by Bharat Satsangi | Aug 24, 2026 | AI & Self-Hosting
For most personal setups, running OpenClaw costs between roughly $3 and $30 per month. The bill has three parts: hosting at $0–$5, LLM API tokens at $2–$25 depending on your model and usage, and messaging channels, which are free. Heavy browser automation or a...
by Bharat Satsangi | Aug 23, 2026 | AI & Self-Hosting
Yes — OpenClaw and n8n run comfortably together on a single VPS. A 2 vCPU / 4 GB box handles the pair for typical workloads, and the secure pattern is simpler than most guides make it: bind n8n to 127.0.0.1, let OpenClaw trigger workflows over the loopback interface,...
by Bharat Satsangi | Aug 4, 2026 | AI & Self-Hosting
Installing OpenClaw on a VPS securely takes about thirty minutes: harden the server first — SSH keys only, a firewall allowing nothing but SSH, a dedicated non-root user — then run the installer and keep the gateway and dashboard private rather than exposed to the...
by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 17, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Guides
GitHub works, until it doesn’t. The free tier is generous and the platform is woven into every developer’s muscle memory, so most of us never question it. Then the questions start arriving anyway: per-seat pricing that creeps up as your team grows,...
by Bharat Satsangi | Jun 14, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Guides
There was a time when deploying an app meant git push heroku main and walking away. Then Heroku killed its free tier, and the platforms that replaced it learned the same trick: Vercel, Railway, and the rest bill per seat and per usage, and the number on the invoice...