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Qwen / Model Studio (Alibaba Cloud)

The Model Studio provider gives access to Alibaba Cloud models including Qwen and third-party models hosted on the platform. Two billing plans are supported: Standard (pay-as-you-go) and Coding Plan (subscription).
  • Provider: modelstudio
  • Auth: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY
  • API: OpenAI-compatible

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Quick start

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Standard (pay-as-you-go)

# China endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice modelstudio-standard-api-key-cn

# Global/Intl endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice modelstudio-standard-api-key

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Coding Plan (subscription)

# China endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice modelstudio-api-key-cn

# Global/Intl endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice modelstudio-api-key
After onboarding, set a default model: 
{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "modelstudio/qwen3.5-plus" },
    },
  },
}

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Plan types and endpoints

PlanRegionAuth choiceEndpoint
Standard (pay-as-you-go)Chinamodelstudio-standard-api-key-cndashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
Standard (pay-as-you-go)Globalmodelstudio-standard-api-keydashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
Coding Plan (subscription)Chinamodelstudio-api-key-cncoding.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
Coding Plan (subscription)Globalmodelstudio-api-keycoding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
The provider auto-selects the endpoint based on your auth choice. You can override with a custom baseUrl in config.

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Get your API key

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Available models

  • qwen3.5-plus (default) — Qwen 3.5 Plus
  • qwen3-coder-plus, qwen3-coder-next — Qwen coding models
  • GLM-5 — GLM models via Alibaba
  • Kimi K2.5 — Moonshot AI via Alibaba
  • MiniMax-M2.5 — MiniMax via Alibaba
Some models (qwen3.5-plus, kimi-k2.5) support image input. Context windows range from 200K to 1M tokens.

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Environment note

If the Gateway runs as a daemon (launchd/systemd), make sure MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY is available to that process (for example, in ~/.openclaw/.env or via env.shellEnv).