Cut OpenClaw API Costs by 95%
OpenClaw is powerful, but the API costs can surprise you. A single agent running heartbeats every 30 minutes, handling a few cron jobs, and responding to messages on Telegram can easily generate $150-$600 per month in LLM API costs if you configure it carelessly. The problem is not the framework. The problem is that the default configuration most people copy from tutorials – Claude or GPT for everything, 30-minute heartbeats, bloated context files, no caching, no consideration of cheaper providers – is expensive. The good news: most of that cost is recoverable through mechanical changes that take an afternoon to implement. ...