Kilo Claw: Hosted OpenClaw in 60 Seconds
161,000 GitHub stars. 25,000 forks. A lobster mascot. A community so passionate they just held their own conference in San Francisco.
If you haven’t been paying attention to OpenClaw, now’s the time.
In just a few months, Peter Steinberger’s open-source AI agent has become one of the fastest-growing projects in GitHub history. OpenClaw connects to 50+ chat platforms (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, you name it), gives your AI full system access to read files, run scripts, and control a browser, and remembers everything across sessions. It runs scheduled automations 24/7. It works with whatever model you want.
OpenClaw handles tasks I used to do manually. It can run things proactively on a schedule, do research for me, and even helped me write this blog pst.
Despite all that power, actually running OpenClaw is still a pain.
Self-Hosting
If you’ve set up OpenClaw yourself, you already know the drill. SSH into a VPS. Configure your environment. Juggle Node.js dependencies. Set up your API keys in plaintext config files scattered across your server. Hope nothing breaks at 3 AM when there’s no health monitoring to tell you it did.
And that’s the first time. Every update means SSH, git pull, restart, and cross your fingers. Experienced devs can get through it in 30-60 minutes. Everyone else hits a wall. It's the biggest barrier to adoption.
One of the most capable AI agents ever built still requires you to be a sysadmin to use it.
Why We Built Kilo Claw
At Kilo Code, we’ve spent the last year building infrastructure that serves over 1.4 million developers. Our Kilo Gateway already handles authentication, billing, model routing across 500+ AI models, and team management at scale. It processes trillions of tokens per month.
When we looked at the OpenClaw ecosystem, we saw a need. The hosted OpenClaw market is fragmented with a handful of startups spinning up VPS instances, most focused on a single chat platform, few with real infrastructure behind them. None with the model routing, billing, or enterprise features already in place. We extended what we'd already built.
And that became Kilo Claw, a fully managed, hosted OpenClaw service. You get a running OpenClaw instance in under 60 seconds. 🦞
What you get:
One-click deployment—from zero to running agent, fast
500+ AI models via Kilo Gateway, or bring your own API keys
Same Kilo account, same credits, same billing—if you already use Kilo Code, you’re set
Zero markup on AI tokens—same transparent pricing we’ve always offered (and free models included)
Scheduled automations that run while you sleep
If you’re already a Kilo Code user, there’s nothing new to set up. Your existing Kilo account, credits, and dashboard work out of the box. If you’re not, join the waitlist and we’ll get you in.
The Bigger Picture
We’ve been saying for a while that AI agents are moving beyond coding assistants. OpenClaw is proof. It’s an agent that lives in your chat apps, manages your files, browses the web, and runs automations on a schedule. It’s the kind of always-on AI presence that a year ago felt like science fiction.
The surrounding community is massive and growing fast…ClawCon just happened, and the ecosystem is exploding around it. And we think the best way to support that growth is to remove the biggest barrier to entry: the infrastructure.
Kilo Claw is built on the same battle-tested platform already serving over a million developers. Unified billing and unified account—same system you already use.
Join the Waitlist
Tired of SSH and config files? Sign up for early access at kilo.ai/kiloclaw.
We’ll be opening spots over the coming days and hope to launch to everyone early next week. Same transparent pricing you'd expect from us, with zero markup on tokens—just OpenClaw running without the headache.
🦞 See you on the other side.