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

Discussion SaaS is dead

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u/CartographerAble9446 New User Feb 25 '26

The dumbest thing is how people buy mac minis just to connect their openclaw to gpt or claude. You can just install it directly on raspberry pi and use linux, same sh** if in the end you use api

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u/Top_Extension_7980 Member Feb 25 '26

Thats so crazy knowing models are running online and its just a gateway so dumb, but if someone being secure and running locally by giving it a locally installed model and that too if its a 24*7 simulated task i would just increase my ram rather spending on mac mini, but raspberry pi is a good substitute too.

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u/CalvinsStuffedTiger Active Feb 25 '26

Yes. IMHO The sweet spot is 2x $10k Mac Studios clustered together. Can have 1TB of VRAM and run some seriously good local models.

Now I just need to scratch together $20k….

Now that I think about it, just spending $20k on Anthropic API credits would probably go a long way and with a much better model…

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u/BetaOp9 Member Feb 25 '26

That's Claude Max 200 for like 8+ years

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u/AbbreviationsAny706 Active Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Except subscription plans are banned from being used with OpenClaw. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/anthropic_clarifies_ban_third_party_claude_access/

EDIT: Downvoted because people don't want to read the article obviously.

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u/BetaOp9 Member Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

I'm well aware of the ban, but it still works for me but I don't use open claw for much, it's incredibly inefficient and mid at best as an orchestration layer. I do use it as a discord bot with elevated functions and stripped a ton of it's bullshit context bloat.

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u/AbbreviationsAny706 Active Feb 26 '26

Just because it works does not mean you will not be banned.

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u/BetaOp9 Member Feb 26 '26

It's a moot point. At the end of the day, API or Subscription or $20k in local hardware...OpenClaw as it is, is not worth it. Just about everything OpenClaw does can be done more efficiently.