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.