MyClaw rents you a private, always-on OpenClaw or Hermes instance for $199 to $1,599 a year, and the setup saving is real. The published record is thinner than the marketing: 2.3/5 on Trustpilot from six reviews, credible reports of lock-ups, and model tokens billed on top. Worth a paid month, not a year up front.
How we made this estimate
We compiled ten sources read between 30 March and 12 August 2026 and did not run an agent on MyClaw ourselves. They break down as: the merchant's own pricing, terms, refund-policy, about and comparison pages, read 12 August 2026; four published assessments (SecuritySenses, North Penn Now, Stork.AI and Revuo); Trustpilot's customer ratings page; and two competing providers' price lists.
Every experiential claim below is attributed to whoever made it. Where the sources contradict each other, we have said so rather than picked a side.
What you are actually renting
MyClaw is managed hosting for self-hosted AI agents. You pay a subscription, and the company runs a dedicated instance of OpenClaw or its Hermes Agent on your behalf, keeping it patched, backed up and online without you touching a terminal.
OpenClaw is free, open-source software with 379,000-plus GitHub stars according to MyClaw's own about page. Anyone can install it. The catch is that running it well means a Linux box, Docker, credential handling and someone to notice when it falls over at 3am.
That gap is the entire product. MyClaw's comparison page puts self-installation at four to six hours locally or five to six hours on a VPS, against 30 seconds on its platform. Treat those as vendor figures, because they are.
Once running, the agent is reachable from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, email or a browser. North Penn Now's write-up also credits a community Skills Hub, more than 50 platform integrations, and AES-256-GCM encryption for stored API credentials.
One point the company states plainly on its own about page: it is an independent service, not affiliated with or endorsed by the OpenClaw project. The operating entity named in the terms is Cubo World Inc., governed by Delaware law.
The real price of running it
Four tiers, all quoted annually on the pricing page we read on 12 August 2026. The monthly figures are what you pay if you decline annual billing.
| Plan | Yearly | Monthly | Resources | AI credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | $199 ($16.60/mo) | $29 | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, 3 TB | None |
| Pro | $399 ($33.30/mo) | $59 | 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD, 5 TB | $100 |
| Max | $799 ($66.60/mo) | $119 | 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD, 10 TB | $150 |
| Ultra | $1,599 ($133.30/mo) | $239 | 16-64 vCPU, 32-128 GB RAM, 320-1,280 GB SSD, 20 TB | $200 |
The annual discounts are genuine arithmetic, not theatre. Pro at $399 against $708 of monthly billing is 44% before the bundled credits and the advertised 58% after them. Lite saves 43%, Max 55%, Ultra 51%.
The line that matters most is the one in small print on the pricing page: AI token usage is not included in the subscription. You are buying the machine and the babysitting, not the model calls.
Budget for tokens separately. Stork.AI puts LLM API spend for a comparable always-on agent at $20 to $60 a month. Pro's bundled $100 of credits is roughly two to five months of that, not a year of it.
Priority support starts at Pro; Lite gets standard support and no credits. Ultra is the only tier promising guaranteed resources rather than best-effort allocation.
There is a standing offer on the merchant's homepage and OpenClaw landing page: subscribe to one agent and get a 30-day Max trial of the other free. Some coupon publishers also advertise an extra discount on annual plans through their own links, which we could not corroborate against the official pricing page on 12 August 2026, so treat it as unconfirmed until checkout shows it.
What every source agrees on
Across everything we read, the same two claims survive. The setup burden really does disappear, and the instance really is dedicated rather than shared.
SecuritySenses called it “a solid, practical choice” for running OpenClaw in production without building infrastructure, and reported consistent performance with no instability during its evaluation. North Penn Now reached the same conclusion, though it is labelled partner content, which is worth weighting accordingly.
Even Revuo, the least enthusiastic of the scored listings, credits zero-config deployment, a browser terminal for debugging, and automated daily backups and security patches.
| Source | Type | Verdict | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SecuritySenses | Independent write-up | Positive; recommends for most non-infrastructure teams | 22 Apr 2026 |
| North Penn Now | Labelled partner content | Positive; “delivers on its core promise” | 23 Apr 2026 |
| Stork.AI | Directory assessment | Mixed; flags instability and support delays | 4 Apr 2026 |
| Revuo | Scored listing | 62/100; unclaimed, no customer reviews on file | Verified 9 Aug 2026 |
| Trustpilot | Customer ratings | 2.3/5 from six reviews | Read 12 Aug 2026 |
| MyClaw pricing and terms | Merchant primary | Prices confirmed; no uptime guarantee given | Read 12 Aug 2026 |
Where the reports split
Two contradictions are large enough that you should know about them before you pay.
The first is stability. SecuritySenses reported no instability at all. Stork.AI reported the opposite in April: “system instability, agents locking up, and unresponsiveness from support”. Trustpilot customers describe sessions crashing, messages disappearing and file delivery failing. Those accounts cannot all be describing the same fortnight of service, so the honest reading is that reliability has been uneven rather than uniformly good or bad.
The second is refunds, and here the merchant contradicts itself. The terms state that “fees are non-refundable unless required by law”. The separate refund policy page offers prorated refunds on unused months of annual plans, refunds of unused credit balances, a response within two business days and processing in five to ten. Customers meanwhile report that refunds were only available in the first seven days.
