Purpose
OpenClaw Launch is a managed deployment service for AI agents and coding runtime environments, primarily addressing the operational burden of self-hosted deployments. According to the official description, it provides managed hosting for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and AI coding runtime environments (harnesses). Users can deploy a chat agent, or deploy a cloud development machine with Claude Code preinstalled, with deployment claimed to be completed within 30 seconds and no DevOps experience required.
Main Capabilities
- One-click deployment: Complete managed operation via a deploy button, with no installation, configuration files, or terminal operations required.
- Connect common apps: According to the official description, AI agents can send emails, manage calendars, post to Slack, etc., with no API Key or coding required—just connect and use.
- Full computer environment: Agents run on their own cloud host, support sudo, installing software packages, and running scripts, and provide full root privileges in an isolated sandbox container.
- Real-time browsing and takeover: Watch agents browse the web in real time; when login or two-step verification is encountered, you can take over the live browser to click yourself, then hand control back.
- File management: Browse, upload, download, and edit every file on the machine as if it were a desktop.
- Multi-bot teams: Each bot can have independent tasks, instructions, skills, and memory. Bots can hand off tasks to each other and consolidate them into a single answer; every task handoff can be seen in Hermes Bot Chat. The Telegram team wizard can place bots into the same Telegram group, where they collaborate via @mentions, supporting both OpenClaw and Hermes.
- Model access: Supports bringing your own API Key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Perplexity, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), or logging in with a ChatGPT Plus subscription and calling GPT-5.6 Sol; you can also use no keys at all and directly use the AI credits and free models included with the platform.
Runtime Environment Options
Officially, three runtime environments are provided, selected at deployment, with the same infrastructure and plans:
- OpenClaw: Officially described as the original framework with the most deployments, MIT licensed, 385,000+ GitHub stars, the largest community, and its own iPhone and Android apps; use it as the default safe choice unless there is a special reason not to.
- Hermes Agent: Launched by Nous Research, built around cross-session memory rather than a single context window, with newly added Slack and Hermes Desktop; choose this option if the agent needs to still remember information weeks later.
- Coding Harness (new): Not a chat agent, but a cloud development machine with mainstream coding CLIs installed, driven through a browser terminal; code and login information persist after reset.
How to use
The official description is: after choosing a runtime environment, just click deploy, with no need to install, configure, or use a terminal. It can connect to open-source runtimes or commonly used services. The Web Chat platform provides free tokens during the trial period (using free but powerful models); the built-in browser, full command execution, advanced models (GPT, Claude, etc.), vision and advanced search, AI credits, and more can be used as needed; AI credits support top-ups at any time and pay-as-you-go billing.
Pricing information
The officially listed prices and plan information are as follows:
- Starting at $3 for the first month, cancel anytime, officially stated to have no hidden fees, scale as needed.
- Trial: 30 minutes, no credit card required.
- Provides free trial credits and free models.
- The plans listed on the official page include: a $6/mo (new customers) plan, including $1 of AI credits per month, with top-ups at any time and pay-as-you-go billing, supporting free + advanced models, up to 1 instance; the next tier includes $10 of AI credits per month, up to 3 instances. Note: the page also contains wording such as "$3 first month" and "$6 then $6/mo"; the specific applicable conditions and complete plan tiers are subject to the official page.
Suitable scenarios
Individuals or teams that need to quickly launch AI agents without operations overhead; users who want agents to execute commands, browse the web, manage files, and connect to services such as Slack, calendars, and email; agent scenarios that require long-term cross-session memory; cloud development environments that want to use coding CLIs such as Claude Code; users who need to organize multi-bot collaborative teams in Telegram.
Limitations and information not yet provided
The official page does not explain the specific resource specifications of each plan (CPU, memory, storage), instance runtime limits, refund policy details, data storage locations and compliance certifications, version update frequency of each runtime environment, the specific billing method after the free trial period ends, or the full scope of permissions for the "30 minutes, no credit card required" trial. The above information is not yet provided and should be subject to the real-time instructions on the official page.
