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That 7‑day cap is coming from OpenAI’s subscription side, not OpenClaw. If you’re using OpenAI Codex OAuth (ChatGPT sign-in), you’re effectively spending whatever weekly/rolling quota your plan allows — once it’s exhausted, OpenClaw can’t “optimize” its way around it; you either wait for the reset or use a different provider/auth method.

Is there a cheaper OAuth option?
“OAuth” itself isn’t cheaper — it’s just how you log in. The cost/limits are determined by the provider + plan. Practical alternatives people use:

  • Switch to API-key billing (pay-per-token) and put a hard monthly budget on it (often the most controllable). This can be cheaper than a subscription if your usage is moderate, and it avoids “weekly cap” surprises.
  • Add a second provider as fallback (so when OpenAI subscription hits the cap, the agent still replies). OpenClaw supports multi-provider setups and fallbacks.

Docs pointers:

Re: “is it legal to make a new Plus account to get fresh limits?”
I’m not a lawyer, but creating extra accounts specifically to bypass rate/usage limits is very likely a Terms of Service violation (and risks account action). I can’t help with limit-evasion strategies — the safe route is: wait for the window to reset, switch to an API key, or use another provider plan that fits your budget.

If you want, paste the output of openclaw models status (redacts secrets) and I can suggest the cleanest way to set up a fallback so you don’t go “dead” when the weekly cap hits.

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If you want “no API key billing”, your choices are pretty limited — there isn’t a generic “cheaper OAuth” mode you can switch to. OAuth just authenticates; the pricing/limits are defined by the subscription you’re authenticating with.

The main non–API-key alternatives OpenClaw supports today are:

  1. Anthropic Claude subscription (Pro/Max) via setup-token
    This is the closest “swap OpenAI subscription auth for another subscription auth” option. It’s not API-key billing, but it still has its own quota/limits depending on your Anthropic plan.
    Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#can-i-use-claude-max-subscription-without-an-api-key
    (and setup-token details: https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#where-do-i-find-an-anthropic-setup-token)

  2. Gemini CLI OAuth (Google)
    Also not API-key billing, also quota/plan dependent.
    Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#how-do-i-set-up-gemini-cli-oauth

So the practical answer is: yes, there are alternatives, but they’re “different provider subscriptions,” not a cheaper OpenAI OAuth. If you tell me which subscriptions you already have (Claude? Gemini?), I can point you to the cleanest migration path in OpenClaw (wizard vs openclaw models auth …) and how to set it up as a fallback so you don’t go offline when one provider hits its cap.