

Personal, on your hardware.

Multiplayer: Spaces, Brain Access, Shared Folders.

Out of the box, for the whole team

No machine to babysit. It just works.

#ops· 11 members

Ravi P.1:05 PM

@Sauna we use a tool you don't support yet. Can you connect it?

SaunaAPP1:05 PM

It publishes an MCP server, so I can wire that up.

Opened a connect card. Paste the key and you're live:

Ravi P.1:06 PM

@Sauna done, key's in.

SaunaAPP1:06 PM

Connected. I can read and write to it now. Pulled your first project as a test, it works.

Connect anything, from chat

Thousands of apps in the library, plus anything you add with an API key or MCP server, set up in conversation. No config files, no redeploys.

↳Thread in #growth· 4 replies

Jamie M.5:40 PM

@Sauna every Monday 8am, send me last week's numbers.

SaunaAPP5:40 PM

Setting a recurring schedule.

Done. Recurring every Monday 8am, delivered to email.

Jamie M.5:41 PM

@Sauna make it iMessage instead of email.

SaunaAPP5:41 PM

Switched. You'll get it by iMessage every Monday 8am.

Recurring work, on a timer

Scheduled tasks run on their own and land in email or iMessage. There's no long-running service for you to keep alive.

A full pipeline, proven end-to-end: Sauna → Claude Code → GitHub → PR.

A self-hosting developer

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What Sauna does

The capability, minus the maintenance.

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.

Everywhere you already work

One coworker, on every surface you use.

Web app

Sessions, knowledge, and scheduled work in one tab.

iMessage

Text it. Voice notes, screenshots, replies in the thread.

Slack

DMs, channel mentions, full threads, a live Tasks panel.

Forward to hey@sauna.ai or CC it into any thread.

Superhuman

Tag Sauna in a comment and it picks up the thread.

Good to know

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.

Does it work for a team?

Yes. Spaces, Brain Access, and Shared Folders make it multiplayer out of the box.

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.

All the capability. None of the upkeep.

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