---
title: "Deploy AstrBot - OpenClaw alternative"
description: "OpenClaw alternative: AI agent framework with IM & LLM integration"
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/astrbot-openclaw-alternative
---

# Deploy AstrBot - OpenClaw alternative

OpenClaw alternative: AI agent framework with IM & LLM integration

**[Deploy AstrBot - OpenClaw alternative on Railway](https://railway.com/template/astrbot-openclaw-alternative)**

- **Creator:** Muhammad Bilal
- **Category:** AI/ML
- **Total deploys:** 5

## Template content

### soulter/astrbot:latest

- **Image:** soulter/astrbot:latest
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host AstrBot on Railway

AstrBot is a modern, open-source AI agent platform that enables you to build intelligent chatbots for popular messaging platforms using today's leading large language models. It combines AI conversations, plugins, knowledge bases, multimodal capabilities, MCP support, and agent workflows into a single platform, making it easy to deploy production-ready AI assistants for personal, business, and community use.

## About Hosting AstrBot

Deploying AstrBot on Railway provides a fast, production-ready hosting solution without the complexity of managing infrastructure. Railway automatically builds the application using its Dockerfile, provisions networking, and allows persistent storage through Volumes so your configuration, plugins, and data survive deployments.

AstrBot includes a modern WebUI for managing AI providers, messaging platform integrations, plugins, personas, and knowledge bases. Once deployed, you can connect providers such as OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Ollama, LM Studio, Dify, Coze, and many others using secure Railway environment variables.

Railway also provides automatic deployments from GitHub, centralized logs, monitoring, custom domains, and seamless scaling, allowing you to focus on building AI-powered applications instead of maintaining servers.

## Dependencies for AstrBot Hosting

* Persistent Volume (recommended for configuration, plugins, uploads, and data)
* API credentials for your preferred AI provider (OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Anthropic, Ollama, etc.)

### Deployment Dependencies

* GitHub Repository: https://github.com/AstrBotDevs/AstrBot
* Docker Image: https://hub.docker.com/r/soulter/astrbot
* Official Documentation: https://docs.astrbot.app/

### Implementation Details

**Recommended Railway Configuration**

| Setting               | Value                                                                        |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Builder               | Dockerfile                                                                   |
| Dockerfile Path       | `Dockerfile`                                                                 |
| Root Directory        | Leave blank                                                                  |
| Start Command         | Leave blank (use Dockerfile default)                                         |
| Public Networking     | Enabled                                                                      |
| Persistent Volume     | `/AstrBot/data`                                                              |
| Environment Variables | `TZ`, AI provider API keys, and any optional AstrBot configuration variables |

**Recommended Environment Variables**

```text
TZ=UTC
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1
```

Attach a Railway Volume to preserve configuration, plugins, and uploaded data across deployments.

## First Login

On the first deployment, AstrBot automatically generates a dashboard username and password for security reasons.

### Retrieve Your Login Credentials

1. Open your **Railway Project**.
2. Select the **AstrBot** service.
3. Go to **Deployments**.
4. Open the latest deployment.
5. Click **View Logs**.
6. Select **Deploy Logs**.
7. Copy the generated dashboard username and password.

### Step 1 – Open Deploy Logs

![Open Deploy Logs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaviarahul123/Icons/refs/heads/main/Astrbot1.png)

### Step 2 – Copy the Generated Credentials

![Generated Username and Password](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaviarahul123/Icons/refs/heads/main/Astrbot2.png)

You will see output similar to:

```text
username: astrbot
password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
```

Use these credentials to log in to the AstrBot WebUI.

> **Note:** These credentials are generated only during the initial deployment. Save them somewhere safe, as you'll need them to access the dashboard.


## Common Use Cases

* Build AI assistants for Telegram, Discord, Slack, QQ, WeChat, and other messaging platforms.
* Create customer support, automation, and knowledge base chatbots powered by modern LLMs.
* Develop extensible AI agents with plugins, tools, multimodal capabilities, and custom workflows.

# ✨ Features

- 💯 Free & Open Source
- 🤖 Production-ready AI Agent Platform
- 💬 AI LLM Conversations
- 🧠 Knowledge Base Support
- 🧩 1000+ Community Plugins
- 🛠️ MCP (Model Context Protocol) Support
- 🎭 Persona & Character Management
- 🗜️ Automatic Context Compression
- 🌐 Built-in Web Dashboard
- 💻 Built-in ChatUI
- 🎙️ Speech-to-Text Support
- 🔊 Text-to-Speech Support
- 🖼️ Multimodal AI (Images, Audio & Files)
- 🛡️ Secure Agent Sandbox
- 🌍 Internationalization (i18n)
- ⚡ Highly Extensible Plugin Architecture


# 📱 Supported Messaging Platforms

AstrBot integrates with many messaging and collaboration platforms, including:

- Telegram
- Discord
- Slack
- QQ
- OneBot v11
- WeChat Official Accounts
- WeCom
- Feishu (Lark)
- DingTalk
- LINE
- Mattermost
- KOOK
- Misskey
- Satori
- Matrix
- Rocket.Chat
- VoceChat

…and many more.

# 🧠 Supported AI Providers

### Large Language Models

- OpenAI
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- DeepSeek
- Moonshot AI
- Zhipu AI
- Ollama
- LM Studio
- SiliconFlow
- ModelScope
- OneAPI
- AIHubMix
- 302.AI
- CompShare
- TokenPony
- PPIO Cloud

### AI Platforms

- Dify
- Coze
- Alibaba Cloud Bailian

### Speech-to-Text

- OpenAI Whisper
- SenseVoice
- Xiaomi MiMo Omni

### Text-to-Speech

- OpenAI TTS
- Gemini TTS
- Azure TTS
- FishAudio
- GPT-SoVITS
- Edge TTS
- Minimax TTS
- Volcano Engine TTS
- Xiaomi MiMo TTS


# 🚀 Common Use Cases

- AI assistants for Telegram, Discord, Slack, QQ, and WeChat
- Customer support chatbots
- Enterprise knowledge base assistants
- AI-powered automation agents
- Personal AI companions
- Community moderation bots
- AI workflow automation
- Educational AI tutors
- Plugin-powered AI applications
- Internal company assistants

## Why Deploy AstrBot on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying AstrBot on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.


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