Providers
DeepInfra
DeepInfra provides a unified API that routes requests to the most popular open source and frontier models behind a single endpoint and API key. It is OpenAI-compatible, so most OpenAI SDKs work by switching the base URL.
Getting an API key
- Go to https://deepinfra.com/
- Sign in or create an account
- Navigate to Dashboard / Keys and generate a new API key or use the auto created one
CLI setup
openclaw onboard --deepinfra-api-key <key>Or set the environment variable:
export DEEPINFRA_API_KEY="<your-deepinfra-api-key>" # pragma: allowlist secretConfig snippet
{ env: { DEEPINFRA_API_KEY: "<your-deepinfra-api-key>" }, // pragma: allowlist secret agents: { defaults: { model: { primary: "deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash" }, }, },}Supported OpenClaw surfaces
The bundled plugin registers all DeepInfra surfaces that match current
OpenClaw provider contracts. Chat, image generation, and video generation
refresh their model catalogues live from /v1/openai/models?sort_by=openclaw&filter=with_meta
when DEEPINFRA_API_KEY is configured; the other surfaces use the curated
static defaults below.
| Surface | Default model | OpenClaw config/tool |
|---|---|---|
| Chat / model provider | first chat-tagged entry from live catalog (manifest fallback deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash) |
agents.defaults.model |
| Image generation/editing | first image-gen-tagged entry from live catalog (static fallback black-forest-labs/FLUX-1-schnell) |
image_generate, agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel |
| Media understanding | moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 for images |
inbound image understanding |
| Speech-to-text | openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo |
inbound audio transcription |
| Text-to-speech | hexgrad/Kokoro-82M |
messages.tts.provider: "deepinfra" |
| Video generation | first video-gen-tagged entry from live catalog (static fallback Pixverse/Pixverse-T2V) |
video_generate, agents.defaults.videoGenerationModel |
| Memory embeddings | BAAI/bge-m3 |
agents.defaults.memorySearch.provider: "deepinfra" |
DeepInfra also exposes reranking, classification, object-detection, and other native model types. OpenClaw does not currently have first-class provider contracts for those categories, so this plugin does not register them yet.
Available models
OpenClaw dynamically discovers available DeepInfra models at startup. Use
/models deepinfra to see the full list of models available.
Any model available on DeepInfra.com can be used with the deepinfra/ prefix:
deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flashdeepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2deepinfra/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5deepinfra/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5deepinfra/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12Bdeepinfra/zai-org/GLM-5.1...and many moreNotes
- Model refs are
deepinfra/<provider>/<model>(e.g.,deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max). - Default model:
deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash - Base URL:
https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai - Native video generation uses
https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/inference/<model>.
