Deploy Your Own AI Assistant in One Command: Crazyrouter + OpenClaw Self-Hosting Guide

Why Self-Host an AI Gateway? If you've used ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, you know the pain: separate accounts, separate API keys, separate billing for each platform . Claude for coding (best code quality) GPT for daily chat (cheap) Gemini for long document analysis (huge context window) DeepSeek R1 for reasoning tasks (best value) That's 4 API keys, 4 invoices, 4 different API formats. Crazyrouter + OpenClaw solves this: Crazyrouter : One API key for 300+ models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc.). OpenAI-compatible, cheaper than official pricing. OpenClaw : Open-source AI gateway that turns AI models into your personal assistant on Telegram, Discord, Slack, and more. Combined = your own AI infrastructure . What You Get After deployment: An AI gateway running on your server (port 18789) A Telegram Bot for chatting with AI anytime 15+ popular models pre-configured and ready to use Send /start in Telegram to pair and start chatting with your AI assistant Prerequisites Item How to