🦞 Take control of your OpenClaw costs

           

What do you get?

• 🔀 Routes every request to the right model — and cuts costs up to 70%
• 📊 Track your expenses — real-time dashboard that shows tokens and costs per model
• 🔔 Set limits — set up alerts (soft or hard) if your consumption exceeds a certain volume

Why Manifest

OpenClaw sends all your requests to the same model, which is not cost-effective since you summon big models for tiny tasks. Manifest solves it by redirecting queries to the most cost-effective model.

Manifest is an OpenClaw plugin that intercepts your query, passes it through a 23-dimension scoring algorithm in <2ms and sends it to the most suitable model.

Unlike almost all alternatives, everything stays on your machine. No suspicious installer, no black box, no third party, no crypto.

Quick Start

Cloud vs Local

Manifest is available in cloud and local versions. While both versions install the same OpenClaw Plugin, the local version stores the telemetry data on your computer and the cloud version uses our secure platform.

Use cloud if

• You want a quick install
• You want to access the dashboard from different devices
• You want to connect multiple agents

Use local if

• You don't want the telemetry data to move from your computer
• You don’t need multi-device access
• You don't want to subscribe to a cloud service

If you don't know which version to chose, start with the cloud version.

Cloud (default)

openclaw plugins install manifest
openclaw config set plugins.entries.manifest.config.apiKey "mnfst_YOUR_KEY"
openclaw gateway restart

Sign up at app.manifest.build to get your API key.

Local

openclaw plugins install manifest
openclaw config set plugins.entries.manifest.config.mode local
openclaw gateway restart

Dashboard opens at http://127.0.0.1:2099. Telemetry from your agents flows in automatically.

Features

• LLM Router — scores each query and calls the most suitable model
• Real-time dashboard — tokens, costs, messages, and model usage at a glance
• No coding required — Simple install as OpenClaw plugin
• OTLP-native — standard OpenTelemetry ingestion (traces, metrics, logs)

Privacy by architecture

In local mode, your data stays on your machine. All agent messages, token counts, costs, and telemetry are stored locally. In cloud mode, only OpenTelemetry metadata (model, tokens, latency) is sent — message content is never collected.

In cloud mode, the blind proxy physically cannot read your prompts This is fundamentally different from services saying "trust us."

The only thing Manifest collects is anonymous product analytics (hashed machine ID, OS platform, package version, event names) to help improve the project. No personally identifiable information or agent data is included.

Opting out:

MANIFEST_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1

Or add "telemetryOptOut": true to ~/.openclaw/manifest/config.json.

Manifest vs OpenRouter

	Manifest	OpenRouter
Architecture	Runs locally — data stays on your machine	Cloud proxy — all traffic routes through their servers
Cost	Free	5% fee on every API call
Source code	MIT licensed, fully open	Proprietary
Data privacy	100% local routing and logging	Your prompts and responses pass through a third party
Transparency	Open scoring algorithm — see exactly why a model is chosen	Black box routing, no visibility into how models are selected

Configuration

Cloud mode is the default. For local mode (zero config), set mode to local.

Setting	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	cloud	cloud sends telemetry to app.manifest.build (default). local runs an embedded server on your machine. dev connects to a local backend without API key.
apiKey	string	env MANIFEST_API_KEY	Agent API key (must start with mnfst_). Required for cloud mode, auto-generated in local mode.
endpoint	string	https://app.manifest.build/otlp	OTLP endpoint URL. Only relevant for cloud and dev modes.
port	number	2099	Port for the embedded dashboard server (local mode only).
host	string	127.0.0.1	Bind address for the embedded server (local mode only).

# Switch to local mode
openclaw config set plugins.entries.manifest.config.mode local
openclaw gateway restart

Contributing

Manifest is open source under the MIT license. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the development setup, architecture notes, and workflow. Join the conversation on Discord.

Want a hosted version instead? Check out app.manifest.build

License

MIT