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title: "Overview"
description: "oc-workers runs your own OpenClaw on your own Cloudflare account. It sleeps when idle and wakes on a message."
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# Overview

With oc-workers you run your own [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) assistant on your own Cloudflare account. OpenClaw is an agent gateway: it talks to you through a chat channel, such as Telegram, and through a web Control UI. oc-workers is a community project and is not affiliated with Cloudflare.

## What you get

- **One install on your account.** An install is what oc-workers deploys: one Worker, some Durable Objects, one container and one R2 bucket. You are its owner, the one person who controls it.
- **Low cost.** The container sleeps after 5 minutes without activity, and a sleeping install has no compute charge. Light use costs about $7 to $14 a month. See [Cost](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/cost/).
- **A fast install.** `ochost init` goes from an empty directory to a working Control UI in 4 to 5 minutes, and it asks for no AI token. See [Quickstart](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/quickstart/).
- **Backups.** oc-workers copies state to R2 while the install runs. [State and backups](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/state-and-backups/) says what you can lose in a crash.
- **A default model.** DeepSeek V4.1 Flash runs on Workers AI through your AI Gateway, Cloudflare's proxy in front of model APIs, which gives you logs and spend limits.
- **Agent tools.** Browser, web fetch, web search, embeddings, speech, transcription and image tools run through a gate in your Worker. See [Capabilities](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/capabilities/).
- **One CLI.** `ochost` installs, shows status, makes backups, upgrades and removes the install. See [CLI reference](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/cli-reference/).

The CLI and its files keep the short names `ochost` and `oc-host`: for example `oc-host.jsonc`, the `.oc-host/` folder and the default Worker name `oc-host`.

## How the install behaves

To sleep, the install saves the container disk as a snapshot and stops the container. To wake, it starts the container again from that snapshot. It wakes on a Telegram message, a timer or when you open the Control UI, and the first reply after a sleep takes about 30 seconds. See [How it works](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/how-it-works/).

## Status

oc-workers has run on one account for weeks, not on many. [Limits and tradeoffs](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/limits-and-tradeoffs/) lists what does not work or is not measured.

## Read in this order

1. [Requirements](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/requirements/): what you need.
2. [Quickstart](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/quickstart/): install step by step.
3. [Channels](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/channels/): connect Telegram and other chat services.
4. [Models](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/models/), [Capabilities](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/capabilities/) and [Configuration](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/configuration/): tune the install.
5. [Cost](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/cost/), [State and backups](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/state-and-backups/), [Upgrades](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/upgrades/) and [Security](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/security/): run it day to day.
6. [Troubleshooting](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/troubleshooting/) and [CLI reference](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/cli-reference/): when something fails, and the full command list.
7. [How it works](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/how-it-works/), [Limits and tradeoffs](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/limits-and-tradeoffs/) and [Changelog](https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/changelog/): background.

Source: https://oc-workers.mdick85.workers.dev/docs/index.mdx