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Why We Built Suji

Suji Team

Update (2026-05-27): Suji has grown into a cloud platform with an app marketplace, and OpenClaw is now one app among many. See the announcement for what changed.

Update (2026-08-23): The beta programme mentioned below has ended. There is no application and no waitlist: create an account directly.

There’s a gap in the open-source world that’s been bugging us for a while.

Great software exists. Tools like OpenClaw let you build powerful AI chatbots with full control over your data and your AI provider. But running them in production? That’s where things fall apart.

We kept asking the same question: why is deploying open-source software still so painful?

So we built Suji: a cloud VM that is yours, with the infrastructure work done for you, so that running apps like OpenClaw does not require a DevOps degree.

The problem with self-hosting

If you’ve ever tried self-hosting OpenClaw (or any non-trivial open-source project), you know the drill:

  1. Spin up a VPS
  2. Install Docker, configure compose files
  3. Set up a reverse proxy with SSL
  4. Set up Tailscale or WireGuard for remote access
  5. Harden SSH, configure firewalls, lock down ports
  6. Set up backups (and pray they work when you need them)
  7. Monitor uptime, patch the OS, rotate logs…

By the time you’re done, you’ve spent more time on infrastructure than on the thing that actually matters: the app you wanted to run in the first place.

And that’s assuming everything goes right the first time. In practice, you’re fighting with firewall rules, debugging network tunnels, and wondering why your agent stopped responding at 3 AM on a Saturday.

There’s also the security side. We’ve seen plenty of OpenClaw instances running on bare VPSes with no firewall, no rate limiting, and the admin panel wide open to the internet. Some have been compromised. API keys stolen, conversations leaked, agents hijacked to spam. It’s not that people don’t care about security, it’s that securing a self-hosted setup properly is yet another full-time job on top of everything else.

What Suji does differently

Suji gives you the full power of apps like OpenClaw without the infrastructure overhead.

When you create an instance on Suji, here’s what actually happens behind the scenes:

From your perspective, you pick an app, fill in a few fields, and you’re live.

Bring your own AI

One thing we felt strongly about: you should own your AI relationship.

For agent apps like OpenClaw, Suji doesn’t lock you into a single provider. Bring your API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, xAI, Groq, Cerebras, or any OpenRouter-compatible model. Switch providers anytime. Your conversations, your data, your choice.

Security from the ground up

Every instance is a real, isolated VM, and you keep root access to it. Web traffic reaches your apps over HTTPS: each VM gets its own <name>.suji.fr hostname, served through a per-VM Cloudflare Tunnel, so you never have to set up a reverse proxy or manage certificates yourself.

Built for privacy

Every Suji instance runs in the EU (Germany and Finland). No multi-tenant containers sharing resources. No data leaving the region. Sensitive values such as app credentials are encrypted at rest.

We built Suji the way we’d want our own data handled.

What’s next

We’re just getting started. More updates coming soon.

Try it out

Suji is now open to everyone. Get started. Card required, hourly billing applies from day one. If you’ve been wanting to run OpenClaw without becoming a sysadmin, give Suji a shot.

We’d love to hear what you think.