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OpenClawOpen source

OpenClaw, an assistant with its own computer.

“Like having a senior engineer on call” — OpenClaw’s words, not ours. Give it a real machine: in the session on this page it fetched the morning’s top Hacker News story live. One click boots it on a disposable microVM with its own HTTPS subdomain.

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⊞ Dashboardgentle-seal
Starting openclaw...
OpenClaw 2026.6.11 (e085fa1) — Like having a senior engineer on call, except I don't bill hourly or sigh audibly.
openclaw tui - local embedded - agent main - session main
session agent:main:main
be my morning-briefing assistant: check today's top story on hacker news and give me a 2-line brief
Top story: *Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection* (f-droid.org) — rising 1166 points with 475 comments in 12 hours.
Brief: F-Droid argues that Google's Android Developer Verification program, ostensibly a security measure for Play Store publishers, actually functions as a threat to independent developers by centralizing control and creating a barrier that undermines the open-source ecosystem.
local ready | idleagent main | session main | tribes/deepseek-v4-flash | tokens 14k/200k (7%)
OpenClaw · gentle-seal.zbox.sh⚙ 0%▤ 4%⛁ 8%⌘K to askPop outDelete

real session · captured live on zipbox.ai · sandbox deleted after

time to a live terminalseconds
your URLopenclaw.zbox.sh
price$0.0342/hr · $25/mo

How you set up OpenClaw in the cloud

01

Sign in

Email if you want it simple, a crypto key if you want anonymity. No passwords — every session is cryptographically signed.

02

Boot OpenClaw

A fresh Firecracker microVM boots and OpenClaw installs and launches itself at first boot. On pay-per-use a metered key is injected; or paste your own key at boot.

03

It’s live in your browser

A full-root terminal opens in the browser and the box answers at its own zbox.sh subdomain. Pause parks it for free, delete wipes it for good, SSH is optional.

Questions, answered straight

Do I need an API key to run OpenClaw?
No. Pick pay-per-use and a metered key is injected when the sandbox boots — tokens are billed to your prepaid balance at cost plus 3%, and the agent works immediately. Or bring your own key at boot and pay your provider direct.
What does running OpenClaw in the cloud cost?
$0.0342 per hour while the sandbox runs — about $25 a month left on 24/7 — and $0 while it’s paused. You start with free credit — no card. OpenClaw’s default machine is 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk, and other sizes start at $10/mo.
What happens when I pause or delete a OpenClaw sandbox?
Two buttons, honestly: Pause shuts the machine down and parks its disk for free — restore it later and pick up where the agent left off. Delete wipes the whole VM — disk, memory, network — permanently. You only ever pay while it runs.
Is it safe to let OpenClaw run unattended with full permissions?
In a sandbox, yes — that’s the point. The box is a hardware-isolated Firecracker microVM with its own kernel and none of your files, keys, or cookies. Close the tab and it keeps working; the blast radius is one disposable machine.
Can I SSH into the sandbox?
Optionally. The browser terminal is the default and needs no setup. Add an SSH public key when you boot and you can also connect from your own terminal — same machine, same session.

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OpenClaw, on a machine you can throw away.

One click boots the open-source AI assistant on a disposable cloud machine — and you pay only while it runs.

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