API Usage & Costs
Audit what costs money, keys used, and how to view usage
This document lists features that can call API keys and where costs are displayed. This focuses on
OpenClaw features that can generate provider usage or paid API calls.
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- Environment variables (e.g.: OPENAI_API_KEY, BRAVE_API_KEY, FIRECRAWL_API_KEY).
- Config (models.providers.*.apiKey, tools.web.search.*, tools.web.fetch.firecrawl.*,
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- Image: OpenAI / Anthropic / Google.
- Video: Google.
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- Brave Search API: BRAVE_API_KEY or tools.web.search.apiKey
- Perplexity (via OpenRouter): PERPLEXITY_API_KEY or OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Brave free tier (generous):
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- FIRECRAWL_API_KEY or tools.web.fetch.firecrawl.apiKey
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- openclaw status --usage
- openclaw models status --json
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7) Compression protection summary
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9) Talk (Voice)
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- ELEVENLABS_API_KEY or talk.apiKey
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