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In-pod restart
A daemon supervises OpenClaw and restarts it the moment it dies, before anyone notices.
Compare·Molted vs Agent 37
Agent 37 alternative for OpenClaw & Hermes
Agent 37 meters a sandbox per customer by the minute. Molted operates autonomous agents as a managed fleet.
Agent 37 (YC F26) is a direct competitor and a capable one. One API call gives each of your users an always-on sandbox with Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex or your own harness inside, metered by the minute from a prepaid balance. It already offers white-label resale of hosted OpenClaw and Hermes, a model gateway, 1,000+ app integrations, cron schedules, and SOC 2 Type I reports on request.Molted overlaps on the surface and differs underneath. It is a managed operating environment for autonomous agents (OpenClaw today, Hermes and other runtimes on request) where the value is the operating layer: agent-aware recovery, versioned state, managed browser automation, per-agent identity, density pricing and on-premise options.This page maps where each one genuinely wins.
01Side by side
Molted vs Agent 37.
Agent 37
Molted
What it is
Agent 37An API that provisions a gVisor sandbox per customer with an agent harness preinstalled: Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex or custom.
MoltedManaged operating environment for autonomous agents: OpenClaw today, Hermes and other runtimes on request, operated as a fleet.
Pricing model
Agent 37No plan fee: a prepaid balance metered by the minute, about $0.80 per vCPU, $0.70 per GB of RAM and $0.09 per GB of disk per 730-hour month on Standard compute, which shares host resources. Performance compute costs 4x.
MoltedPer instance per day, pro-rated, with up to 30% off annual. One predictable line per agent, with roughly 3x density from safe over-provisioning.
Isolation
Agent 37gVisor sandboxes with their own filesystem and a hard disk quota; hosts have no public hostname and traffic enters through Cloudflare.
MoltedMulti-tenant isolation per instance, credentials AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, with on-premise and Swiss cluster options when isolation must be physical or jurisdictional.
Recovery
Agent 37Sandboxes persist files, memory and connected tools until deleted; keeping the agent process healthy inside is the harness's job.
Molted4-tier self-healing with a daemon that survives the agent dying: crashes caught in under 60s, back in under 90s, config auto-repair and a post-mortem on every failure.
State
Agent 37Persistent sandbox disk, metered while retained.
MoltedVersioned, S3-backed filesystem with file-level diff and point-in-time restore that hot-reloads the running instance.
Integrations
Agent 37Gmail, Slack, Notion and 1,000+ apps, routed and metered, plus paid tools billed from the same balance.
Molted1,500+ integrations through a managed layer: the agent requests an app, the user approves a link, credentials AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest.
Browser and identity
Agent 37Browsing inside the sandbox, with an embeddable desktop, terminal and file browser.
MoltedManaged browser automation (captcha solving, rotating geo-aware proxies, persistent logged-in profiles) and a dedicated mailbox and phone number per agent.
White-label
Agent 37Yes: resell hosted OpenClaw and Hermes under your brand, buy compute at cost and keep the margin.
MoltedYes: white-label dashboard, multi-tenant isolation and a REST API for the full instance lifecycle.
Compliance
Agent 37SOC 2 Type I and readiness reports on request, per its site.
MoltedOn-premise deployment, a Swiss cluster option and a 99.5% SLA on managed clusters (99.9% on-premise).
Best for
Agent 37Products that want a cheap, metered sandbox per user with a choice of agent harnesses.
MoltedBusinesses running autonomous agents for clients that must stay up, recover on their own and act across real tools.
02The part nobody else builds
One OpenClaw is hard to keep alive. Thousands is impossible without recovery.
A single OpenClaw in production already fails in quiet ways: it crashes and stays down, a config corrupts and bricks the instance, memory spikes and the whole box goes with it. Run thousands of them and doing this by hand is not hard, it is impossible. You need watchers and recovery running every second. Agent 37 does not ship any of this. Like every general cloud, machine or agent framework, it hands you infrastructure, not a system that watches your agents and brings them back. Molted is that system.
02
Pod recreation
If the pod itself fails, it is recreated automatically, with the instance state intact.
