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Qianfan Provider Guide

Qianfan is Baidu’s MaaS platform, provides a unified API that routes requests to many models behind a single endpoint and API key. It is OpenAI-compatible, so most OpenAI SDKs work by switching the base URL.

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Prerequisites

  1. A Baidu Cloud account with Qianfan API access
  2. An API key from the Qianfan console
  3. OpenClaw installed on your system

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Getting Your API Key

  1. Visit the Qianfan Console
  2. Create a new application or select an existing one
  3. Generate an API key (format: bce-v3/ALTAK-...)
  4. Copy the API key for use with OpenClaw

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CLI setup

openclaw onboard --auth-choice qianfan-api-key

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Config snippet

{
  env: { QIANFAN_API_KEY: "bce-v3/ALTAK-..." },
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "qianfan/deepseek-v3.2" },
      models: {
        "qianfan/deepseek-v3.2": { alias: "QIANFAN" },
      },
    },
  },
  models: {
    providers: {
      qianfan: {
        baseUrl: "https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2",
        api: "openai-completions",
        models: [
          {
            id: "deepseek-v3.2",
            name: "DEEPSEEK V3.2",
            reasoning: true,
            input: ["text"],
            cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
            contextWindow: 98304,
            maxTokens: 32768,
          },
          {
            id: "ernie-5.0-thinking-preview",
            name: "ERNIE-5.0-Thinking-Preview",
            reasoning: true,
            input: ["text", "image"],
            cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
            contextWindow: 119000,
            maxTokens: 64000,
          },
        ],
      },
    },
  },
}

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Notes

  • Default bundled model ref: qianfan/deepseek-v3.2
  • Default base URL: https://qianfan.baidubce.com/v2
  • Bundled catalog currently includes deepseek-v3.2 and ernie-5.0-thinking-preview
  • Add or override models.providers.qianfan only when you need custom base URL or model metadata
  • Qianfan runs through the OpenAI-compatible transport path, not native OpenAI request shaping