OpenClaw Model Wars: Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3-Codex vs DeepSeek V3 — Real Cost Comparison

Creator recommends Claude Opus 4.6 for quality; DeepSeek V3 ($0.27/M tokens) as budget fallback — 10-50x cheaper. Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins everyday sweet spot. GPT-5.3-Codex leads computer-use benchmarks.

Product Idea from this Signal

A smart proxy that routes OpenClaw requests to the cheapest working model and fails over instantly without infinite loops

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OpenClaw model failover is completely broken. When the primary model hits rate limits, LiveSessionModelSwitchError creates an infinite retry loop instead of switching to the fallback. The overloaded_error from Anthropic does not trigger failover at all. Meanwhile, users are paying 3-5x more than necessary because there is no intelligent routing between Claude Opus, Sonnet, GPT-4o, and DeepSeek V3 based on task complexity. This tool sits between OpenClaw and the LLM providers, routing each request to the optimal model by task type and instantly failing over to alternatives when any provider goes down.

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