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OpenClaw Deploy Cost Guide ($0-8/mo)

Comprehensive cost analysis from $0/month to production pricing. Compares cloud providers: Oracle Cloud free tier ARM (4 OCPU + 24GB RAM forever free with PAYG upgrade), Hetzner CAX11 ($4/mo stable option), AWS/GCP/Azure (~$13-31/mo). Breaks down LLM API pricing with vision support (Gemini Flash-Lite free tier, Claude Haiku 3 ~$1-3/mo, GPT-4.1-mini ~$4/mo). Includes token usage calculations for 50 messages/day and recommended combinations for different budgets. Decision flowchart helps choose optimal setup.

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Author WenHao Yu

Publication Personal Blog

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Difficulty Intermediate

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Cloud/VPS

#cost-analysis #cloud-providers #LLM-pricing #budget-planning

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