This guide covers the minimum and recommended hardware specifications for hosting OpenClaw across different deployment scenarios. OpenClaw is designed to be lightweight—the Gateway itself is a Node.js process that proxies messages to cloud-hosted LLMs—but resource needs scale with enabled features, concurrent sessions, and sandboxing configuration.
| Scenario | CPU | RAM | Storage | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal (headless gateway) | 1 vCPU | 512MB | 1GB | 1 Mbps |
| Standard (gateway + channels) | 1-2 vCPU | 1-2GB | 5GB | 5 Mbps |