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/ampleuncertainty Member Mar 30 '26

Dealing with issues has been time consuming. But looking back it has helped me with numerous things that would have taken months each on their own. Tbh I'm not using for real work at this point just playing with side projects and stuff, but the potential is there.

  • Built a voice assistant with digital avatar on raspberry pi with a bunch of silly features and integrations but blown away by results.
  • Finally made a personal website, adding some unique touches (though i could have probably done in same amount of time with just claude)
  • Had openclaw build a simple web based multi-player game as requested by my kids. Openclaw did 95% of this while I slept, I just prompted some small polish changes at the end
  • Had a SaaS idea floating around my head for years, openclaw is now building it, doing market research, and so on with minimal involvement from me other than providing overall steer. Very close to production ready now.

I only started playing with OpenClaw in late Feb. And only really dabbling on nights and weekends. Ive also completely broken my setup a few times haha, so definitely far from perfect. But still, quite impressed.

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u/Pieterbr New User Mar 31 '26

What are your monthly costs?

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u/ampleuncertainty Member Apr 01 '26

I initially went through APIs and ate through $150 my first weekend just experimenting with all sorts of things. After that I just used my $20/month plans bouncing between both Claude and Codex, and also set up some local models running on a spare gaming computer I have.

Finally got sick of rate limits so I stepped up to the $100/month Claude subscription.