Kimi Claw: OpenClaw, but Without Running Your Own Server
Moonshot AI (the team behind Kimi) just rolled out something called Kimi Claw.
At a glance, it’s easy to describe:
it’s basically an OpenClaw-style AI agent, but hosted in the cloud and ready to use with one click.
What makes it interesting isn’t that it’s more powerful than OpenClaw.
It’s that you don’t have to set anything up.
A bit of context: what OpenClaw actually is
If you’ve played with OpenClaw before, you already know why people like it.
It’s not a chatbot. It’s an agent that can actually do things for you — run tasks, remember context over time, and interact through tools like Telegram, Discord, or Slack. You talk to it in chat, and it works in the background.
That model turned out to be very appealing. OpenClaw’s community exploded, the skill ecosystem grew fast, and people started using it for everything from simple reminders to fairly complex workflows.
The downside is also obvious if you’ve tried it yourself:
you need a machine that stays online, and you need to be comfortable setting it up and maintaining it.
That’s where Kimi Claw comes in.
What Kimi Claw changes
Kimi Claw removes almost all of that friction.
You don’t install anything. You don’t run a server. You don’t even really “deploy” in the traditional sense.
You go to Kimi, click Create, wait a minute, and you get a cloud-based agent that’s online all the time. It runs on Kimi’s own model (K2.5), and it comes with 40GB of cloud storage out of the box.
Close your laptop, switch computers, log in later — it’s still there, exactly where you left it.
That alone solves the biggest reason many people never seriously tried OpenClaw.
How it feels in practice
After using Kimi Claw for a while, what stood out to me wasn’t any single feature, but how low-effort it feels.
Because it’s always online, you stop thinking about where it’s running. You just talk to it.
It remembers things you told it days ago. You can ask it to watch for something, remind you later, or help with ongoing tasks, and it doesn’t lose context halfway through.
You can also shape how it behaves — tone, style, how strict or casual it should be. After some back-and-forth, it starts to feel less like a generic assistant and more like something tuned to how you work.
Skills are already there
Kimi Claw connects directly to ClawHub, which means it can use thousands of existing OpenClaw skills.
In one case, I uploaded a PDF and asked it to translate the content. It didn’t have that capability ready, so I told it to look for a skill. It found one, installed it, and finished the task.
You don’t really have to think about “installing plugins.” You just tell it what you want, and if there’s a skill available, it figures out how to use it.
Using it across apps
One thing I liked more than expected: it’s the same assistant everywhere.
You can talk to Kimi Claw on the web, then bring it into tools like Telegram or Feishu, and it doesn’t reset. Same memory, same personality.
It feels less like “multiple bots” and more like a single assistant that happens to live in different places.
About pricing
Kimi Claw is currently in beta and tied to Kimi’s paid plans.
There’s no separate fee just for Claw, but you need a Kimi subscription (starting at around $39/month). Whether that’s worth it depends on how much you already use Kimi’s other features.
If you’re curious, this is where you try it:
kimi-claw bot
Final thoughts
If you already run OpenClaw locally and enjoy having full control, Kimi Claw probably isn’t a replacement.
But if you like the idea of a persistent AI agent and never bothered because of setup and maintenance, this makes the whole thing much more approachable.
It feels less like a “new product launch” and more like OpenClaw finally becoming something you can just… use.
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