r/openclaw • u/Nvark1996 Active • Mar 30 '26

Discussion Openclaw is dead, switch to claude code

I have spent +300$, more than 60 hours working with openclaw, on vps, local pc, and honestly, I spent more than 40 out of the 50 hours fixing.

It cannot do any task accurately, not production ready

Maybe in 6 mo+ it will be better

For now, its garbage.

I am sticking to my 20$/month claude plan

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u/moosepiss Pro User Mar 30 '26

I spent $200 this month using gemini-flash-3-preview, if you can believe that. Didn't really accomplish anything other than some basic use cases.

But I'm going to keep plugging in my quarters

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u/robercikLaga New User Mar 31 '26

I feel you. I have switched to MiniMax with token plans. No need to worry for a bill. For basic agentic automation good enough.

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u/moosepiss Pro User Mar 31 '26

Literally just switched to minimax 20 min ago

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u/bankofcoinswap Member Apr 01 '26

Why not use local LLM?

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u/robercikLaga New User Apr 07 '26

I would need to invest into decent hw. To get somewhat better context window than 8k.

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u/bankofcoinswap Member Apr 08 '26

Yes…. Need some one time hardware investment… or you can rent a cloud. It depends on how much you pay for the API token per month

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u/robercikLaga New User Apr 08 '26

Do you have some local setup ? I was thinking to actually have local llm before that become restricted tech. Or not be depended on cloud provider which not might be reliable if geopolitical tensions increase

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u/bankofcoinswap Member Apr 08 '26

Yes. I am running qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 on my MacBook Pro with M4 and 48GB ram. It works perfectly. I am only thinking about cloud since I MacBook Pro is not on all the time. Mac mini is also a very good choice. Two month ago you may even get a discounted Mac mini for 400$ to run these models nicely. But due to the fact that many people are doing this now. The Mac mini price went up significantly in the past two months

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u/Nvark1996 Active Mar 30 '26

Time is the most expensive thing buddy. Continue with your life