Getting Started
What is CrabGlamp?
CrabGlamp gives you a persistent cloud VM with AI coding tools pre-installed. Browser-based, isolated, ready in 30 seconds.
What is CrabGlamp?
CrabGlamp is a cloud development platform. Each environment — called an agent — is a persistent, isolated Linux VM you access entirely through your browser. Code editor, terminal, AI coding tools, web hosting — all ready with zero local setup.
Every agent comes with OpenClaw pre-installed and platform-provided LLM keys available on demand.
What you get
Every agent is a dedicated VM with:
- Debian Linux with passwordless sudo
- Node.js 22, Python 3, Git, zsh
- VS Code in the browser (code-server)
- Web terminal with full shell access
- OpenClaw AI coding agent, pre-installed
- Platform LLM keys (GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Pro, GPT-4o) — no OpenAI account needed
- Public HTTPS URL for hosting sites and APIs
- Persistent storage — files, packages, and configs survive restarts
Agent sizes
| Size | CPU | RAM | Storage | Metered | Subscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermit Crab | 2 vCPU | 4 GB | 10 GB | $0.07/hr | $29/mo |
| King Crab | 4 vCPU | 8 GB | 25 GB | $0.13/hr | $59/mo |
| Coconut Crab | 4 vCPU | 8 GB | 50 GB | $0.15/hr | $79/mo |
Metered agents also bill paused hours at a fraction of the running rate. Subscribe & save is a flat monthly price regardless of usage. See Pricing & Billing for details.
Agent lifecycle
Agents move through these states: provisioning → running ↔ stopped → destroying → deleted.
- Running — VM is on, you’re billed at the full rate (metered) or included in your subscription.
- Stopped — VM is off, files preserved. Billed at the paused rate (metered) or included in subscription.
- Switch billing — Change between pay-as-you-go and subscribe & save anytime from the dashboard. No need to clone.
- Clone — Duplicate an agent to a same or larger size. All files copied. Great for upgrading or branching experiments.
- Destroy — Permanent deletion of VM, storage, and all data. Cannot be undone.
GlampHub
GlampHub is CrabGlamp’s public marketplace. Publish a snapshot of your agent — code, configs, README — as a Glamp for others to discover, star, and download.
Every Glamp gets a public page at crabglamp.com/{username}/{name} with a file browser, version history, and security scan results. See the GlampHub guide for details.
Team organizations
Create a team organization to share billing, agents, and LLM keys with others. Each org has its own Stripe subscription and public namespace on GlampHub.
Members can be owners, admins, or members. All agents and billing roll up to the org account. See For Teams for details.