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OpenClaw VPS vs Fly.io

Run your app close to users with Firecracker micro-VMs. Below: side-by-side pricing, isolation model, and honest guidance on when each platform fits your assistant workload.

Quick Summary

Choose OpenClaw VPS if you want:

  • +No DIY Cloudflare Tunnel setup, wired automatically
  • +Per-bot observability + log streaming out of the box
  • +Flat per-bot pricing vs capacity-planning spreadsheet

Choose Fly.io if you want:

  • +Latency-sensitive edge workloads
  • +Developers comfortable with VM-level ops
  • +Apps needing strict isolation boundaries

Ready to ship an AI assistant without the ops overhead?

OpenClaw VPS deploys your assistant onto a dedicated VPS in minutes. $39.99/mo per assistant on accrued usage, capped, so a 24/7 assistant hits the cap as its whole bill.

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Already using Fly.io? You can migrate your assistant in under 10 minutes. Visit Fly.io.