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What is Chowder?

Chowder is a managed platform for OpenClaw — the open-source agentic framework that turns language models into persistent, tool-using agents with memory, chat channels, and a workspace. Instead of SSH-ing into servers, writing systemd units, and manually configuring gateway files, you call an API. Chowder handles the rest: provisioning cloud sandboxes, deploying OpenClaw, managing the gateway lifecycle, and proxying requests.

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What you can do

Deploy instances

Spin up fully configured OpenClaw instances in seconds. Each one gets its own sandbox, gateway, workspace, and memory.

Chat with agents

Send messages to your instances through the API. Use sessions to maintain separate conversation threads.

Connect channels

Wire up Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and 8 more messaging platforms. One API call per channel.

Install skills

Browse ClawHub and install skills — browser control, web search, code execution, and hundreds more.

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How it works

Your app  -->  Chowder API  -->  Cloud Sandbox  -->  OpenClaw Gateway
                                   (sandbox)          (agents, tools,
                                                       channels, memory)
  1. You sign up and get an organization API key (chd_org_...).
  2. You create an instance — Chowder provisions a sandbox, installs OpenClaw, configures the gateway, and gives you a running agent in ~90 seconds.
  3. You interact — send messages, connect channels, install skills, manage files. Everything through REST.
  4. Your users interact — through Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, or your own frontend. The agent persists across conversations.

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Who is this for?

  • Platform builders who want to offer AI agents as a feature without running infrastructure.
  • Developers who want a managed OpenClaw deployment with an API they can integrate into anything.
  • Teams who need multiple isolated agent instances with different configurations, skills, and channel connections.

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Quick example

Create an instance, send it a message, and get a response — all in three API calls: 
# 1. Sign up
curl -X POST https://api.chowder.dev/v1/organization/signup \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "my-org"}'
# Returns: { "api_key": "chd_org_abc123...", "organization": { ... } }

# 2. Create an instance
curl -X POST https://api.chowder.dev/v1/instances \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer chd_org_abc123..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "my-agent"}'
# Returns: { "id": "inst_...", "status": "provisioning", ... }

# Wait ~90 seconds for provisioning...

# 3. Chat
curl -X POST https://api.chowder.dev/v1/instances/inst_.../responses \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer chd_org_abc123..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-sonnet-4-20250514", "input": "Hello! What can you do?"}'
# Returns: { "output": [{ "content": [{ "text": "Hey! I'm your new agent..." }] }] }

Ready to start?

Follow the quickstart to deploy your first instance in under 5 minutes.