BYOK is "bring your own key" — you supply the upstream API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) to the managed host, and the host charges you only the hosting overhead while you pay the model provider directly.

ShipClaw does not support BYOK. We hold the Anthropic relationship at our own quota tier (with prompt caching enabled) and bill in credits — $15 for 1500 credits at the base rate, with bonus credits at higher tiers. The credit price already includes hosting, the bundled stealth browser, the Telegram bridge, and upstream upgrades.

Why no BYOK: it shifts the trust boundary in the wrong direction (we'd be holding a high-value key on your behalf), it breaks our prompt-caching pool (so per-message cost goes up for everyone), and it makes incident triage 10× harder when something goes wrong upstream.

Several other managed-OpenClaw vendors offer BYOK if that's what you want — verify on each vendor's site, since the term is overloaded. Clawr.co advertises BYOK explicitly. ClawBlitz, ClawInit, OpenClaw Launch, and the rest expose pricing in different ways — confirm directly before assuming.