If a refund path matters to you, get the applicable terms confirmed by email to [email protected] before subscribing annually, and keep the reply. Two published policies that disagree are two policies you may have to argue with.
A third, smaller mismatch: several directories quote a $19 per month entry plan and a free tier. Neither appeared on the official pricing page we read on 12 August 2026, where the cheapest real entry is $29 monthly or $199 a year. The vendor's own comparison page still advertises “from $19/mo”, so the listings are likely repeating a superseded price.
Strengths and sore points
Strengths
- Removes the Linux, Docker and maintenance work entirely; every source we read agrees on this
- Each plan is an isolated private instance, not shared capacity
- Annual billing cuts 43% to 58% off monthly rates, and the arithmetic checks out
- $100 to $200 in AI credits bundled from Pro upward
- Reachable from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, email or browser
- Automated daily backups, security patches and a browser terminal, per Revuo and North Penn Now
- Company states plainly that it does not train on customer data
Sore points
- 2.3/5 on Trustpilot, and every review in that six-strong sample was negative
- Customers report that deleting an instance does not cancel the subscription; only contacting support does
- Stork.AI and Trustpilot customers both describe lock-ups and slow support replies
- Model tokens cost extra, plausibly $20 to $60 a month on top of the plan
- The terms and the refund policy page state different refund rules
- No uptime SLA; the terms disclaim uninterrupted or error-free service and cap liability at 12 months of fees or $100
- Tied to the OpenClaw and Hermes family, so it is of little use for other agent frameworks
- Founded in 2026, so there is not yet much of a track record to judge
Should you subscribe to MyClaw?
Subscribe if your time is worth more than the difference between $16.60 a month and a $5 VPS, and you want an agent answering on Telegram tonight rather than after a weekend of Docker. Non-technical founders, solo operators and agencies running a client's agent are the fit SecuritySenses identified, and we would agree.
Skip it if you already run servers. Anyone comfortable with a Hetzner box and a compose file is paying a large premium for convenience they do not need, and giving up runtime control in exchange.
Skip it too if the total cost has to be predictable. Between separately billed tokens and refund terms that disagree with each other, this is not the product to hand an inflexible budget.
Cheaper and closer alternatives
Agent 37 lists managed OpenClaw hosting from $3.99 a month, rising to $99.99 for teams, with isolated containers, a live desktop and Composio integrations. Prefer it if price is the deciding factor and you can tolerate an equally young provider.
ClawHosters starts at EUR 19 a month for 2 vCPU and 4 GB, matching MyClaw's Lite specification, with EU hosting and an optional REST API. Prefer it if data residency in Europe matters or you want programmatic access, which Stork.AI notes MyClaw does not offer.
Self-hosting on a VPS runs about $5 to $7 a month on Hetzner-class hardware, plus your own API keys and your own time. Prefer it if you can already keep a Linux box alive, because nothing about OpenClaw itself requires a managed host.
Questions people ask before subscribing
Is MyClaw legit?
It is a real, operating service run by Cubo World Inc. under Delaware law, with a published refund policy and a contact address. It is also young, founded in 2026, and its customer ratings are poor: 2.3 out of 5 from six Trustpilot reviews as of 12 August 2026. Legitimate, then, but not yet proven.
Is MyClaw affiliated with OpenClaw?
No. MyClaw's own about page states it is “an independent service” and is “not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to the OpenClaw project or its maintainers”.
How much does MyClaw cost per month?
Monthly billing runs $29 for Lite, $59 for Pro, $119 for Max and $239 for Ultra. Paying yearly brings those to an effective $16.60, $33.30, $66.60 and $133.30 respectively, charged upfront as $199, $399, $799 and $1,599.
Does MyClaw include AI credits or do I pay for tokens separately?
Both. Pro includes $100 of credits, Max $150 and Ultra $200, while Lite includes none. Beyond those balances, the pricing page states that AI token usage is not included in the subscription, so model calls are billed on top.
Can I get a refund from MyClaw?
The refund policy page offers prorated refunds for unused months on annual plans and refunds of unused credit balances, processed in five to ten business days. The terms of service separately say fees are non-refundable unless required by law, and some customers report a seven-day window in practice. Confirm your position in writing before paying for a year.
How do I cancel a MyClaw subscription?
Contact support at [email protected]. Trustpilot customers specifically warn that deleting your instance does not stop the billing, which is the single most repeated complaint in that sample.
Is MyClaw better than self-hosting OpenClaw on a VPS?
Only if you value the saved time above the price gap. A VPS capable of running OpenClaw costs roughly $5 to $7 a month against MyClaw's $16.60, and you keep full runtime control, which the published assessments agree MyClaw restricts.
Bottom line
MyClaw sells a genuine convenience at a fair headline price, and the annual discounts are real rather than invented. What it has not yet earned is confidence: a six-review Trustpilot score of 2.3, repeated reports of lock-ups and billing that survives instance deletion, and two refund documents that disagree.
Our compiled estimate is 6.4 out of 10, held at medium confidence because the customer sample is small and the published assessments split cleanly along independence lines. Buy a month of Pro, run your actual workload, and only commit to a year once cancellation and support have both been tested.
The strongest live offer at the time of writing is the annual saving on Pro, with the buy-one-agent-get-a-30-day-Max-trial promotion running alongside it.