OpenBot vs Viktor: A Private, Local Alternative

OpenBot runs the provider tools you already use, with the plans you already pay for: Codex with your ChatGPT plan, Claude Code with your Claude plan, Gemini with your Google AI Pro or Ultra plan, Grok CLI with your Grok account or an xAI API key, Cursor CLI with your Cursor plan or a Cursor API key, and Cline with your Cline account. OpenCode runs free models, or your own model on any OpenAI-compatible server, also one on your computer. You choose the provider, the model and the reasoning effort for each agent. OpenBot is free for noncommercial use, so a busy month does not cost more.

Viktor offers models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, and an admin sets the default model for the workspace. You can also connect your own OpenRouter key; those models are billed to your OpenRouter account. You cannot use a ChatGPT or Claude plan that you already pay for. You pay in credits, shared by the whole workspace. You start with up to $100 in free credits. The Team plan starts at $50 a month for 20,000 credits and goes up to $50,000 a month for 20 million credits; Enterprise has custom prices. Viktor says that a quick Slack question uses about 50 to 100 credits, a deep research report 500 to 2,000, and a full project 2,000 to 5,000. Scheduled tasks use credits each time they run, and unused credits roll over for one month only.

OpenBot runs on the computer that hosts it. Agent workspaces, conversations and app data stay on that computer, so it must stay on while its agents work. Run it on a desktop or a server that stays on, and your agents keep working while your laptop is closed. If you do not want to keep a computer on, use a hosted OpenBot server. It is a Linux server in the EU (Germany, Finland or France), from €20 or $25 a month, and it keeps the workspaces and chats of its agents. Local-first is not offline: an agent that uses a hosted provider still sends its requests to that provider.

Viktor has its own computer in the cloud, where it writes and runs code. Its security page says that it is hosted on AWS in us-east-1, and that each workspace runs in a sandbox. No computer of yours must stay on. Data is in the US by default; EU data residency is only on Enterprise contracts.

OpenBot keeps workspaces, conversations, attachments and browser data in a SQLite database on the computer that runs it. OpenBot keeps no other copy. On a hosted OpenBot server, the database is on that server in the EU. An account holds your profile, team memberships, invitations, sign-in sessions, the settings that let devices find each other, and any agent templates that you publish. Product analytics, which never include chat content, are on by default and linked to your account when you sign in; you can turn them off in Settings.

Viktor's privacy policy says that it reads all messages in the Slack channels it joins, not only the messages that mention it, and that it can get up to about 90 days of earlier history when it joins. A user can give it wider search access, which can include private channels and direct messages. Data is stored with cloud providers in US regions, and the policy names more than 30 other services that process it. Viktor says that it does not train foundation models on your data, but it can use your data for small internal models, such as one that chooses the model for a task.

In OpenBot, each agent is a full coding agent: Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, Grok CLI, Cursor CLI, Cline or OpenCode, each with its own job, model and workspace. A lead agent can give parts of a task to other agents in a shared channel. You follow their work and step in when a decision needs you. When you move an agent to a different provider, it keeps its role, workspace and conversation. For a team of people, one computer runs the host and the others join it; the chats and files stay on the host.

Viktor is one AI coworker for the whole workspace. Everyone on the team mentions the same Viktor, it keeps one shared memory of the team, and every request uses the same pool of credits.

OpenBot agents show a draft before they send a message for you. They send it after you approve it, or when you or a routine that you set up tells them to send. Before a payment, an agent reads back the item, price and total and asks you to confirm. A new agent has Full access: it does not ask before it runs a command. Set an agent to Ask first, and that agent asks you first; you answer in the chat or from a notification on your phone.

Some built-in actions, such as joining a Slack channel, always need approval in Viktor. For each integration tool, an admin chooses if it runs on its own, needs approval, or never runs, and a user who can edit that tool can click Always approve (not in Microsoft Teams). Viktor's terms make you responsible for all messages and actions sent or taken through your account, and you must defend Viktor against third-party claims that come from any action it takes through a connected app under the permissions you set.

OpenBot agents use MCP servers, plugins from the OpenBot catalog, and the tools on the computer that runs them. They can also answer in Slack, Discord and Telegram. OpenBot has no SOC 2 report. On your own computer, your own security controls apply to your data.

Viktor connects to more than 9,800 apps and builds a custom integration for one it does not have. It has a SOC 2 Type 1 report; SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 are in progress. Enterprise adds SAML single sign-on, role-based access, audit logs and a DPA.