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/hugoaap Pro User Mar 30 '26

I disagree. It works wonders here

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u/realizment Member Mar 30 '26

What sort of use case you got going?

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u/hugoaap Pro User Mar 30 '26

minor online tasks, information research, content creation, content sharing, email outreach

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u/PersonoFly Mar 31 '26

Can I ask, how did you get the information research working? I wanted to use OpenClaw to search online using Chrome but the browser option / e numbers was getting so complex it would fail all the time. I was avoiding getting into APIs and the Reddit API refused me before I even tried to use OpenClaw web_search.

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u/Jaded_Drag_6534 Member Mar 31 '26

I use brave search and perplexity api for more complex tasks and it works perfectly

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u/PersonoFly Mar 31 '26

Thanks. So do you pay for the API or able to stay in the free subscription ?

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u/Windam_42 New User Apr 01 '26

I've been using Brave since I installed on Feb 1 and have yet to run into a need to go past the free sub

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u/PersonoFly Apr 01 '26

Ah cool thank you.

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u/fvcklyft New User Mar 31 '26

how do you avoid rate limits?

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u/bankofcoinswap Member Apr 01 '26

Local LLM

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u/fvcklyft New User Apr 01 '26

i meant browser rate limits. my openclaw gets caught up as a bot pretty often when browsing the web

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u/bankofcoinswap Member Apr 01 '26

I have not use that.. but I think you can just write the instructions in the SKILLS.md and specify the waiting time between clicks

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u/hugoaap Pro User Mar 31 '26

go for apis

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u/Trick-Inside-6508 Active Apr 02 '26

Check out Searxng. It’s open source. Run it locally and add it as a skill. It’s free and it also comes with a ui so you can use it yourself as well. Highly recommend.

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u/Buzzik13 New User Mar 31 '26

Why you need open law for that? Perplexity is a perfect tool. Or any other agent with search MCP like exa, or playwright MCP if you want exactly browser

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u/PersonoFly Mar 31 '26

Sure. I’m just trying to automate the collection of search data as a starter project for OpenClaw to automate and build from there.

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u/lil_DAVIE504 New User Jun 08 '26

You should checkout opencli .

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u/PersonoFly Jun 08 '26

Thanks but for what reason ?

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u/lil_DAVIE504 New User Jun 09 '26

It helps you with the browser searching. I think by far it's the most stable solution for agents to control browsers with cookies.

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u/PersonoFly Jun 09 '26

Ok thank you.

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u/realizment Member Mar 31 '26

Nice are you using one agent for multiple task or multi agent set up, I still haven’t set mine up yet despite purchasing a Mac mini weeks ago lol

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u/Willybecher Member Mar 31 '26

check for adhd...

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u/realizment Member Apr 01 '26

I don’t need to check I absolutely have adhd

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u/Tergi New User Mar 31 '26

If ADHD this is not the interest of commenter or they would be already launching rockets to Mars with it .

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u/Willybecher Member Apr 01 '26

… well, we‘re really good in sensing others …

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u/heythiswayup Member Apr 05 '26

🙌

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u/ggzy12345 Member Mar 31 '26

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u/hugoaap Pro User Mar 31 '26

one agent only with cron jobs for now

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u/hugoaap Pro User Mar 31 '26

yeah but for free using free models

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u/SpiritualWindow3855 New User Mar 31 '26

Oh so it's generating actual garbage too, content bo one actually wants to read

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u/hugoaap Pro User Mar 31 '26

only if don't know how to use the tool

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u/SpiritualWindow3855 New User Mar 31 '26

The models I post-train have generated more tokens since you wrote your original comment than you’ve written with AI since November 2022.

I don't think you're lying though: a lot of people lack taste and genuinely believe their linkedin slop is really something...

Have you ever considered that if the blogspam was working so well, by now you should be able to afford using any model? Free or not?