OpenClaw hosting

Your always-on personal AI assistant, running 24/7 on a server you control.

AI assistants & chatMITfrom $9.99/mo

In short

OpenClaw hosting at AIHostBox means a dedicated, single-tenant OpenClaw instance on our infrastructure: we install it, pin it to a reviewed release, put it behind TLS on your domain, back it up nightly and keep it patched. Plans start at $9.99 per month and the admin account, the data and any API keys are yours.

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OpenClaw is the open-source personal AI assistant that broke out in early 2026 (you may have met it as Clawdbot or Moltbot). It runs a small always-on gateway that connects the model of your choice — Claude, GPT or a local model — to the places you actually live: WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack and email. It browses, runs skills, manages files and acts on schedules, which is precisely why it cannot live on your laptop: the moment the lid closes, your assistant is gone.

That gateway is a natural fit for a small managed server. We keep the process online around the clock on dedicated CPU cores with NVMe storage, restart it if it crashes, and give you SFTP access to the workspace plus a console for logs. You bring your own model key and pairing codes; uptime and updates are our job. The arithmetic is the other half of the argument: OpenClaw’s official cloud is $49/month, a dedicated managed instance here starts at $9.99.

OpenClaw hosting plans

StarterAssistant + chat bridges

4 GB RAM · 2 vCPU · NVMe

$9.99/mo

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ProWith browser automation

8 GB RAM · 4 vCPU · NVMe

$16.99/mo

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Every plan is a dedicated single-tenant instance with NVMe storage, nightly off-box backups, TLS and managed patching. Quarterly, semi-annual and annual terms are discounted at checkout. Model tokens are not included — you bring your own key.

What people run OpenClaw for

Personal chief-of-staff

Triage email, draft replies and manage your calendar from the messenger you already use.

Home & business automations

Let it watch feeds, scrape pages, file invoices and ping you when something needs a human.

Always-on coding agent

Kick off long-running tasks from your phone and collect the results when they finish.

Shared team assistant

Bridge one assistant into a group chat with per-contact rules.

How OpenClaw hosting compares

Option	Price	What you get
OpenClaw Cloud (official)	$49/mo	The project's own hosted service — the convenient default, at five times the price.
Elestio	from $16/mo	Managed, but priced per vCPU and per GB on top of the infrastructure cost.
DIY VPS	$3.79–4.95/mo	Cheapest on paper. You own the install, the updates, the restarts and the 3am pager.
AIHostBox	from $9.99/mo	Dedicated single-tenant instance, managed updates and backups.

Bring your own model key on every option here — none of these prices include Anthropic or OpenAI tokens.

Prices verified September 2026 and may have changed since.

Licence and version policy

Item	Position
Upstream licence	MIT
Sold as managed hosting	Yes
Tenancy	Single tenant — one customer per instance
Patching	Critical advisories within 24 hours, high severity within 72

Our full position on licences, including the applications we decline to sell, is on the licensing page.

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How it works

Three steps, no Docker knowledge required

Pick the app and the size

Choose memory and storage from the plan table. Every plan is a single-tenant instance with its own volume, its own configuration and its own admin account.

We deploy and harden it

TLS on your domain or ours, firewall, a version pinned to a reviewed release, nightly off-box backups and isolated secrets.

You log in and build

The admin account is yours. Add your API keys, invite your team, export your data whenever you want. Patching stays with us.

Questions

OpenClaw hosting: your questions

What do I actually need to run OpenClaw?

Three things: this server (the always-on gateway), a model API key from Anthropic or OpenAI — or a local model endpoint — and the chat app you want to bridge. The console lets you run the pairing commands the first time.

Does the price include the AI model?

No. OpenClaw is bring-your-own-key: you pay Anthropic or OpenAI directly, or point it at a local model, so you control spend and we never mark up tokens.

Why not run it on my own PC?

It works until sleep, reboots, IP changes or an OS update take it down. A hosted gateway answers messages at 3am, fires schedules on time and keeps pairing alive across restarts.

How does this compare to OpenClaw Cloud?

Same software, different economics. The official cloud is $49/mo; here you get a dedicated managed instance from $9.99/mo with file access and no lock-in.

Is this a shared account or my own instance?

Your own. Every plan is a single-tenant instance with its own storage, its own configuration and its own admin account. Nobody else’s workload runs inside it, and nothing you store is pooled with other customers.

Do I have to know Docker?

No. We install the application, put it behind TLS on your domain or a subdomain of ours, and hand you the login. If you do want shell-level access to your data we provide SFTP; you are never required to use it.

What is included in the monthly price?

The instance, the storage, the bandwidth, nightly off-box backups, monitoring, security patching and human support. Model tokens are not included — you bring your own provider key, so there is no markup on usage.

Can I move to a bigger plan later?

Yes, resizing is an in-place upgrade and your data stays where it is. If you outgrow the catalogue entirely we will help you export everything.

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