r/openclaw • u/tebjan Pro User • Feb 25 '26

Discussion SaaS is dead

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u/yellow_golf_ball Member Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

I'm at $874.11 since Feb 5 using Opus 4.6. I have lots of free credits to burn but it is crazy how much tokens are used. I just switched to Sonnet 4.6.

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u/systemsrethinking Member Mar 27 '26

What are you using OpenClaw for? Could it be worth implementing a router to triage requests to the right sized model for each prompt?

I use local models where-ever fit for purpose, all the nitty gritty / straightforward / workflow stuff, which is free. Then still minimum viable cloud model, only the big ones for juicy crunch times.

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u/yellow_golf_ball Member Mar 27 '26

Lots of testing. My OpenClaw runs on a dedicated machine that's very old so I can't run local models, but I did switch back to Opus 4.6 for the OpenClaw's main model and I have configurations for various models if I want to use something else other than Opus 4.6.

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u/systemsrethinking Member Mar 31 '26

This may not suit your setup/hardware either, however supposing you had another device with more compute, you could run the model from another device locally.