Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?

15 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 5mo ago ↗ HN

Running OpenClaw with Anthrophic API and it burned through ~USD 50 in one day.

What are other OpenClaw users seeing? Anyone found effective ways to cut costs (model tiering, caching, etc.)?

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I found it far too expensive for Anthropic. Entire context of every conversation is sent each time you type anything. Switched to a local model running from Ollama. Not quite as smart as opus, but good enough for my needs.

atemerev 5mo ago ↗

Had to write my own agent which is better with token economy: https://lethe.gg

IhateAI 5mo ago ↗

I like your website design, but hate llms. Good luck.

Jeetu456 5mo ago ↗

Not much as i am not leaving for days

runjake 5mo ago ↗

My spend was similar. I only spent one day with it. Pretty neat but a security can of worms and I already do similar automations with Apple Shortcuts and APIs and the Apple Foundation models on-device. It's free and does a great job.

If I had the time and desire, I'd write up a little Swift app and an OpenClaw plugin to just use Apple Foundation models locally, by default. AFM still sucks for code, so proxy those requests out to Claude or Codex or whatever.