Comment by davedx

> but found it way too wasteful on tokens/expensive

I fear this is intrinsic to its architecture. Even if you use smaller models for regular operational tasks (checking heartbeat), you'll inevitably need to promote back to bigger models to do anything useful, and the whole idea of openclaw is that it can do many useful things for you, autonomously. I think that means it's going to burn a lot of tokens if you're using it as intended.

This is presumably also why the default model mode is to try and oauth its way into coding agent harnesses instead of using lab API's?