GROX vs OpenBot
A free desktop app that runs a team of named agents on your own computer through the AI plans you already pay for. Here is how it compares with GROX — including where OpenBot is ahead.
Both do
- Messages that wait their turn while it is busy, and questions on the side while it works.
- A browser it uses, and routines that run from a webhook.
- A fallback when one AI provider is down, and voice you can interrupt.
Where GROX is different
- Approval before anything goes out. OpenBot's agents run with full access and no per-action approval.
- Works with the laptop closed — GROX runs in the cloud, with its own computer.
- Building and deploying sites and apps, and more than sixty connected apps.
- Nothing to install or host — it runs in your browser; GROX Desktop adds the folders on your own computer.
- Anything that sends, posts, pays or deletes waits for your approval first, on a card that says exactly what it will do.
- By default it only uses AI providers that agreed in writing not to train on what you send them.
- Bring your own AI keys on any plan, the free one included.
Where OpenBot is ahead
- It runs on the AI subscriptions you already have, so there may be nothing extra to pay.
- Apps for Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android.
- Several named agents that hand work to each other.
- You can host it yourself.
Price
GROX: Free to start with 300 credits and no card. One plan opens everything: $29 a month or $278 a year, with 2,000 credits every month; credits you buy never expire.
OpenBot: The desktop app is free; hosted EU servers are €20 / $25 a month (openbot.run, Oct 2026).
Checked 24 Oct 2026
What OpenBot does comes from Nightly Labs's own pages, as they were on that day. Products change — if something here is out of date, tell us at support@grox.life and we will fix it.
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