Openclaw is extremely slow.

[manfromfms]

A few weeks ago I've written an issue complaining about the speed of openclaw, which I accept to be not fast, including the fact that it's running on a phone. But recently I've installed the latest version which turned out to be even slower. /start command in telegram executes for like a few minutes when it should just generate a verification code. I can't tell if the issue is with this app or openclaw itself.

[AlexJamesDean]

I am also having speed issues lots of task errors popping out during tasks and a pretty slow startup process. Think I might be overloading context or have too many files in the workspace. Will be trying to speed up the process and will post results of findings (no promises of a fix).

Edit 1: Found an openclaw issue with external gateway auths, others have mentioned it on the thread it could be some form of discord/telegram rate limiting external to openclaw itself with auth timeouts. I have disabled discord auth for my own agent and it seems to have sped up boot times and response times slightly.

Will keep searching...

Edit 2: After tinkering, deleting all of my settings and moving around a bit I discovered that downgrading to 2026.4.16 worked better for me, there are some bugs with the way api urls are handled in the current version (platform.minimax.io redirecting to www. was the only one I noticed but could be effecting other models/apis) but for me this version is doing well. I also downgranded from Node v25 to v24, I dont know if you had a higher version of node installed maybe but could be worth looking into if anything is broken but since I didn't have much time my solution was:

Downgrade OpenClaw to 2026.4.16
Downgrade Node and NPM in line with Node v24

Round trip response on latest Openclaw & Node: 40000s -> Timeout -> 40000s -> No output
Round trip after downgrade: 120-150s -> full output.