Every question about OpenClaw and The Clawd, answered

OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant that lives on your computer (or cloud) and has "eyes and hands" — it can browse the web, read your files, run commands, and chat with you on WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord. Unlike ChatGPT, it actually does things on your behalf. The Clawd is the managed-hosting version: we run it for you so you don't need to set it up.

You can install OpenClaw yourself on a VPS in 50+ minutes. You then maintain that VPS forever — security patches, dependency updates, certificate renewal, watchdog scripts. The Clawd does all of that for you. Same OpenClaw runtime, zero ops.

One plan: $17/mo billed annually (saves 40%) or $29/mo monthly. Includes all channels, all major AI models, $10 in monthly AI credits, daily backups, priority support, 14-day refund. No add-ons, no upsells, no "starter" plan that doesn't actually work.

All flagship models pre-wired: Claude 4.6 Sonnet, Claude 4.6 Opus, GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, Kimi K2.5, GLM-5.1. Switch per-message with /model. Bring your own API keys to override our credits if you want unlimited usage.

Out of the box: WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage. Microsoft Teams, Matrix, Zalo coming soon. All channels included on the single plan, no tier-gating.

No. Sign in with Google, paste your Telegram bot token (free, takes 20 seconds via @BotFather), click deploy. The whole setup is under a minute.

Each Clawd workspace runs in its own secure, isolated container. Your conversations, files, and credentials live in your dedicated workspace. Daily encrypted backups. Powered by jarvis.md — multi-instance, channel-scoped, never shared with other users. We're working on SOC 2 Type II (ETA Q3 2026).

Yes. The Clawd ships with $10/mo bundled AI credits, but you can swap in your own keys for unlimited usage. Configure in dashboard → API Keys. Costs at official rates from each provider.

Cancel anytime. Your workspace stays read-only for 30 days post-cancellation so you can export. After that, hard-deleted. We never sell data.

Yes — 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Cancel from the dashboard.

The single plan is one dedicated agent (one OpenClaw instance). Need multiple agents (e.g. one for personal, one for company)? Run multiple Clawd subscriptions, or contact us about fleet pricing.

Yes. Connect via OAuth in the dashboard. Your Clawd reads your biometric data and proactively nudges you (e.g. "Recovery low — moving your 9am to 2pm"). All processing happens in your isolated workspace.

The OpenClaw project is open-source, maintained by Peter Steinberger and community contributors. The Clawd is independent managed hosting — we run OpenClaw on dedicated infrastructure for paying customers, but we're not the project owner.

Yes. Pick your region during deploy. Currently: US-East (Virginia), US-West (Oregon), EU (Falkenstein), Asia (Singapore). More regions adding monthly.

Auto-restart watchdog wakes it up within 30 seconds. You get a Telegram alert if recovery takes longer than 2 minutes. Daily encrypted backups for full recovery. Uptime SLA: 99.9% on annual plans.

Yes. Switch to the Pro view — same plan, same price, includes clawd CLI, REST + gRPC API, TypeScript + Python SDK, webhook events, and a GitHub Action for deploy-on-push. All free, no extra tier needed.

We're a managed-hosting provider for OpenClaw. We don't directly fund the OpenClaw project, but our existence proves there's commercial demand for OpenClaw — which helps the project secure funding, contributors, and momentum. If you want to directly support OpenClaw, also star the repo and join the Discord.