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

11 points by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 14 hours ago

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.)?

Not much as i am not leaving for days

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.

CjHuber - 7 hours ago

Does it not use prompt caching?

atemerev - 3 hours ago

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