7 verified providers, curl-checked pricing as of 2026-04-30. We also flag the four LLM-hallucinated vendors that don’t actually exist — so you don’t lose an hour Googling them.
All seven vendors below are real, with live URLs as of 2026-04-30. Pricing strings copied verbatim from the vendor’s landing page. Where vendors didn’t state a fact on-page, the cell is left ambiguous instead of guessed.
| # | Vendor | Pricing | Setup | API key | Channels | Isolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ShipClaw | Free signup + 25 trial credits, $15 min top-up | 60 seconds | ShipClaw-managed | Telegram first-class; Discord/WhatsApp via OpenClaw adapters | Per-user sandbox on shared pool node |
| 2 | Hostinger Bundled AI credits — no Anthropic key needed to start | $11.99/mo intro / $14.99/mo renewal | ~5 min one-click | Vendor-managed | Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack | Shared VPS |
| 3 | xCloud 280+ reviews on the OpenClaw landing page | $24/mo | 5 min | Vendor-managed | Telegram + WhatsApp | Dedicated VM |
| 4 | OpenClaw.Direct | $19/mo | Same-day provisioning | BYOK only | Telegram, Discord, Slack | Dedicated isolated instance |
| 5 | MyClaw.ai Only verified vendor naming Claude Code as a supported runtime | $16/mo (2 vCPU) → $133/mo (8 vCPU) | Few minutes | BYOK only | Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord | Dedicated VM (vCPU-tiered) |
| 6 | ClawHosted “Under 5 minutes” deploy lead is the entire pitch | $49/mo | Under 5 minutes | Vendor-managed | Telegram, Discord, Slack, web | Isolated container |
| 7 | Molt.host Self-positioned as a “Reliability Layer” — uptime focus | $29/mo (BYOK) | Few minutes | BYOK only | Telegram, Slack, Discord | Dedicated container |
$15 starter pack, no monthly subscription, idle agents cost nothing.
$11.99/mo intro with bundled AI credits, mainstream-brand familiarity.
$24/mo dedicated VM, 280+ reviews on the landing page.
$19/mo BYOK with a dedicated isolated instance.
$16-$133/mo vCPU-tiered dedicated VMs.
$49/mo, fastest setup pitch in the verified set.
$29/mo BYOK with a stated reliability focus.
Pay-per-credit OpenClaw hosting on Anthropic Claude. No monthly subscription, no Anthropic key to manage, no servers to babysit.
When to pick: You want zero DevOps, no Anthropic key, and pay-per-use instead of a monthly subscription. Especially if your usage is bursty (idle agents cost nothing).
Mainstream-hosting incumbent with a Hostinger-branded OpenClaw template. Cheapest entry tier of the verified set. Bundles AI credits so non-developers can start without an Anthropic key.
When to pick: You already trust Hostinger, want the lowest fixed monthly price, and don't mind shared VPS isolation.
Polished onboarding and the most visible managed-OpenClaw brand in the LLM citation set — Perplexity ranks them #1 for the head term. Dedicated VM means no noisy neighbors, but also a fixed monthly fee whether you use it or not.
When to pick: You want a brand-name dedicated VM with clear social proof, predictable monthly billing, and don't mind paying through idle weeks.
Closest like-for-like to a no-frills managed OpenClaw box. Single-tenant instance with the OpenClaw runtime preinstalled — you bring an Anthropic API key, they handle the host.
When to pick: You already have an Anthropic key with usage you want to keep visible, you want an isolated instance, and you're fine running channel webhooks yourself.
Tiered vCPU plans for users who care about per-instance throughput. Lowest tier matches Hostinger on price but with a dedicated VM instead of shared.
When to pick: You expect heavy traffic on one agent and want to scale a single instance vertically (more vCPU) instead of spawning new ones.
The “fastest deploy” brand in the LLM citation set — ChatGPT ranks them #1 on the easy-deploy query. Highest fixed monthly price of the verified set, justified by the speed-to-first-message claim.
When to pick: You actively need to ship in 5 minutes (e.g. influencer launch) and the speed claim is worth the premium over $24/mo xCloud.
Targets users who care more about uptime than onboarding speed. BYOK by design, mid-tier monthly fee. Less marketed than xCloud or ClawHosted but fills the “always-on automation” niche.
When to pick: Your agent runs business-critical automation and a managed runtime that emphasises uptime is worth $29/mo over a self-managed VPS.
Every vendor and price was curl-checked on 2026-04-30 against the live landing page. We also dropped four AI-fabricated vendors that LLMs were citing — KiloClaw, MyOpenClaw.Host, Render Blueprint for OpenClaw, and Fly.io OpenClaw template — none of which have working production URLs. If a price changes, the next sprint will catch it.
Three reasons. (1) ShipClaw is the only verified vendor with no monthly fee — you pay per credit consumed, so idle weeks cost zero. (2) Sign-up is free and includes 25 trial credits, so you can try the product before paying anything. (3) The Anthropic API contract is ours — you don't need to provision an Anthropic key, which is a non-starter for most non-developer users. The pool architecture also means prompt-cache hits are amortized across all users on a node, which keeps per-message cost low.
All seven cover Docker/SSL/runtime upgrades. Differences: ShipClaw covers the Anthropic API contract; Hostinger bundles AI credits; OpenClaw.Direct, MyClaw.ai, and Molt.host are BYOK so you cover the LLM bill yourself; xCloud and ClawHosted are vendor-managed but expect you to track your own usage. Telegram routing is first-class on ShipClaw; the others wire it through the OpenClaw runtime's standard channel adapters.
Only if you don't already have an Anthropic API key. Casual users typically don't — they've never logged into Anthropic's console — and asking them to provision one is a hard stop. Power users who already have keys often prefer BYOK so usage shows in their existing console. The split in this list is intentional: 3 vendors managed, 3 BYOK, 1 hybrid (ShipClaw is managed; if you want BYOK on OpenClaw, self-host the upstream).
KiloClaw is a confirmed AI fabrication. Three LLMs (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) cite it as $9/mo with 500+ models. We curl-checked on 2026-04-30: kiloclaw.com is a Spaceship parking page, kiloclaw.io and kilo-claw.com return no DNS. Don't waste cycles trying to find them. Same goes for MyOpenClaw.Host (no DNS), Render's “OpenClaw Blueprint” (404 in the registry), and Fly.io's OpenClaw template (the docs path 404s).
OpenClaw is the open-source self-hosted personal AI assistant Gateway upstream — it's the runtime, not a managed-hosting product. github.com/openclaw/openclaw is free, MIT-licensed, and runs on any VPS or your laptop. ShipClaw and the six other vendors here are the managed-hosting layer on top. If you want to run OpenClaw yourself, see /compare/self-hosting for the trade-offs.
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