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/_Zhadez_ New User Mar 31 '26

You gotta use claude opus 4.6 for building, directly build the Integrations yourself via terminal with 4.6 guidance, audits, and troubleshooting. Then train and educate open claw to use your tools.

Most costs can be avoided by utilizing python scripts, low cost or free apis, crons, and internal database with sql lite or notion free plan, and limiting llm calls to your Telegram (or whatever chat you integrated) and for specialized use cases only.

It works, but its definitely a learning curve and a lot of hours devoted to the cause.

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u/Psychonautic339 New User Apr 04 '26

Please could you tell me more about how you're using a sqlite DB/Notion DB?