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OpenClaw Tilts Toward GPT-5.4 While Opus Still Burns 751B Tokens

pulse Red lobster robot unplugs from a smoking server, reaching toward a glowing doorway marked 5.4 — OpenClaw model shift.


openclaw quietly going all-in on gpt-5.4

latest update adds proper routing, recovery, codex support, reasoning tweaks – it’s clear optimization

thehype compared gpt-5.4 vs opus using openrouter data and found something interesting:

- gpt-5.4 leads on price, agentic index, and hle
- but opus still dominates tokens via openclaw (last month)

so while the stack is shifting toward gpt, users aren’t fully switching yet

Comparison table of GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6 across price, agentic index, HLE and OpenClaw token usage — GPT leads on three, Opus leads on tokens.

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