03
Known-good restore
openclaw doctor repairs corrupted configs and the versioned filesystem restores a last known-good state.
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Critical alert
If automated recovery cannot fix it, a critical alert fires with a full post-mortem of the failure.
On top of the four tiers, a RAM semaphore throttles startups and kills by priority before a shared node runs out of memory, so high density never becomes a crash. Crashes are caught in under 60 seconds and back online in under 90, with a post-mortem on every failure.
03Why Molted
The detail behind the table.
What Agent 37 is genuinely great at
Agent 37 is built for builders. A single call creates a sandbox per customer, the harness of your choice is already inside, and everything you need to wrap it in a product is there: streaming events, signed URLs to embed a live terminal or desktop, cron schedules, a model gateway and 1,000+ integrations.
Pricing is aggressive and transparent, metered by the minute with no plan fee, and its public pricing page compares itself against 30 other providers. White-label resale of OpenClaw and Hermes is already a feature, and SOC 2 Type I reports are available on request. For a team that wants the cheapest credible sandbox per user, it is a serious option.
A metered sandbox is not an operated agent
Agent 37 gives each customer a well-isolated place for an agent to run, billed for what it uses. What happens to the agent inside, a crash at 3am, a corrupted config, a bad change that needs rolling back, a site that blocks the browser, a 2FA code sent by SMS, is mostly the harness's problem and yours.
Molted's product is that layer. A supervising daemon and 4-tier self-healing keep the agent alive with a post-mortem on every failure, a versioned filesystem restores any point in time without a redeploy, managed browser automation handles captchas, proxies and logged-in sessions, and each agent gets its own mailbox and phone number. When you sell agents to clients, those are the failures your support desk would otherwise absorb.
Predictable cost and where you can run
Per-minute metering is cheap for agents that sleep and harder to forecast for agents that work all day, especially on Performance compute at 4x. Molted prices per instance per day, pro-rated, and packs roughly 3x more agents on shared capacity through safe over-provisioning, so an always-on fleet has one predictable line per agent.
For buyers with residency requirements, Molted adds on-premise deployment and a Swiss cluster option alongside EU and US managed clusters. The same team operates molted.cloud for 300+ clients; molted.net is the canary surface.
The verdict
Agent 37 is a sharp, cheap way to give every user a sandbox with an agent inside: per-minute metering, harness choice, white-label and SOC 2 Type I reports. Molted is the operated version of the same promise: always-on autonomous agents with 4-tier self-healing, versioned state, managed browser automation, per-agent identity, per-day pricing and on-premise options. Pick Agent 37 for metered sandboxes; pick Molted when the agents themselves must be kept running.
04FAQ
Molted vs Agent 37, answered.
01Is Agent 37 a direct competitor to Molted?
Yes. Both host OpenClaw and Hermes agents for companies that resell them to their own clients, and both offer white-label. Agent 37 is closer to a metered sandbox API with harnesses preinstalled; Molted is an operated runtime with agent-aware recovery, versioned state, browser automation and per-agent identity.
02How does Agent 37 pricing compare to Molted?
Agent 37 meters by the minute from a prepaid balance, about $0.80 per vCPU, $0.70 per GB of RAM and $0.09 per GB of disk per 730-hour month on Standard compute, with Performance compute at 4x, per its October 2026 pricing page. Molted prices per instance per day, pro-rated, with the operating layer included. Metering favors agents that sleep; a per-day price favors agents that are always working.
03Both offer white-label. What is the difference?
Agent 37 lets you resell hosted OpenClaw and Hermes sandboxes and keep the margin on compute. Molted gives you a white-label dashboard, multi-tenant isolation and a lifecycle API, plus the operating layer that reduces support load per client: self-healing with post-mortems, point-in-time restore, managed browser automation and a mailbox and phone number per agent.
04When should I pick Agent 37 over Molted?
When you want the lowest metered price for a sandbox per user, a choice of harnesses such as Claude Code or Codex, and SOC 2 Type I paperwork today. Pick Molted when the agents carry client commitments, must stay up without an operator, or need to run on-premise or in Switzerland.
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