BetterClaw
Genuine ongoing free-forever tier that actually deploys and runs an autonomous agent (managed container + 100 tasks/mo + cron, no card) — but $0 infer
- Card required
- No
BetterClaw scores 4.8/10 for free value in Agents. The main constraint: Free-forever plan, no credit card: 1 autonomous agent on managed infra (dedicated 1 vCPU / 1 GB Railway container), 100 tasks/month (one-time + cron combined), unlimited chat, daily-minimum cron, full custom skills, OAuth integrations, AES-256 secrets management (5-min auto-purge), trust levels, kil.
Free value score
4.8 / 10Show the math
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What you get
Free-forever plan, no credit card: 1 autonomous agent on managed infra (dedicated 1 vCPU / 1 GB Railway container), 100 tasks/month (one-time + cron combined), unlimited chat, daily-minimum cron, full custom skills, OAuth integrations, AES-256 secrets management (5-min auto-purge), trust levels, kil
Sign up with email or SSO (no credit card), create an agent in the visual builder from a template or blank, paste your own LLM API key (BYOK
Gotchas
- 100 tasks/mo
Free-forever plan, no credit card: 1 autonomous agent on managed infra (dedicated 1 vCPU / 1 GB Railway container), 100 tasks/month (one-time + cron combined), unlimited chat, dail
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"Tasks (one-time + cron) 100 / month ... Cron frequency Daily minimum ... Agents 1 ... Infrastructure 1 vCPU / 1 GB container ... Chat Unlimited ... Memory retention 7 days (auto-purged)"
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"Free forever. Not 14 days. Not 30 days. No credit card at signup. No automatic conversion to paid. No expiration. The free plan does not downgrade. Every feature is included. Usage is limited (100 tasks/month, 7-day memory, daily cron), but nothing is locked."
https://www.betterclaw.io/free-plan -
"$0/month ... 1 AI agent ... 100 tasks/month (one-time + cron) ... 7-day memory retention ... Daily cron minimum ... BYOK (bring your own API key) ... 1 vCPU / 1 GB Railway container ... Free forever. Never asks for a card."
https://www.betterclaw.io/ -
"Your agent runs on a small container on our infrastructure. costs us about $2 per free user per month. The free tier limits (100 tasks, daily crons, 1 agent) keep that cost predictable."
https://www.reddit.com/r/better_claw/comments/1str0fj/how_is_betterclaw_free_forever_whats_the_catch/