Fluf vs Grok Bot: choose where your team works
A local team with your choice of AI connections, or hosted work through Grok Bot. Start with the operating model.
Fluf and Grok Bot at a glance
| Fluf | Grok Bot | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your bots run | On your computer: Mac and Windows (Linux in release testing) | In xAI's cloud: bots share one account computer and keep working while your devices are closed |
| Models | Any API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, OpenRouter), or your installed Claude Code / Codex CLI with your own login | Managed by xAI, no model picker documented |
| Team structure | Businesses, departments and teams, with manager bots and a chief of staff | Named bots, group chats and team bots shared by several people |
The useful question is simple: where should your AI team work, and how do you want to run it?
Fluf gives you a team on your computer. You connect the AI, give the bots roles and organise the work around your business. Grok Bot is a serious alternative for delegated work. The decision starts with execution and control, not with which character looks friendlier.
What Grok Bot offers
Grok Bot’s current product page describes persistent cloud execution, parallel bots, shared work and approvals. It also describes routines learned from demonstrated workflows. Its bots share a persistent computer per user. That means running work while your laptop is closed is a real reason to consider it. Source: Grok Bot.
What Fluf puts in your hands
Fluf runs bots on your own computer. Start with API keys from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or OpenRouter. Pick a connection and model per bot. Or let Fluf run your installed Codex or Claude Code, each signed in with your own login on your computer.
Build a workspace with businesses, departments and teams. Give managers reports. Read the bot-to-bot conversations behind a handoff. Inspect saved memory, build skills and schedule routines. Give your team recognisable faces from the family of fifty Flufs.
Model choice is a working decision. Put a research job on the model that suits it, then choose a different connected model for another job. A switch keeps the bot’s saved conversation; it does not remove the next model’s context limit.
Where Fluf pulls ahead
Hosted bots are convenient. Fluf is for owners who want the team inside their own business, under their own rules.
- Any model, per bot. Strategy on one model, code on another, chores on a fast cheap one. Switch mid-conversation and the bot keeps its name, memory and full history.
- An org chart, not a chat list. Each business has a main bot, each department a manager and one chief of staff sees everything. Rules you set at the top flow down.
- Nothing happens behind your back. Read every bot-to-bot conversation. Anything that sends, spends, deletes or publishes waits in Needs you for your call.
- Memory you can edit. Open the Library, read what a bot remembers about your business and fix or delete any item.
- Your apps, your rules. Computer use lets a bot work through apps that have no API, with allow, ask or never per app. Take over with one click.
- No credits in between. Fluf never resells AI. Usage goes straight to your provider, and you can see the tokens each bot spends.
Be clear about the bill
A Fluf plan and AI provider usage are separate costs. Your key’s provider can charge for every run, including background work. Compare a whole representative task, not one app’s monthly fee against another product’s combined service.
Take a task you already do each week. Record the brief, time to a usable result, model usage, correction work and any failed steps. That tells you more than a claim about unlimited productivity.
Choose the operating model you want
Choose Fluf when you want a local team, your own model connections and a visible business structure. Keep your computer awake and Fluf running for local work, routines and Telegram replies. Computer use works on Mac and Windows; Linux is in release testing.
If off-laptop hosted execution is your deciding requirement today, evaluate Grok Bot on that basis. Fluf does not sell a future capability as a current one.
Cloud is coming very soon: your bots will run in the cloud with their own computer.
Download Fluf and give the team one real job. Read Connections before choosing how to pay for model usage.
Comparison checked October 21, 2026. Competitor capabilities and terms can change. This article compares product direction and operating models, not benchmarked task performance. Fluf is independent of xAI.
Questions people ask
- Where does Grok Bot run?
- In xAI's cloud. Its documentation describes persistent named bots that share one account computer and keep working while your own devices are closed.
- Where do Fluf bots run?
- On your own Mac or Windows computer (Linux is in release testing). Keep it awake with Fluf running for tasks, routines and Telegram replies. Cloud is coming very soon: your bots will run in the cloud with their own computer.
- Can I choose the model in Fluf?
- Yes. Connect API keys from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or OpenRouter and pick a connection and model for each bot. A model switch keeps the bot's saved conversation.
- How do the costs compare?
- A Fluf plan and your AI provider usage are separate costs, and your provider bills every run. Compare a whole representative task, not one monthly fee against another product's bundled service.
Sources
- Grok Bot, checked October 21, 2026
