Getting started
Claws is managed hosting for AI agents. You pick a framework (OpenClaw by default), pick a model from the registry, and we spin up a live endpoint on our container host — all from the browser. No Docker, no VPS, no API keys to juggle.
Sign up with an email — that lands you in a workspace with $5 in free credits. No card required.
Choose OpenClaw or any of the pre-loaded recipes (Customer Copilot, Research Analyst, Growth Marketer, Internal Ops).
Hit deploy. Your agent is live in the console and reachable via API or your channels of choice.
Deploy an agent
From the console, click New Agent and give it a name. Pick a framework (OpenClaw for most, or any real open-source runtime — OpenHands, AutoGen, Letta, GPT Researcher, more). Add a persona, pick your primary model, hit deploy. That’s the whole flow.
- The agent gets its own container on our hosted infrastructure.
- You get a persistent URL, live logs and a chat pane in the console.
- Switch models with a dropdown at any time — no downtime, no code push.
See every supported framework and how we rank open-source agents.
Pick a model
Every model on Claws sits behind a single endpoint. We hold every provider account (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, Mistral, xAI, Alibaba, Microsoft…), rotate keys, and pass through OpenRouter’s live prices with a 6% markup — so switching from Claude to Gemini is a dropdown, not a rewrite.
GET https://claws.io/api/status
# 300+ models available — see /models for the live list.Browse the full catalog at /models. Rates and credit costs per model are on the pricing page.
Chat & channels
Talk to your agent right from the Claws console, or wire it into the app your users already have open. Every hosted agent supports:
Full chat pane in the workspace with streaming replies, persona files and secret vault.
Paste a bot token from BotFather. We handle the polling and reply back through the API.
Add the bot to a server with a permissions URL. Slash commands and DMs both work.
Install as a workspace app. Mentions in a channel trigger the agent, threads persist context.
Point an HTTPS URL at your agent. POST JSON, receive JSON. Signed with an HMAC secret.
OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Drop-in for anything that already speaks the OpenAI schema.
Credits & billing
Claws bills by usage in credits — 1 credit = $0.01 of model traffic. Every workspace lands with $5 in credits. Top up whenever from the billing page; bigger packs get a modest volume discount (see /pricing).
- Every request is metered by input and output tokens at the model’s live rate.
- Credits never expire. No seat licence, no monthly minimum.
- Watch your balance tick down in real time on the workspace dashboard.
Bring your own framework
OpenClaw is the default, but Claws hosts every major open-source agent framework we’ve vetted as containerisable: OpenHands, AutoGen, Letta, Agno, GPT Researcher, SuperAGI. See the registry at /agents.
You keep the framework’s native UI. We replace its model picker with ours, so you use the same unified endpoint and credit system across every runtime.
REST API
Every agent exposes an OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint. Grab an API key from the workspace and it drops in wherever the OpenAI SDK works.
curl https://claws.io/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "claude-sonnet-4-6",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
"stream": true
}'Full reference for models, streaming, tool calls and function schemas lives at /developers.
Support & status
Live component health, latency and uptime are at /status — auto-refreshed every 30 seconds against our real container host. If a check goes red, that page is the source of truth.
For questions the docs don’t cover, ping /support. Real engineers on-call, 8-minute average response, day or night.