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Cut Your OpenClaw Costs by 90%: The Smart Model Selection Guide
The $30/Month Wake-Up Call I was running two simple OpenClaw cron jobs: Daily email summaries (job postings from Gmail) Google Sheets tracker updates Both were using Claude Sonnet 4.5, OpenClaw’s default model. Great model—incredibly capable, thoughtful responses, handles complex reasoning. But here’s the thing: I didn’t need Sonnet for these tasks. Extracting job titles from…