Model Provider Quickstart for OpenClaw: Supported LLMs
Learn how to authenticate and set a default model for any supported LLM provider in OpenClaw. This guide covers the quick two-step setup process.
Read this when
- You want to choose a model provider
- You want quick setup examples for LLM auth + model selection
Pick a provider, authenticate, and set the default model to provider/model.
Quick start (two steps)
- Authenticate with the provider (usually through
openclaw onboard). - Set the default model:
{
agents: { defaults: { model: { primary: "anthropic/claude-opus-4-6" } } },
}
Supported providers (starter set)
- Alibaba Model Studio
- Amazon Bedrock
- Anthropic (API + Claude CLI)
- Baseten (Inkling + Model APIs)
- BytePlus (International)
- Chutes
- Cloudflare AI Gateway
- Cohere
- ComfyUI
- DeepInfra
- fal
- Fireworks
- MiniMax
- Mistral
- Moonshot AI (Kimi + Kimi Coding)
- NovitaAI
- OpenAI (API + Codex)
- OpenCode (Zen + Go)
- OpenRouter
- Qianfan
- Qwen
- Runway
- StepFun
- Synthetic
- Venice (Venice AI)
- Vercel AI Gateway
- xAI
- Z.AI (GLM)
For the complete provider catalog and advanced setup, check Provider directory and Model providers.
Additional provider variants
anthropic-vertex- install@openclaw/anthropic-vertex-providerfor implicit Anthropic on Google Vertex support when Vertex credentials are present; no separate onboarding auth choicecopilot-proxy- local VS Code Copilot Proxy bridge; useopenclaw onboard --auth-choice copilot-proxygoogle-gemini-cli- unofficial Gemini CLI OAuth flow; needs a localgeminiinstallation (brew install gemini-cliornpm install -g @google/gemini-cli); default modelgoogle-gemini-cli/gemini-3-flash-preview; useopenclaw onboard --auth-choice google-gemini-clioropenclaw models auth login --provider google-gemini-cli --set-default