What Self-Hosting OpenClaw Actually Costs (It's...

Every deployment guide says self-hosting OpenClaw costs $5-20/mo. I believed that too, until I started tracking where my time actually went. The VPS was the cheapest part of the whole operation. What Everyone Budgets You find a deployment guide. It walks you through spinning up a VPS, pulling the Docker image, setting up a reverse proxy. At the end, you do the math: maybe $7 on Hetzner, $48 if you want DigitalOcean's SLA. Add a domain, Let's Encrypt, your own API keys. Call it $20-100/mo dependi