What is Beach?

Beach hosts OpenClaw — your own personal AI agent, running on a server that's just yours.

What this is

Beach is a managed hosting service for OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI agent. Instead of running OpenClaw yourself on a laptop or home server, you sign up for Beach and we run it for you on a dedicated server in the cloud — yours, not shared. You bring your own AI provider key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or OpenRouter), connect a messaging channel like Telegram, and start chatting with your agent.

Two products work together to make this happen, and the rest of these docs assume you understand which is which.

Beach handles vs. OpenClaw handles

| Beach handles | OpenClaw handles | |---|---| | Hosting your server (24/7 uptime, backups, security) | The agent itself — what it knows, how it replies | | Your subscription, billing, and account | Conversations, memory, and history | | Storing your API keys and channel tokens securely | Connecting to messaging channels and processing messages | | Starting / stopping / restoring your instance | Skills (your agent's extra abilities) |

You'll spend most of your time in the OpenClaw Control UI talking to your agent. You'll come back to Beach to manage your account, billing, or your instance.

Two surfaces, two URLs:

  • Beach Settings lives at app.beachhost.io — your dashboard for the subscription, your provider key, channels, and instance controls.
  • The Control UI lives at your own private subdomain (something like sd-abc12345.beachhost.io, given to you after signup). That's where you actually talk to your agent and manage memory, sessions, and skills.

When these docs say "open the Control UI," they mean OpenClaw's UI at your subdomain. When they say "open Beach Settings" or "your dashboard," they mean Beach's UI at app.beachhost.io.

Who Beach is for

Beach is for people who want a personal AI agent without running infrastructure themselves. If you're comfortable copy-pasting an API key and following numbered steps, but you don't want to install Docker or read about servers, Beach is for you. If you'd rather self-host OpenClaw on your own machine, that's great too — OpenClaw is open source and the project's docs cover that path.

What you get

A Beach subscription includes:

  • A dedicated server running OpenClaw, just for you (not shared with other customers)
  • Automatic daily backups of your agent's data
  • Encrypted, per-user storage for your provider keys and channel tokens
  • All channel integrations as they ship (Telegram is live; Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, Signal, and iMessage are on the way)
  • Email support

What's not included: the cost of your AI provider. You bring your own key, and you pay your provider directly for the tokens your agent uses. See Pricing & Free Trial for details.

Related