Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included

Re:Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included by robthompson2018 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:48PM (#47337989)

Our average user spends $50 a month all-in (tokens and subscription). If you're budget conscious you can use a cheap model (eg Gemini Flash) or even a free one. I confess I am a snob and only use Claude Opus, but even using OpenClaw all day every day I only spend about $500 a month on tokens.

Orthogonal credits are used more frequently by power users. For everyday tasks they'll last a very long time, I don't think any of our users have run out.

Some example Orthogonal user cases:

* customers in sales uses Apollo to get contact info for leads

* I use Exa search to help me prepare for calls by getting background info on customers and businesses

* I used SearchAPI to help find AirBnbs.

Point taken on the copy! We made this writing more technical for the HackerNews audience and try to use less jargon on other platforms.

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Re:Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included by _joel on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:11PM (#47339863)

Your average user spends £50 a month? How long have you been running, just wondering since OpenClaw was only released (as openclaw) a month ago.

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Re:Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included by robthompson2018 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:04PM (#47340616)

We have been live since Feb 7.

Maybe $50 a month is an underestimate because our average user has been live for less than a month.

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Re:Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included by iJohnDoe on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:00PM (#47343589)

Thanks for giving real-world examples of your usage.

Do you think it’s worth $500 a month? Also, maybe tough to answer, does it seem like the token usage ($500 a month) would be equivalent if you did the same things using Claude or GPT directly?

My reason for asking is because I tried OpenClaw and a quick one-line test question used 10,000 tokens. I immediately deleted the whole thing.

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