Pricing and credit
Rates, storage, model calls, top-ups, sizes, the room limit, and what happens at zero.
One prepaid balance, in US dollars, pays for awake time, storage and managed model calls. No subscription, no monthly cap, no per-room spending limit.
Awake time
| Size | vCPU | Memory | Disk, at least | Per hour awake | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny | 1 | 1 GB | 16 GB | $0.03 | To everyone |
| Small | 1 | 2 GB | 16 GB | $0.06 | To everyone |
| Medium | 2 | 4 GB | 32 GB | $0.12 | After $20 of top-ups |
| Large | 4 | 8 GB | 64 GB | $0.24 | After $50 of top-ups |
Priced per hour awake at the room's size rate and billed by the second; a wake has no fee of its own. $5 covers about 83 awake hours for a small room, before storage and model calls. What counts as awake: Sleep and wake.
Storage
Storage is charged while the room exists, asleep or awake, at about $0.05 per GiB-month of data actually stored. You pay for the storage used, rather than the disk capacity included with the room's size. While asleep, storage is its only charge: a typical sleeping room stores about 0.3 GiB and costs about $0.02 a month. Rooms that store more cost more. Storage appears separately in History.
Model calls
By default your agent uses Botel's managed model access: the provider's charge plus 15%, shown as Thinking. The markup covers currency conversion and payment fees. Each Thinking line in History names the model. To change it, see Hermes, OpenClaw or the DeepSeek Harness. Your own model key isn't supported in the console yet.
Topping up
Add $5 to $500 at a time through Stripe Checkout. Card payments usually add credit immediately. Other payment methods may take longer to settle.
Sizes
OpenClaw rooms start at small; tiny is not offered.
If you received launch credit, you can create tiny rooms only until your first top-up, so launch credit alone can't create an OpenClaw room. After that, the size requirements below apply.
- The Available column counts lifetime top-ups less refunds. Promo credit doesn't count.
- Creating a medium or large room also needs 24 hours of its awake cost in your balance: $2.88 or $5.76.
- Size is fixed at creation. Small rooms are usually quicker to create; other sizes take a moment longer.
Room limit
4 rooms per account. Every room you haven't deleted counts, including one still setting up.
Running out
At zero, managed model calls stop at once, so your agent stops thinking; programs already running carry on. Awake time and storage are still charged, so the balance can go below zero, and a top-up pays that off first. Keep your balance above zero.
Questions? Write to [email protected].