I Cut My OpenClaw Cost By 90% | Dirt Cheap Optimization - Here's How?

Here's how to efficiently optimize your OpenClaw API consumption and reduce cost by up to 70 to 90% in two easy steps! Get a VPS now: https://www.hostinger.com/in/astro Use the coupon "ASTRO20" for 20% off on any plan Commands #1: I have added the OPENROUTER_API_KEY as an environment variable I want to optimize my model configuration for cost savings. Please make these changes: Set my primary model for general tasks to use openrouter/minimax/minimax-m2.5 Set fallbacks to: openrouter/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5, then openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-flash #2: Please use openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite for heartbeat checks #3: Add these model aliases: - "minimax" - openrouter/minimax/minimax-m2.5 - "deepseek" - openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 - "kimi" - openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 - "glm" - openrouter/z-ai/glm-5 - "flashlite" - openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite - "flash" - openrouter/google/gemini-2.5-flash - "haiku" - openrouter/anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 - "sonnet" - openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 - "opus" - openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 - "gpt" - openrouter/openai/gpt-5-mini - "nano" - openrouter/openai/gpt-5-nano Join The "aiholiq" Newsletter: https://aiholiq.kit.com/newsletter Boost your coding skills with Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/?via=AstroKJ —————————————————— Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astroo.ai X: https://x.com/astrokjoseph LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrokjoseph Website: https://astrokjoseph.com