Power Virtual Agents vs Vessel for OpenClaw: Managed AI Agents on Private VMs

It empowers teams to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers. It addresses many of the major issues with bot building in the industry today. It eliminates the gap between the subject matter experts and the development teams building the bots, and the long latency between teams recognizing an issue and updating the bot to address it. It removes the complexity of exposing teams to the nuances of conversational AI and the need to write complex code. And, it minimizes the IT effort required to deploy and maintain a custom conversational solution.

300,000+ OpenClaw instances are currently exposed on the public internet (Shodan: port 18789). Most self-hosted setups miss the tunnel, skip the required flags, share containers. When your agent processes untrusted input and holds access to your accounts, that gap matters. Vessel provides private, dedicated hosting for OpenClaw agents. Each agent runs on its own GCP e2-standard-2 VM, its own kernel, its own disk, no shared memory with other tenants. No public IP. No port 18789 exposure. All traffic routes through an encrypted Cloudflare Tunnel. Secrets are managed separately from the runtime. Provision from a web dashboard, connect to Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp, and destroy when done. Your agent's data stays on your VM, your own Vessel.