Managed OpenClaw hosting compared: Hostinger, MyClaw, Cloudways and more
Nine OpenClaw hosts side by side from their own pages: price and term, model usage, who applies updates, backups, and what you still do yourself.
The lowest sticker prices are Agent37 at $3.99 a month, Cloudways at $4.99 and Hostinger at $5.99 (paid two years upfront), and none of them covers much of the AI model your agent thinks with: beyond Agent37’s $1 of monthly credits, you add your own key or buy credits. What separates the hosts more than price is what is still left to you: who applies OpenClaw updates, whether backups are documented, whether the agent gets a machine of its own, and whether you manage it from an app built for it or from a hosting panel shared with dozens of other products. All figures below are from each host’s own pages on 3 October 2026; Everpod is ours.
Price, and who pays for the model
| Host | From | Billing | AI model usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger | $5.99/mo for 24 months, then $11.99 | Paid upfront | Credits extra, or your own key |
| MyClaw | $29/mo | Monthly or yearly | Not included |
| Cloudways | $4.99/mo intro, then $9.99 | Hourly | Your own key |
| xCloud | $9.99 first month, then $19.99 | Monthly | Your own key |
| Blink Claw | A Blink plan from $13/mo; the agent is paid in credits | Monthly or yearly | Blink credits |
| Agent37 | $3.99/mo | Monthly | $1/mo of credits, or your own key |
| OneClickClaw | €14.99/mo plus VAT | Monthly or yearly | Not included |
| DigitalOcean 1-Click | $12/mo (2 GB); $24 for the size it recommends | Per second | Not included |
| Everpod | $29/mo, first month $14.50 | Monthly | Included up to a cap, or your own key |
Prices are in US dollars before tax unless marked. Introductory prices change often; check the host’s own page before you pay.
Updates and backups
| Host | OpenClaw updates | Backups |
|---|---|---|
| Hostinger | Automatic, plus an Update button | Promised, not documented for OpenClaw |
| MyClaw | Automatic, plus an upgrade button | Daily, restore documented |
| Cloudways | Tested before release | Daily, one-click restore |
| xCloud | Automatic or a button (its pages differ) | Daily or weekly (its pages differ) |
| Blink Claw | Automatic | None stated |
| Agent37 | Automatic | Operational only, “not a backup product” |
| OneClickClaw | Automatic, or pin a version | Weekly, kept 7 days |
| DigitalOcean 1-Click | You run a script | Paid add-on |
| Everpod | Applied for you after testing | Daily, restores tested |
What you still do yourself
Every host here sets up the computer and installs OpenClaw. The difference is what comes after. On most of them you bring the model: a key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter, or a ChatGPT sign-in, and the model bill arrives separately from the hosting bill with no cap from the host. You create the Telegram bot yourself in Telegram’s BotFather on all of them, and scan a QR code for WhatsApp where it is offered. Beyond that the range is wide: DigitalOcean’s 1-Click hands you a server you reach over SSH, and its own tutorial calls the agent being stuck unable to run commands after install “the most common issue”; Cloudways’ terms make you responsible for restricting network access to your agent; xCloud’s setup guide says that “everything beyond server provisioning and installation remains your responsibility”. If you are not a developer, the column that matters most is the one no price table shows: how much of OpenClaw’s own setup you will meet in a terminal or a config file.
Where you manage it
Hostinger, Cloudways, xCloud and DigitalOcean sell many hosting products, and OpenClaw lives in the same control panel as their web hosting, domains, WordPress and servers, in the same vocabulary: environment variables, gateway tokens, logs, vCPUs. MyClaw and OneClickClaw are single-purpose, though OneClickClaw’s dashboard is a server’s (IP address, CPU graph, SSH keys). Blink Claw lives inside an AI app builder. No host has a phone app for the agent; everyone reaches theirs through a chat app and a web dashboard, so check that the dashboard works on your phone before you commit.
Host by host
Hostinger Managed OpenClaw
The one AI assistants recommend most often, and the one in OpenClaw’s own hosting docs. It is now one slot in Hostinger’s “AI automation apps” plan, which runs OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, n8n or Paperclip, one at a time. You get a dedicated Docker container, no server access, and a command line inside OpenClaw; Hostinger says it handles testing and updates, while its own management guide also shows an Update button. The model is paid for separately: the checkout adds 10 credits for $11.99, ticked by default, and the agent stops answering when they run out until you top up; your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or xAI key, or a ChatGPT sign-in, works instead. The plan page lists 24 months at $5.99 a month, 12 at $7.99 and a single month at $10.99, all paid upfront, and each renews at its own price ($11.99, $13.99 and $21.99 a month); there is a 30-day money-back guarantee, from which credits are deducted. Its pages disagree on some basics: Discord is listed as supported and, in the setup guide, as “under development”, and backups are promised but not documented for OpenClaw. What a non-developer meets on Hostinger covers it in full.
