Aethir Cloud launches MaaS on Claw

Aethir on May 13 launched a Model-as-a-Service, or MaaS, layer for its Claw platform, adding bundled large-language-model access to the company’s existing AI agent hosting service. The company said the new layer folds model inference into the same subscription customers already use for virtual private server, or VPS, instances on Claw. Aethir said the service is meant to remove the need for separate accounts, API keys and billing relationships with outside model providers. The company announced the release in a May 13 blog post and in product documentation updated this week. ### What exactly did Aethir add to Claw? Aethir’s new MaaS layer is an LLM inference service built directly into Claw, according to the company’s product documentation. The docs say customers can deploy an AI agent on an Aethir Claw VPS, select a supported model and run inference through Aethir’s own layer without manual API setup. The May 13 company post said the change turns Claw into what Aethir called a “one-stop AI agent deployment platform,” combining agent hosting and model access under one subscription. (ecosystem.aethir.com) Aethir said the product is aimed at users who would otherwise need to combine separate VPS hosting, model APIs, key management and billing across multiple vendors. (docs.aethir.com) ### Which model providers does Aethir say are included? Aethir named Anthropic, OpenAI and Google as the supported providers in both its blog post and its documentation. The docs list Claude, GPT and Gemini families as available “out of the box,” and say users do not need separate accounts with those vendors to use them through Claw. (ecosystem.aethir.com) The documentation goes further than the initial social-media announcement by naming specific model lines. Aethir’s docs list Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Haiku 4.5 under Anthropic; GPT 5.4 and 5.5, GPT Image 2, GPT 5.1 Codex max and GPT 5.3 Codex under OpenAI; and Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, among others, under Google. Those names appear in the docs page and were not included in the brief X post referenced in the preliminary summary. (ecosystem.aethir.com) ### How is the pricing structured? Aethir’s documentation says Claw offers both base VPS plans and versions bundled with LLM credits. The pricing table lists discounted plans at $3.99 for Lite, $9.99 for Standard and $19.99 for Pro, while bundled plans with model credits are listed at $8.99, $19.99 and $39.90. The same table says those bundled tiers include $0.50, $5, $10 or $20 in LLM credits depending on plan level and trial status. (docs.aethir.com) The May 13 blog post described the pricing as “super-competitive” but did not publish a comparison against outside API providers. The company did, however, say the aim is to let users pay once for both VPS hosting and model tokens rather than maintain separate subscriptions. ### How does this fit into Aethir’s broader push into AI agents? (docs.aethir.com) Aethir launched Claw Alpha on March 25 as a managed OpenClaw hosting product running on the company’s decentralized GPU cloud, according to an earlier company post. That launch pitched Claw as a way to deploy AI agents in isolated VPS environments with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, browser automation support and region selection in the United States or Japan. (ecosystem.aethir.com) The March 25 post said MaaS was part of Aethir’s plan to connect its GPU infrastructure directly to end-user demand at the application layer. The May 13 launch turns that earlier roadmap item into a live product feature, at least within Claw’s subscription stack as described in the company’s own materials. ### What is Aethir saying comes next? (aethir.com) Aethir’s May 13 post said the current release consolidates access to frontier and open-source models under one subscription “today.” The same post and the product docs say the next step is to host leading frontier and open-source models directly on Aethir’s own decentralized GPU network. (aethir.com) The company has not, in the materials reviewed, given a public launch date for that next phase. The most concrete forward marker is the live documentation page for Claw MaaS, which lists supported providers, model names and plan pricing as of its latest update. (docs.aethir.com) (ecosystem.aethir.com)