ShipClawBYOK (Bring Your Own Key)
An arrangement where you supply your own Anthropic API key to a managed OpenClaw host. ShipClaw does NOT support BYOK — we manage the Anthropic relationship and bill credits at a flat rate.
BYOK stands for "bring your own key" — you supply your own Anthropic API key to a managed runtime, and the host charges you only for hosting overhead.
ShipClaw does not support BYOK. We hold the Anthropic relationship (Tier 4, prompt caching enabled, batch endpoints negotiated where useful) and bill you in credits at a single flat rate that already includes hosting, the stealth browser, the Telegram bridge, and the upgrade treadmill.
Why no BYOK: it shifts the trust boundary in the wrong direction (we'd be holding a high-trust key for you), it breaks our prompt-caching pool, and it makes support 10× harder when something goes wrong upstream.
If you specifically need BYOK, ClawBlitz and ClawInit both offer it.