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A Claw2Agent alternative for building your own persistent agent service

Claw2Agent is managed OpenClaw hosting with a dashboard, private agent workspace, Telegram setup, skills and model-provider routing. Sandbox0 supplies the underlying Linux runtime layer for an application you operate. The comparison is therefore about which product responsibilities you want managed, as well as where the agent’s system and data state live.

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Reviewed 2026-10-18 · Published by the Sandbox0 team

When Claw 2 Agent fits

Claw2Agent fits users who want a working hosted OpenClaw assistant, guided setup, skills and support without implementing the surrounding service. Its private workspace, provider-key vault and managed credits are part of that packaged offer.

When to consider Sandbox0

Consider Sandbox0 if you are building your own compatible agent product and need durable installed software, configuration and user data on an automatically growing RootFS. You must operate the agent harness, dashboard, messaging connections, provider billing and support layer.

Capabilities

Claw 2 Agent and Sandbox0: what persists?

Feature comparison with documentation and verification status
Environment and runtime lifetimeClaw 2 AgentNot established in this reviewSandbox0ttl and hard_ttl default to 0 (disabled). Configure idle pause and deletion policies for the same persistent sandbox identity; an idle running sandbox still accrues compute charges.Read documentation →
Persistent filesClaw 2 AgentThe service advertises stored agent/workspace state, but the reviewed pages do not establish a low-level disk lifecycle contract.View evidence ↗Sandbox0The writable RootFS survives successful checkpoints, including software, system configuration, dependencies, and user data.Read documentation →
Whole RootFSClaw 2 AgentA private OpenClaw workspace does not by itself verify complete writable RootFS persistence.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Persistence extends beyond /workspace to paths such as /usr/local, /etc, and /home. Runtime tmpfs and virtual filesystems are excluded.Read documentation →
Release compute, keep stateClaw 2 AgentAlways-hosted agent availability is not evidence of a compute-free execution pause API.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Pause compute between tasks; resume on available capacity. Default resume starts fresh processes from the saved filesystem.Read documentation →
Memory and process stateClaw 2 AgentThe reviewed private-workspace and key-security descriptions do not establish arbitrary process-memory snapshots.View evidence ↗Sandbox0Experimental memory checkpoints can preserve compatible process state. Use memory: true on both pause and resume on a compatible deployment. A filesystem checkpoint alone does not preserve running processes.Read documentation →

Online RootFS growth

On growth-enabled images, Sandbox0 automatically expands the writable RootFS as free space runs low, within a configured sparse logical ceiling up to 64 TiB. Agent processes keep running. Growth is enabled in the qualified Cloud region; confirm activation for other regions. Existing images and snapshots retain their captured storage geometry. The ceiling is logical capacity, not preallocated host disk.

The reviewed Claw2Agent pages do not publish automatic whole-RootFS expansion, disk ceilings or an installed-system retention contract. Those capabilities remain unverified rather than absent. Sandbox0 exposes a durable writable RootFS with online growth on enabled templates; the surrounding OpenClaw service still needs implementation.

Files while compute is paused

Sandbox0's Files API reads persistent files without resuming compute. Filesystem-only pauses also permit edits; retained-memory pauses are read-only and reject mutations with 409. SSH, SFTP, file watching, and runtime-only mounts require running compute.

See paused file operations →

Managed OpenClaw features are part of the offer

Claw2Agent combines hosted OpenClaw, private workspaces, dashboard administration, skills, model routing and support. A cloud agent can work while the user’s laptop is closed. That managed-service behavior does not establish a general-purpose public sandbox lifecycle or a whole-VM checkpoint contract.

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Check which integrations are live

The feature page lists Telegram, managed web tools, OpenAI Images, Vault/BYOK and OpenRouter as current capabilities. Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Gmail, Notion and Google Workspace are marked pending. Do not plan a migration or replacement around connectors that are only announced.

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Provider credits and setup work are different from VM capacity

Starter and Pro bundle one agent workspace with managed-provider credits and optional BYOK. The Done-for-You amount is a setup package, including three Pro months and separately described provider credits, rather than a recurring $1,500 VM bill. Credit-to-token conversion depends on provider/model terms and is not a universal quantity of inference.

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Pricing

Compare billing models, then price your workload

CPU allocation, memory, billing minimums, disk, plan fees, and supported workload differ. These meters are not equal-performance machine quotes. Confirm region, resource units, and included allowances before estimating a total.

Claw 2 Agent

Pricing reviewed 2026-10-18

Starter
$39/month
One private agent workspace, core plus five premium skills, and 1,000 managed-provider credits per month; BYOK supported.
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Pro
$99/month
One higher-limit workspace, all skills, browser/code tools, priority support/API access and 2,000 managed-provider credits per month.
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Done-for-You setup package
$1,500 setup
Includes three Pro months, $300 managed-provider credits and custom setup/integrations; confirm the scope and later renewal.
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These are managed agent-service amounts, not per-vCPU-hour compute rates. Do not equate the plan credit counts with dollars or fixed model-token quantities. BYOK provider usage and ongoing service terms need separate accounting; the setup package’s $300 credit description is distinct from monthly plan credit counts.

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Sandbox0

$0.015/GiB-hour compute (billed by the second at approximately $0.000004167/GiB-second), plus $0.02/GiB-month of retained incremental RootFS and memory checkpoint data. Shared base images and platform recovery retention are excluded; paused sandboxes accrue storage charges only.

Compute / GiB-hour
$0.015
Retained data / GiB-month
$0.02
Paused compute
$0.00

A 4 GiB agent, 100 running hours

$6.00 compute

4 GiB × 100 hours, billed by the second. Keeping 20 GiB of billable incremental data for a full billing month adds $0.40. CPU is derived from memory by the platform; choose a tier that fits your workload.

Understand storage billing →

Before migrating from Claw 2 Agent

  1. Export required OpenClaw files, memory, skills, configuration and provider references through supported account workflows; verify what the source plan actually permits.
  2. Deploy a compatible agent harness on Sandbox0 and implement or retain dashboard, Telegram, tool permissions, model routing, secrets, billing and operational support.
  3. Test system-package persistence, accumulated user state, RootFS growth, deliberate pause/process behavior and the full service cost before moving a live assistant.

Common questions

Is Sandbox0 a drop-in Claw 2 Agent replacement?

Evaluate API compatibility and product scope. These products serve different core workflows, so a change may require a different architecture.

Does keeping files also keep a running agent?

Filesystem state and volatile process state are separate. Sandbox0 requires explicit compatible memory checkpoints to preserve running processes; its default filesystem resume starts fresh processes.

Sources and review scope

The Boat team's Battleships directory is the discovery source. References below describe the product and plan discussed on this page. Check current availability, regional terms and billing units before migrating. Where the cited material does not establish a capability or price, the comparison identifies that uncertainty.

Battleships research record ↗claw2agent.com/features ↗claw2agent.com/pricing ↗claw2agent.com/security ↗Sandbox0 RootFS capacity →

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