Providers
Qianfan
Qianfan is Baidu's MaaS platform: a unified, OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests to many models behind a single endpoint and API key. OpenClaw ships it as the official external plugin @openclaw/qianfan-provider.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | qianfan |
| Auth | QIANFAN_API_KEY |
| API | OpenAI-compatible (openai-completions) |
| Base URL | https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2 |
| Default model | qianfan/deepseek-v4-pro |
Install plugin
Install the official plugin, then restart Gateway:
openclaw plugins install @openclaw/qianfan-provideropenclaw gateway restartGetting started
Create a Baidu Cloud account
Sign up or log in at the Qianfan Console and ensure you have Qianfan API access enabled.
Generate an API key
Create a new application or select an existing one, then generate an API key. Baidu Cloud keys use the bce-v3/ALTAK-... format.
Run onboarding
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qianfan-api-keyNon-interactive runs read the key from --qianfan-api-key <key> or
QIANFAN_API_KEY. Onboarding writes the provider config, adds the
QIANFAN alias for the default model, and sets qianfan/deepseek-v4-pro
as the default model when none is configured.
Verify the model is available
openclaw models list --provider qianfanBuilt-in catalog
| Model ref | Input | Context | Max output | Reasoning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
qianfan/deepseek-v4-pro |
text | 1,000,000 | 393,216 | Yes | Current DeepSeek flagship |
qianfan/ernie-5.1 |
text | 128,000 | 65,536 | No | Latest ERNIE text flagship |
qianfan/ernie-5.0 |
text, image | 128,000 | 65,536 | Yes | Current multimodal and thinking model |
qianfan/deepseek-v3.2 |
text | 128,000 | 32,768 | No | Deprecated onboarding compatibility default; replaced by deepseek-v4-pro |
qianfan/ernie-5.0-thinking-preview |
text, image | 128,000 | 65,536 | Yes | Deprecated alias; replaced by ernie-5.0 |
The catalog is static; there is no live model discovery.
Config example
This example explicitly selects the current DeepSeek flagship instead of the onboarding compatibility default.
{ env: { QIANFAN_API_KEY: "bce-v3/ALTAK-..." }, agents: { defaults: { model: { primary: "qianfan/deepseek-v4-pro" }, models: { "qianfan/deepseek-v4-pro": { alias: "QIANFAN" }, }, }, }, models: { providers: { qianfan: { baseUrl: "https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2", api: "openai-completions", models: [ { id: "deepseek-v4-pro", name: "DeepSeek V4 Pro", reasoning: true, input: ["text"], cost: { input: 1.771957, output: 3.543915, cacheRead: 0.147663, cacheWrite: 0, }, contextWindow: 1000000, maxTokens: 393216, }, ], }, }, },}Transport and compatibility
Qianfan runs through the OpenAI-compatible transport path, not native OpenAI request shaping. Standard OpenAI SDK features work, but provider-specific parameters may not be forwarded.
Troubleshooting
- Ensure your API key starts with
bce-v3/ALTAK-and has Qianfan API access enabled in the Baidu Cloud console. - If models are not listed, confirm your account has the Qianfan service activated.
- Only change the base URL if you use a custom endpoint or proxy.
