Updated February 2026 — Latest pricing
How Much Does OpenClaw Cost?
Complete Breakdown 2026
Calculate your total OpenClaw costs including hosting, API usage, and additional services. From free setups to enterprise-grade deployments.
$0/month
Free Tier
Oracle Cloud + Groq
$10/month
Light Usage
Budget VPS + API
$25/month
Typical Setup
Good hosting + Claude
$50+/month
Heavy Usage
Multiple agents + premium
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💸 Detailed Cost Breakdown
🖥️ Hosting Costs
Oracle Cloud (Free)
Free Forever
FREE
Hetzner
$4.5/mo
BoostedHost
$4.99/mo
Hostinger
$5.99/mo
DigitalOcean
$6/mo
Railway (Usage-based)
Usage-based
$5/mo
Recommendation: Start with Oracle Cloud free tier, upgrade to Hostinger for production.
🤖 API Costs
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Input: $3/1M tokens
Output: $15/1M tokens
Output: $15/1M tokens
GPT-4 Turbo
Input: $10/1M tokens
Output: $30/1M tokens
Output: $30/1M tokens
Groq Llama 3.1 70B
Input: $0.59/1M tokens
Output: $0.79/1M tokens
Output: $0.79/1M tokens
Free tier available
Typical usage: 50 messages/day = $5-15/month depending on provider.
⚙️ Additional Services
Telegram Premium Bot
FREE
Discord Premium
FREE
Custom Domain
$12/mo
SSL Certificate
FREE
Monitoring Service
$5/mo
Backup Service
$3/mo
Optional: Most services are free. Domain and monitoring recommended for production.
💡 Cost Optimization Tips
✅ Reduce API Costs
- • Use Groq for simple, fast responses
- • Implement response caching for repeated queries
- • Reduce context window size when possible
- • Use cheaper models for classification tasks
- • Batch API requests where applicable
- • Monitor usage with built-in analytics
✅ Reduce Hosting Costs
- • Start with Oracle Cloud free tier
- • Choose VPS over managed platforms for control
- • Use European providers (Hetzner) for better rates
- • Optimize Docker containers for lower memory usage
- • Use spot instances for development/testing
- • Consider annual billing for discounts
🔄 Alternative Strategies
- • Run locally for development/testing
- • Use local models (Ollama) for simple tasks
- • Share hosting costs with team/friends
- • Schedule agents to run only when needed
- • Use webhooks instead of polling
- • Implement intelligent routing between models
📊 Monitoring Costs
- • Set up API usage alerts
- • Monitor costs in OpenClaw dashboard
- • Track costs per agent/skill
- • Review monthly usage reports
- • Set budget limits where possible
- • Regular cost audits and optimization
🎯 Cost Optimization Strategy
Phase 1: Start with Oracle Cloud + Groq free tiers to learn and experiment ($0/month).
Phase 2: Upgrade to Hetzner VPS + Claude for better performance ($15-20/month).
Phase 3: Scale to premium hosting + multiple models for production ($30-50/month).
🎭 Common Usage Scenarios
🆓 Student / Learning
• Oracle Cloud (free)
• Groq free tier
• 20 messages/day
• Basic Telegram bot
$0/month
Setup Guide →💼 Small Business
• Hostinger VPS ($6)
• Claude API ($15)
• 100 messages/day
• Multiple channels
• Custom domain ($1)
$22/month
View Hosting →🏢 Enterprise
• DigitalOcean ($20)
• Multiple APIs ($50)
• 500+ messages/day
• Team collaboration
• Monitoring & backups ($8)
$78/month
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Choose the setup that fits your budget and requirements. You can always start small and scale up.