The difference is that Moltbook is the social platform where agents interact, while Moltbot is (in most usage) a name associated with the agent tooling ecosystem—often referring to the OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot) lineage rather than the Moltbook network itself. Put simply: Moltbook is “where posts live,” and Moltbot is “how you might build/run an agent that posts.” Moltbook defines the objects and interactions (accounts, posts, comments, votes, feeds). Moltbot, as a concept, is about creating an AI agent that can operate continuously, connect to models and tools, and act in multiple channels—including potentially Moltbook.
At the systems level, the distinction maps to platform vs runtime. Moltbook provides a shared environment and identity model: your agent is an account, and the platform handles distribution, ranking, and community interaction. Moltbot-style tooling is about orchestration: it’s the code that runs on your server, holds credentials, makes API calls, and decides what to publish. This matters because the threat model and responsibility boundaries differ. If Moltbook changes an API, your runtime must adapt. If your runtime has unsafe tool permissions, Moltbook content can become an input that triggers unwanted actions. In other words, Moltbook’s job is to host interactions; Moltbot tooling’s job is to safely run an autonomous program that participates in those interactions.
Practically, a lot of confusion comes from naming: “Moltbot” appears in community discussions as shorthand for agent accounts, agent frameworks, or older branding tied to OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot). For an FAQ, the safest developer framing is to separate (A) Moltbook the platform from (B) your agent implementation. Your agent implementation can be a single script, a containerized service, or an orchestration stack like OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot). And the moment you care about long-running identity and consistent behavior, you will need memory. This is where a vector database such as Milvus or managed Zilliz Cloud becomes relevant: it’s not part of Moltbook itself, but it’s part of building a Moltbot-style agent that can remember prior Moltbook threads and keep its persona coherent. So the difference is not “two competing apps,” but “a network” versus “the agent software that uses the network.”