# OpenClaw Enterprise

Open source, vendor-neutral platform for managing persistent agents in sensitive environments

**Verdict: conditional.** OpenClaw Enterprise is a free, MIT-licensed control plane for deploying and governing persistent AI agents, self-hosted on Docker Compose or Kubernetes and developed with Red Hat and NVIDIA. Conditional because it is pre-1.0: its own announcement offers it for internal pilot workloads, with 1.0 expected later in 2026, and we have not run it. Suits platform and security teams piloting agents in sensitive environments; wait for 1.0 before production-critical rollouts. Last verified 2026-10-15.

OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE) is, in the project's words, an open source, vendor neutral platform for managing persistent agents in sensitive environments; its README and docs site describe it as the open source, vendor neutral platform for managing agents and add 'Think of it as Kubernetes for agents'. The README centres it on the OpenClaw Control Plane (OCC), which handles deploying and managing agents. The announcement, published September 29, 2026 on openclaw.ai by Kevin Lin, says it aims to give organizations whose IT departments restrict agent platforms a stronger common security, safety and governance standard, and lists multi-tenancy, hard boundaries between trusted and untrusted workloads with sandboxing, LLM-based reviews and fine-grained permissions, plus core primitives like the harness, model and sandbox that can be swapped out with third party solutions. It is self-hosted: Docker Compose for local setup or Kubernetes for deployment, and the repository's quickstart lists Docker or Podman, k3d, kubectl, Helm, Bash, Python 3, Go, Node.js 24+ and pnpm, with an OpenAI API key with access to the default model or a selected override needed to send model requests to the first deployed agent. The code is MIT licensed, copyright line OpenAI 2026, and the announcement says it will always be free for any organization to use. It began at OpenAI, was transferred to the OpenClaw Foundation, and was developed with Red Hat and NVIDIA. It is pre-1.0: the announcement offers it for internal pilot workloads and expects 1.0 later in 2026.

## Strengths

- Piloting persistent agents inside an organization that needs security and governance controls: the announcement lists multi-tenancy, hard boundaries between trusted and untrusted workloads, sandboxing, LLM-based reviews and fine-grained permissions
- Self-hosting with no licence cost: MIT licensed, and the announcement says it will always be free for any organization to use
- Running on infrastructure you already operate: Docker Compose for local setup, Kubernetes for deployment
- Swapping components: the announcement says core primitives like the harness, model and sandbox can be swapped out with third party solutions
- Production-critical rollouts today: the announcement offers it for internal pilot workloads and expects 1.0 later in 2026
- Teams wanting a hosted service: the pages we read describe self-hosting only and list no managed offering
- Quick evaluation on a laptop without container tooling: the README quickstart lists Docker or Podman, k3d, kubectl, Helm, Go, Node.js 24+ and pnpm
- Teams with no model API access: the README quickstart needs an OpenAI API key for the default model or a selected override to send requests to the first deployed agent

## Pricing

- Model: open-source
- Open source (MIT): $0

Website: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw-enterprise

## Sources

- [OpenClaw Enterprise README (official)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openclaw/openclaw-enterprise/main/README.md)
- [OpenClaw Enterprise docs (official)](https://docs-enterprise.openclaw.org)
- [OpenClaw Enterprise MIT licence (official)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openclaw/openclaw-enterprise/main/LICENSE)
- [OpenClaw Foundation: OpenClaw Enterprise announcement (Sep 29, 2026)](https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-enterprise)
- [openclaw-enterprise GitHub repository](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw-enterprise)

Canonical: https://neomanex.com/directory/openclaw-enterprise