u/Ptizzl

Am I doing it wrong, or is using OpenClaw just super expensive?

Hey there. I wanted to experiment with what I have before investing into anything else and boy am I glad so far that I did.

I set it up on a Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB and the chat speed seems fine. I hooked up my Anthropic API key and I had my new agent help build a tracker for me. Health log (meals, exercise, stress, symptoms) and then went to build an inventory log for things I wanted to keep track of and I ran out of tokens. It cost me $5 in tokens in about an hour of asking it to do stuff. I know it was sending the entire history each time, so the messages get incrementally expensive. I even did a /new command on telegram to start over because I noticed it creeping up quickly on the API page for Claude.

Did I set this up just super wrong? Or is it a token hog?

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u/Ptizzl — 22 hours ago