Self-hosting OpenClaw is doable; running it for hundreds of users without crashing on Sunday at 2am is not. ShipClaw operates the OpenClaw runtime as a multi-tenant service so you can build the agent and forget about the box. We pick up the pager.
Memory leaks, runaway processes, Telegram webhook drift, Anthropic 5xx — you don't see them. The supervisor recycles, the proxy retries.
OpenClaw releases ship through our test fleet first, then roll across pool nodes. You get features without the migration.
ShipClaw is on Anthropic Tier 4. We hit Anthropic; you hit ShipClaw. No quota juggling, no per-key rate limits.
Container image, Node version, native deps, and the workspace layout (IDENTITY, AGENTS, HEARTBEAT, BOOTSTRAP) all preconfigured.
Each user gets a filesystem path, port stride, and process namespace separate from every other tenant on the box.
Per-agent webhook paths so multiple bots co-exist on one account. ShipClaw sets and clears the webhook with Telegram for you.
Calls go through our proxy. We pay Anthropic; you pay credits. No two-sided billing, no API key paste.
Bot tokens and any provider creds you upload are encrypted at rest in Postgres. Plaintext .env files do not exist on the runtime.
Installation, configuration, sandbox isolation, the stealth browser engine, Telegram webhook routing, OpenClaw runtime upgrades, the Anthropic Claude relationship, billing, secret encryption, and the process supervisor. The only thing you own is the agent persona (SOUL.md) and the channel tokens you choose to connect.
We ship a single OpenClaw image to Railway and roll the pool. You can't pin a version because that would defeat the managed promise — instead we test upgrades against the same agent fleet you're on before promoting them. If a release breaks something specific to your config, we roll back and re-cut.
The pool node's process manager respawns it on the next request, lazily. Crashes from out-of-memory get caught by the 1.5GB watchdog and recycled cleanly. Idle agents are torn down after 15 minutes (1 hour for Telegram-bound) so they don't squat memory waiting for traffic.
No — the OpenClaw runtime is upstream open source, but the multi-tenant gateway, atomic pool assignment, per-user sandbox layout, encrypted secret store, Anthropic proxy, and channel webhook adapters are ShipClaw's. Self-hosting OpenClaw gets you the brain; this gets you the operations.
Considering self-hosting instead? We wrote up the trade-off in ShipClaw vs self-hosting.
Every instance comes with a stealth browser engine, CAPTCHA bypass, and autonomous web actions built in. Your agent doesn't just talk — it browses, searches, and gets things done.
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