Tips om free working models 🙏
I’ve been trying to get openclaw to work for like 4 days now. I can run it on paid apis, but it drained my credits so quick that as a broke student I quickly realised this was not doable. I followed some guides online to keep the context low and clear every time it passed x tokens, even added configs and instructions for this, but with like a couple config messages once the bot was running, it drained 5€ of tokens with haiku and sonnet. Before moving to the free ones, I also tried Kimi k2.5 through openrouter, but same issue, a couple small short messages, really few actually, and it spent 2€
After this I decided to try and have it run on free models with openrouter, but so far all the models I tried did not work. I tried Pony and Gpt-oss on open router, both did not recognised the model ids. I tried Llama 70b with groq api on the free tier and the Same thing happened. I then tried Kimi k2.5 through nvidia api, supposedly, also not recognised.
It’s been very frustrating and almost giving up honestly. Anyone could help me out and give me tips for working free models on open router or another provider?
Also, some tips on how to actually use paid models without burning tokens sooo quickly? Bc from what I’ve been reading, people can spend around 20€ per month even with paid ones, that is doable for me, but from my experience it could easily be 20€ per day
at least the way mine is configured
After this I decided to try and have it run on free models with openrouter, but so far all the models I tried did not work. I tried Pony and Gpt-oss on open router, both did not recognised the model ids. I tried Llama 70b with groq api on the free tier and the Same thing happened. I then tried Kimi k2.5 through nvidia api, supposedly, also not recognised.
It’s been very frustrating and almost giving up honestly. Anyone could help me out and give me tips for working free models on open router or another provider?
Also, some tips on how to actually use paid models without burning tokens sooo quickly? Bc from what I’ve been reading, people can spend around 20€ per month even with paid ones, that is doable for me, but from my experience it could easily be 20€ per day
at least the way mine is configured
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