Every pairing, weighed

Ten comparisons, one for each pair of agents, each ending with a plain recommendation.

Dots vs Muse

They share cartoon avatars and cloud computers, but one is built for the office and the other for the weekly shop.

Both work through the night in the cloud; the deciding factor is whether your working life sits inside Google or sprawls across many tools.

Both take long jobs off your hands, but one finishes by acting in your apps and the other by handing you a file.

The question is not which is cleverer but who keeps the machine running, patched and locked.

Two platform giants, two contrary wagers: one agent comes to your chats, the other stays at home inside Google's apps.

These two hardly compete: one looks after the shopping and the bookings, the other writes up the research.

Both cost nothing to start and both answer in WhatsApp; the difference is whose machine they live on.

Near-identical entry prices, very different temperaments: one tends a Google account around the clock, the other writes the report.

One agent is plugged straight into your Google account by Google; the other lives on a server you run, with any model you like.

OpenClaw can run on a Claude model, so the choice is less about intelligence than about who looks after the machinery.

The agents at a glance	Dots	Muse	Gemini Spark	Claude	OpenClaw
Keeps working when you log off Carries on with long or scheduled tasks after you close the app.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Yes
Takes the initiative Suggests or starts useful work without being asked.	Yes	Yes	Partly	No	Partly
Its own computer in the cloud Runs on a machine the provider hosts, not on your laptop.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	No
Lives in chat apps Reachable from messaging apps you already use.	Partly	Partly	No	No	Yes
Talks by voice You can speak to it and hear answers.	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly	Partly
Buys things Can complete purchases or bookings for you.	Partly	Yes	Partly	No	Partly
Standing rules Has a place for instructions that apply to every task.	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly	Yes
Choose the AI model Lets you decide which language model does the thinking.	No	No	No	No	Yes
Run it yourself Runs on a laptop, home server or rented machine that you control.	No	No	No	No	Yes
Free to start Has a free tier with the agent included.	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Built for teams Sold on business plans with admin controls.	Yes	Partly	Partly	Yes	Partly

A full dot means yes, a half dot means partly, an empty ring means no.