Ollama is automatically detected when running locally at http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1
openclaw can detect presence of ollama if it is visible at this specific localhost address. basically if you have ollama running it will be detected. Meaning I could run openclaw fully locally.
Ollama Ollama is a local LLM runtime that provides an OpenAI-compatible API:
one can set openclaw to work through ollama.
openclaw does not need anthropic, can use models locally
ollama can integrate with OpenClaw, meaning it would run through local models
Clawdbot Realistic Costs:Software: Free (MIT licensed, forever)Hardware: VPS $4-5/month, or Raspberry Pi ~$50-100 upfront, or old laptop free, or Mac Mini ~$600AI Model: Claude Pro $20/month (casual) to Claude Max $200/month (heavy use like Viticci)Realistic minimum: ~$25/monthBut remember: that $300+ in 2 days user is real. Heavy agentic use burns through tokens fast.
Assuming cloud based models. Why? You could drop up to 200 month on a VPS and be really self sufficient, but probably wouldn't need a VPS that heavy?
Clawdbot is built for something completely different. Think of it as a personal executive assistant that lives inside your messaging apps. Just like you’d email instructions to a real assistant who then handles the work while you focus on other things, Clawdbot receives natural language requests through WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, or Discord and then executes actual tasks on your computer.
Description of Clawdbot/ now named openclaw, as a PA
Your assistant. Your machine. Your rules. Unlike SaaS assistants where your data lives on someone else’s servers, OpenClaw runs where you choose—laptop, homelab, or VPS. Your infrastructure. Your keys. Your data.
you run openclaw yourself. I think I saw [[Martijn Aslander p]] use it on a VPS yday.
OpenClaw is an open agent platform that runs on your machine and works from the chat apps you already use
openclaw an agent platform you interact with through regular chat apps.
WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams
None of the chatapps mentioned are open themselves. Is there more?
Two months ago, I hacked together a weekend project. What started as “WhatsApp Relay” now has over 100,000 GitHub stars and drew 2 million visitors in a single week.
Openclaw started as a side project in #2025/11
openclaw 'ai personal assistant' that you can interact w through your regular chat apps it says
the skill.md for Moltbook.
'a social network for AI agents' wut?