Stairwell — I cut my OpenClaw costs from 13¢ to 2¢ per call

[last folio]

Free cost dashboard that sits between OpenClaw and your LLM provider. Shows every call in real time.
what it does:

• cost per request, per session — not just a monthly total
• cache hit/miss on every call — know if caching is actually saving you money
• works with Anthropic, OpenAI, and OpenRouter
• catches everything your agents are doing (including tasks you asked for but no longer need)

after the anthropic pricing change, my costs were $20 a day with no idea why. put a proxy in front of my agent and found my average call was 13¢ — most of it from cache misses from bad setup. just having visibility got me down to 2¢/call.

free for anyone from the community: https://www.stairwell.run

community-built, not affiliated with openclaw team

[severe thunder]

Sounds too good

[last folio]

It's real! If your context setup is already ideal, then you likely won't learn anything, but I thought mine was also.

[gloomy delta]

Yep. Same issue $20pm to $20per day. Had to build similar monitoring. This might have saved me a few weeks effort sorting out the excessive token usage.

[still isle]

How's it all going now??

[vagrant beacon]

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