Grok vs NanoClaw

Grok is a model and chatbot; NanoClaw is a small program that runs an AI agent on your own computer and answers you over WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and similar apps. They sit at different layers, so you might use one inside the other. NanoClaw is built around Claude, but through its OpenRouter skill it can be pointed at Grok models, which OpenRouter carries.

Grok is the model

xAI sells Grok two ways: a chat app with free and paid SuperGrok tiers, and a developer API. The API docs list grok-4.7 (500K context) at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output for prompts under 200K tokens, and grok-4.3 (1M context) at $1.25 and $2.50. Prompts at 200K or more cost double. Grok is closed and runs only on xAI's servers.

Our listing shows a "Grok Pro" plan at $168 a month. xAI's plans page wouldn't load for us, and third-party pricing guides from mid-2026 describe SuperGrok at about $30 a month and SuperGrok Heavy at about $300, with no plan by that name, so treat the $168 figure as unconfirmed.

NanoClaw is the agent around a model

NanoClaw is MIT-licensed and runs as one Node.js process (Node 22+ and pnpm, which the installer adds) on macOS, Linux, or Windows through WSL2. Each agent runs inside a Docker container that only sees the folders you mount, which is its main pitch against bigger projects like OpenClaw.

It uses Claude through Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK by default, and Claude Code is needed for its setup and customization commands. Skills add Codex, OpenCode (for OpenRouter, Google, DeepSeek and others) and local models through Ollama. Channels are added the same way: WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams, iMessage, Matrix, Google Chat, WeChat, email and more. The software is free; you pay whichever model provider it calls.