molted vs grok bot: who owns the agent?
Grok Bot is xAI's always-on agent: a persistent cloud computer with a browser, a terminal and your files on it. It is good, and it is theirs. Their machine, their model, their memory, no way out.
Molted runs the same kind of always-on agent on the model you pick, in a container that is yours alone, on a config you can download and run somewhere else tomorrow.
The 30-second read.
Same job. The difference is what you keep.
Five things you give up.
Not features. Nobody switches over a feature list. These are the ones that are hard to get back.
Pick the brain.
An agent is a loop around a model, and models move every six weeks. Molted lets you point yours at hundreds of them through your own key, or plug in your own ChatGPT account, and change your mind on a Tuesday afternoon. Grok Bot is locked to xAI: when something better ships elsewhere, you wait, or you leave.
That is your whole life in there.
An always-on agent is not a chat window. To be useful it holds your mailbox, your calendar, your drive, your logged-in browser sessions, your files. So the real question is who is holding all of that. With Grok Bot the answer is one very large company, on a machine you cannot inspect, with a retention policy it does not publish, next to every other bot on your account. We are not an AI lab: nothing in your workspace trains a model of ours, because there is no model of ours.
The door stays unlocked.
Your agent is stock OpenClaw, not a private flavour of it, and its config is a folder of files you can read and download. Moving out means taking the folder and running OpenClaw against it on your own box. That is deliberate. We sell the boring part, the 3am restart, the patches, the backups, the thing nobody wants to own. If that stops being worth it, you should be able to leave in an afternoon.
One identity, one blast radius.
An agent that acts for you signs into your accounts, and the interesting question is how many agents share that signature. On Grok Bot every bot on your account borrows the same connection and writes from the same inbox: your outreach bot, your support bot and your personal mail are one blast radius, and one misbehaving bot takes the rest down with it. Molted gives the agent its own container and its own connected accounts. If something has to be cut off, you cut off one thing.
And when one agent is not enough.
Underneath molted.cloud sits molted.net, the infrastructure layer: fleets of agents, one API for the whole lifecycle, multiple regions, white-label, and your own servers if that is what your compliance needs. This dashboard is literally a customer of it, so what you are looking at is what you could build. Ask a frontier lab to come and install itself in your rack, and see what they say.
For a giant, an agent is one feature out of a hundred. For us it is the entire product.
It shows in the speed, in the price, and in the fact that what you tell us today is in production tomorrow. Selling agents at scale, or running them on your own terms? That part is molted.net.
Where grok bot wins.
A comparison page that only says nice things about itself is an ad. Here is what they do better than us.
Native apps, everywhere
macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, synced, still working while your laptop is shut. Molted lives in the browser.
A roster, not one agent
Named bots with their own jobs that hand work to each other is a genuinely good idea, and it is shipped.
Already paid for
If you are on SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra or Cursor Teams Premium, it is included. Hard to argue with free.
Frontier access, no keys
No provider account, no key rotation, no monthly ceiling to watch. It just runs.
So which one?
Take Grok Bot if
- You already pay for SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor Ultra
- You want native desktop and mobile apps today
- xAI models are the ones you want anyway
- You are fine with the agent being a tenant, not an asset
Take Molted if
- You want to choose the model, and change your mind later
- You would rather your key, your usage, your ceiling
- You want one isolated container, not a shared machine
- You want to be able to walk out with the whole thing
Straight answers.
Can I move my Molted agent to my own server?
Yes. The runtime is OpenClaw, which is open, and your workspace is a folder of files you can browse and download from the dashboard. Moving means taking that folder and running OpenClaw against it on your own machine. There is no proprietary format in the way.
Can Grok Bot run Claude, GPT or an open model?
No. Grok Bot is locked to xAI models. There is no bring-your-own-model and no bring-your-own-key.
Can I self-host Grok Bot?
No. The persistent computer your bots run on is provisioned and operated by xAI, and there is no published export of an agent or its memory.
Which models can I run on Molted?
Hundreds, through your own OpenRouter key, or your own ChatGPT account. You pick the one the agent thinks with, and you change it whenever you want.
Is Molted cheaper than Grok Bot?
Molted is $14/mo for the agent, plus whatever your own model key costs, which you control and can cap. Grok Bot has no stable standalone price: it is bundled into xAI's highest tiers, and the pricing has moved repeatedly since launch. The honest comparison is not the number, it is that one of the two bills is itemised and yours.
Do you train on my data?
No. We do not build models, so there is nothing to train. Your agent runs in its own container, and the model calls go out on the key you chose.
Pick your plan.
No credits, no meter, no surprise bill. Not a single purpose bot, not a vertical AI agent: one agent takes on every job you hand it. You only add agents when you add people.
For owners & operators
Start
Your first AI employee, zero learning curve.
$14/mo
+$19/mo per extra agent
- One agent, unlimited missions
- Missions, schedules & connected tools
- Chat, email, phone & a real browser
- Managed & monitored 24/7
- Email support
The Start dashboard · built for this plan
For teams
Most pickedTeam
One agent per collaborator, and cheaper the bigger the team.
$39/mo
+$12/mo per extra agent
- One agent, unlimited missions
- Everything in Start
- Instances, files & runtime control
- Dedicated API + CLI
- Priority support
The Team dashboard · built for this plan
For agencies & resellers
Agency
Run fleets for your clients, cheapest agents at scale.
$99/mo
+$4/mo per extra agent
- One agent, unlimited missions
- Everything in Team
- Tenants: one fleet per client
- Agency API & consolidated billing
- Priority support
The Agency dashboard · built for this plan
For platforms & volume
Enterprise
Selling agents at scale, or running them on your own terms? That's molted.net.
Talk to molted.net- Volume & custom terms
- On-prem: your machines, our software
- Dedicated infrastructure, full isolation
- Data residency: EU or Swiss (GDPR, FADP)
- 99.9% SLA, credit-backed
- Advisory & direct access to our engineers
Every plan starts with 7 days on us: card on file, cancel in one click.
The hire it delays costs about $58,000 loaded per year. Your Molted: from $14/mo.
Your Molted could already be working.
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