OpenClaw sounds great in theory. You get to run your own AI agent, connect it to tools you’re already using, and automate your day. But there’s a catch – running it meant most people had to pay for the API usage of hosted LLMs or power a free model on their own device.
So when Sam Altman wrote on X we could sign in to OpenClaw using our existing ChatGPT account, I had to find out if this made OpenClaw actually worth using.
