{"id":2838,"date":"2026-03-11T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:23:03","slug":"openclaw-list-of-models-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiopsschool.com\/blog\/openclaw-list-of-models-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"Openclaw: List of models supported"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OpenClaw<\/strong> (or similar AI coding\/agent frameworks) now support many model providers<\/strong> through a pluggable architecture. The list you see is basically LLM providers \/ gateways<\/strong> you can configure as the backend for the agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll explain them in simple categories<\/strong> so you understand which ones are actually useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1\ufe0f\u20e3 Major Frontier Model Providers (Most Powerful)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

These provide the best reasoning and coding models<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provider<\/th>Example Models<\/th>Use Case<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
OpenAI<\/strong><\/td>GPT-4.1, GPT-5 series<\/td>Coding, reasoning, agents<\/td><\/tr>
Anthropic<\/strong><\/td>Claude Opus \/ Sonnet<\/td>Long context, coding<\/td><\/tr>
Google<\/strong><\/td>Gemini 1.5 \/ Gemini 2<\/td>multimodal + long context<\/td><\/tr>
xAI<\/strong><\/td>Grok<\/td>real-time knowledge<\/td><\/tr>
Mistral AI<\/strong><\/td>Mixtral \/ Mistral Large<\/td>EU based models<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These are usually best quality models<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2\ufe0f\u20e3 Chinese Frontier Models<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Very powerful and often cheaper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provider<\/th>Models<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Moonshot AI<\/strong><\/td>Kimi K2.5<\/td><\/tr>
Alibaba Cloud<\/strong><\/td>Qwen 2.5<\/td><\/tr>
Baidu<\/strong><\/td>Qianfan<\/td><\/tr>
BytePlus<\/strong><\/td>Doubao models<\/td><\/tr>
Volcano Engine<\/strong><\/td>LLM services<\/td><\/tr>
MiniMax<\/strong><\/td>MiniMax models<\/td><\/tr>
Zhipu AI<\/strong><\/td>Z.AI \/ GLM<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These are popular for self-host or cheap inference<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3\ufe0f\u20e3 Aggregators (Multi-Model Gateways)<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

These platforms let you access many models with one API<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provider<\/th>What it does<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
OpenRouter<\/strong><\/td>access 100+ models<\/td><\/tr>
Together AI<\/strong><\/td>open-source model hosting<\/td><\/tr>
Hugging Face<\/strong><\/td>thousands of models<\/td><\/tr>
LiteLLM<\/strong><\/td>unified API for all models<\/td><\/tr>
Cloudflare<\/strong><\/td>LLM routing + caching<\/td><\/tr>
Vercel<\/strong><\/td>AI routing for apps<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These are useful when building multi-model agents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4\ufe0f\u20e3 Local \/ Self-Hosted Models<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

For on-prem inference<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provider<\/th>What it is<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
vLLM<\/strong><\/td>High-performance inference engine<\/td><\/tr>
Synthetic<\/strong><\/td>private LLM infrastructure<\/td><\/tr>
Custom Provider<\/strong><\/td>your own API<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenClaw\n   \u2192 LiteLLM\n       \u2192 vLLM\n           \u2192 Llama3\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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5\ufe0f\u20e3 Developer Platform Providers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
These integrate AI with coding tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Provider<\/th>Purpose<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
**Microsoft Copilot<\/td>coding models<\/td><\/tr>
Kilo Gateway<\/td>AI gateway<\/td><\/tr>
OpenCode Zen<\/td>coding LLM<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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6\ufe0f\u20e3 What Most Engineers Actually Use<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
In real production systems the common stack is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Primary model\n  \u2192 OpenAI\n  \u2192 Anthropic\n  \u2192 Google Gemini\n\nFallback models\n  \u2192 Mistral\n  \u2192 Grok\n  \u2192 Qwen\n\nGateway\n  \u2192 LiteLLM\n  \u2192 OpenRouter\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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7\ufe0f\u20e3 Best Setup for an AI Coding Agent<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
For something like OpenClaw \/ Codex-style agents<\/strong> I recommend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Primary model:\nOpenAI GPT-4.1 \/ GPT-5\n\nCoding fallback:\nClaude Sonnet\n\nCheap background tasks:\nMistral \/ Qwen\n\nGateway:\nLiteLLM\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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\ud83d\udca1 Based on your workflow (DevOps, infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, coding automation), the best combination for you would be:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
LiteLLM gateway\n  \u251c\u2500\u2500 OpenAI\n  \u251c\u2500\u2500 Anthropic\n  \u251c\u2500\u2500 Google\n  \u2514\u2500\u2500 Mistral\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This gives best reasoning + redundancy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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