Compare Costs

How much does each task actually cost? Pick a model and frequency. Compare how OpenClaw stacks up against n8n, CrewAI, and LangChain.

Common agent tasks with estimated token usage. Adjust model and frequency to see what each one costs per day and per month.

Email triage

medium

Read inbox, categorize messages, draft replies

3,000 in / 800 out per run

runs/day

Daily

$0.0840

Monthly

$2.52/mo
6% of total

PR review

high

Read diff, analyze code, post review comments

8,000 in / 2,000 out per run

reviews/day

Daily

$0.5400

Monthly

$16.2/mo
38% of total

Heartbeat monitoring

low

Periodic agent check-in and task scan

6,000 in / 200 out per run

checks/day

Daily

$0.2688

Monthly

$8.06/mo
19% of total

Content writing

medium

Blog posts, social media, documentation

2,000 in / 4,000 out per run

pieces/day

Daily

$0.0660

Monthly

$1.98/mo
5% of total

Data pipeline

medium

Scrape, transform, and report on data

10,000 in / 3,000 out per run

runs/day

Daily

$0.1500

Monthly

$4.50/mo
11% of total

Customer support routing

low

Categorize tickets, assign priority, draft response

1,500 in / 300 out per run

tickets/day

Daily

$0.0480

Monthly

$1.44/mo
3% of total

Slack/channel summary

medium

Read channel history, summarize key threads, flag action items

12,000 in / 1,500 out per run

summaries/day

Daily

$0.1755

Monthly

$5.27/mo
12% of total

Meeting notes

medium

Transcribe and summarize meeting, extract action items

15,000 in / 2,000 out per run

meetings/day

Daily

$0.0750

Monthly

$2.25/mo
5% of total

Total daily cost

$1.407/day

Monthly estimate

$42.2/mo

vs. running everything on Opus ($277/mo)

saving $235/mo (85%)

Estimates use flat per-task token counts. Real costs vary with actual content length. Use the calculator for more precise numbers, or read the heartbeat deep dive to understand where the tokens go.