Deploy and Host SnapClaw on Railway

SnapClaw is a production-ready template for deploying OpenClaw — an open-source personal AI agent — on Railway. Connect your ChatGPT subscription via OAuth, add a Telegram bot, and start chatting with your own AI agent. Setup is done entirely through a browser-based wizard — no terminal or config files needed.

About Hosting SnapClaw

SnapClaw packages OpenClaw into a single container with a built-in setup UI, reverse proxy, and gateway manager. The OpenClaw base image includes Playwright with Chromium for browser automation. A TypeScript wrapper handles the gateway process lifecycle, health checks, and authentication. Configuration, conversation history, and credentials persist on a Railway Volume at /data, so your bot survives redeploys and updates.

Common Use Cases

Personal AI Assistant — deploy a 24/7 AI agent you can message from Telegram or any browser
Browser Automation — let your agent browse the web, extract data, fill forms, and take screenshots
Multi-Channel Bot — connect Telegram, Discord, Slack, or other messaging platforms to one AI agent
Self-Hosted AI — keep your conversations and data on your own infrastructure instead of third-party services

Dependencies for SnapClaw Hosting

Railway account with a plan that supports 2GB+ memory
ChatGPT subscription for Codex OAuth authentication
Telegram app for creating a bot via @BotFather

Deployment Dependencies

OpenClaw — open-source AI agent framework (GitHub)
Playwright — browser automation (included in the OpenClaw base image)

Why Deploy SnapClaw 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 SnapClaw on Railway, you get a personal AI agent running in the cloud with persistent storage, automatic restarts, and a public domain — all without managing servers or Docker.