MyClaw (myclaw.ai)
A single-purpose OpenClaw host from Cubo World Inc., which also runs Hermes, Claude Code and Codex. The Lite plan is $29 a month or $199 a year, with model usage paid separately (pay-as-you-go through MyClaw, or your own key). It is the only host here that documents importing an official OpenClaw backup, so an agent from a Mac mini can move in whole. Daily backups, a manual backup button, and a restore guide. Its refund terms appear four different ways across its pages. Not to be confused with myclaw.host, a separate company that names no legal entity and does not say it runs OpenClaw.
Cloudways
DigitalOcean’s managed-hosting brand. The OpenClaw plans start at $4.99 a month (Scout, 1 vCPU and 2 GB, shown as 50% off $9.99; how long the discount lasts is shown at signup), billed hourly with no term. It says it tests each OpenClaw release and holds back any with known regressions, and it keeps daily backups with a one-click restore. No model usage is included: “You must supply API keys.” WhatsApp and Slack are supported from the dashboard, Telegram by bot token, and other chat apps through a terminal. You manage it in the Cloudways panel shared with its web hosting.
xCloud
A server-management company for WordPress and other apps that also installs OpenClaw on a dedicated server: $9.99 for the first month on the 6 GB size, then $19.99 a month. You bring your own model key and Telegram bot. Its documentation still calls the product a beta and limits support to installation; the marketing page promises daily encrypted backups, while its general backup documentation describes weekly backups for an extra 20% of the server price. Its setup guide has you press “Check for Updates”, with a repair tool if an update goes wrong.
Blink Claw
OpenClaw inside Blink, an AI app builder. It needs a paid Blink plan ($25 a month, or $13 a month billed yearly), which comes with monthly credits; the agent’s machine runs on those credits (Blink puts the smallest at about $45 worth a month), model usage draws on the same balance, and auto-reload buys more by default. What the whole thing costs a month depends on how far the plan’s credits stretch, which Blink does not state. Updates are automatic. No backups are stated, and a deleted agent’s data “cannot be recovered”.
Agent37
The lowest monthly price here: $3.99 for the Basic plan (1 vCPU, 4 GB, 8 GB of storage) with $1 of model credits, or your own key or ChatGPT or Claude sign-in. It runs OpenClaw and five other agents in an isolated container, and updates roll out automatically. Chat apps are configured in files through a web terminal. Its terms say it keeps operational backups but “is not a backup product”, and offer a full refund in the first month.
OneClickClaw
A small European host that gives each agent a virtual server of its own: €14.99 a month plus VAT (€12.49 a month annually), model usage not included. It is the one host that lets you pin an OpenClaw version and snapshots the server before every update. Weekly backups are kept for seven days. Payments are final once the server is provisioned.
DigitalOcean 1-Click
Not managed hosting: a server image with OpenClaw preinstalled, a firewall and automatic operating-system updates, on a server you run. The size it recommends, 4 GB, is $24 a month; the smallest it suggests is $12. You connect over SSH to finish setup, run OpenClaw updates yourself with a script, and pay 20 to 30% extra for backups of the whole disk. OpenClaw’s own DigitalOcean guide does a manual install on a $6 server instead, and advises reviewing any marketplace image before you trust it. If you can run a server, the VPS guide covers the choice.
Everpod
A private pod for your OpenClaw agent: an always-on computer of its own, one customer per machine, with no incoming connections from the internet unless you switch on a public address for your agent, at $29 a month with the first month at $14.50, monthly, cancel anytime. Up to $10 of model usage a month is included, and when it runs out the agent pauses until the plan renews rather than running up a bill; your own provider key works with nothing added on top. Updates are applied for you after testing, and the pod is backed up every day. You manage it from pages built for the phone, which open OpenClaw’s own control panel already signed in, and you are walked through connecting your first chat app step by step.
Closed, and not what they seem
Three managed OpenClaw hosts have stopped: KiloClaw is closed to new users and ending (moving your agent off KiloClaw), Klaus shut on 1 September 2026, and American Claw is winding down. Moving OpenClaw to a new computer covers their owners too. BetterClaw ranks in many “best OpenClaw hosting” lists, but its own pages say it is not OpenClaw: it is a separate, closed-source agent that can import OpenClaw’s skills and memory files. Railway’s OpenClaw template is a community deploy template on a general app platform, closer to a VPS than to a managed host. OpenClaw itself sells no hosting, so anything called “OpenClaw Cloud” is a third party.
Questions worth asking before you pay
Most of what separates these hosts is missing from their pages, so ask. Who applies OpenClaw updates, and are they tested first? How often are backups taken, how long are they kept, and can you restore one yourself? Can an agent you already run come in from an OpenClaw backup, and leave the same way? What happens when model usage runs out: does the agent stop, or does the bill keep going? Is the machine yours alone? The explainer on what an OpenClaw host should manage says why each one matters, and managed hosting against self-hosting weighs the alternative of running it yourself.