| Calls itself | “An open-source digital employee for your business” | “The AI that really does things” | “An AI assistant that runs agents securely in their own containers”; a lightweight alternative to OpenClaw | “The agent that grows with you” |
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| Built by | MILAGPT | OpenClaw Foundation (Steinberger; sponsored by OpenAI) | NanoCo (Gavriel Cohen) | Nous Research |
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| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT | MIT | MIT |
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| GitHub stars (17 Oct 2026) | — | ~392k | ~31k | ~255k |
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| Code | Python, shell; Telegram plugin in TypeScript (Bun) | TypeScript | TypeScript | Python |
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| Engine | Claude Code with your own Claude subscription | own agent loop, models as plugins | Claude Agent SDK (Claude Code), other models via skills | own agent loop, any model |
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| Telegram | yes — she lives there | yes | yes (via a skill) | yes |
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| Other channels | Telegram in depth instead of twenty channels on the surface; v1.3.0 adds outbound email (skills/mail-outbound): a letter starts as a draft and goes out after a tap in Telegram. Social posts via Zernio with your own key. Voice through Alice and the TV screen run on Milas we host; they are not in the open code | WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Teams, iMessage, Signal and 20+ more | WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Teams, iMessage, Matrix, email and more | Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Email, CLI |
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| Isolation | every Mila is a separate Linux user: secrets readable only by her (0600); the installer opens no ports. Milas we host each run in their own container: that is our hosting (rootless podman, a separate uid per Mila), and its code is not in the open repository. Deploy and payment keys stay on the host; each Mila sees only her own bot token. Risky shell commands are denied by policy; a broken policy means “ask”, never “allow” | sandbox off by default; tools run on the host | a container per agent group; keys via a gateway | 7 runtimes (local, Docker, SSH, Modal…) |
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| Outbound check | every message is checked before it leaves: wrong recipient, keys and tokens, another client’s name or chat title, server paths; if the check fails, nothing is sent. Live on Milas we host; being added to the self-host installer | no data | no data | no data |
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| Memory | remembers every conversation | Markdown: MEMORY.md, daily notes, “dreaming” | CLAUDE.md and memory per group | manages its own memory; FTS5, Honcho |
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| Skills | open skills; most are in Russian today, English is the first goal | ClawHub | /add-* skills | writes its own skills; agentskills.io |
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| Install | git clone, ./install/install.sh — or one chat with Mila Tashkent | one curl command | clone and a script; needs Docker | one curl command |
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| Built for | business: a digital employee with a job | personal; can be shared by a team | personal; NanoCo enterprise edition | personal; Hermes for Businesses |
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| Price | self-host free; or 3 days for $5, then $50/month | free; no hosted service | free; enterprise on request | free; Nous Portal $0–200/month, Hermes Cloud |
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| Human approvals | nothing goes out on your behalf on its own — you decide; decision cards | exec ask; Team preset (send, purchase, delete) | enterprise: approval workflows, audit | no data |
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| Spending limit | spending above the limit needs your approval | no data | no data | per-employee limit (Business) |
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| Multiple agents | a team of Milas: they hear each other by @name; a loop guard lets through at most 20 messages an hour from one bot | routing, sub-agents, new agent after approval | several isolated agents; “teammates” in Slack | sub-agents |
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| Promises and tasks | every promise is a record with a deadline; promises due today show up on every turn; “done” closes only with proof: a link, a file, a tool reply | no data | no data | no data |
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| Languages | answers in the guest’s language: Russian, Uzbek, English; transcribes Uzbek voice notes; Uzbek Latin → Cyrillic | no data | no data | no data |
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| Values | a constitution of 10 laws, read first; the secrecy law and the “no excuses” law are also enforced by the outbound check | no data | no data | no data |
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| Restarts | messages wait in a journal while the session restarts; nothing is lost, reminders come back too | no data | no data | no data |
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| Updates | updates with rollback: a nightly check, a backup before every install, automatic rollback if something breaks | no data | no data | no data |
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| Export | mila export / mila restore: one archive with a sha256 manifest, no secrets inside — if it finds one, the export stops | no data | no data | no data |
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| Setup help | Mila Tashkent starts your Mila in one chat; or a paid month with our team: server, security, your data — then your team runs it on its own | no hosted service | enterprise on request | Hermes Cloud (one-click hosting) |
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