openclaw/docs/providers/qwen_modelstudio.md

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Qwen / Model Studio Alibaba Cloud Model Studio setup (Standard pay-as-you-go and Coding Plan, dual region endpoints)
You want to use Qwen (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio) with OpenClaw
You need the API key env var for Model Studio
You want to use the Standard (pay-as-you-go) or Coding Plan endpoint

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).

If you need qwen3.6-plus, prefer Standard (pay-as-you-go). Coding Plan availability can lag behind the public Model Studio catalog, and the Coding Plan API can reject a model until it appears in your plan's supported model list.

  • Provider: modelstudio
  • Auth: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY
  • API: OpenAI-compatible

Quick start

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

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" },
    },
  },
}

Plan types and endpoints

Plan Region Auth choice Endpoint
Standard (pay-as-you-go) China modelstudio-standard-api-key-cn dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
Standard (pay-as-you-go) Global modelstudio-standard-api-key dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
Coding Plan (subscription) China modelstudio-api-key-cn coding.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
Coding Plan (subscription) Global modelstudio-api-key coding-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.

Get your API key

Available models

  • qwen3.5-plus (default) — Qwen 3.5 Plus
  • qwen3.6-plus — Qwen 3.6 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, qwen3.6-plus, kimi-k2.5) support image input. Context windows range from 200K to 1M tokens. Availability can vary by endpoint and billing plan.

Qwen 3.6 Plus availability

qwen3.6-plus is available on the Standard (pay-as-you-go) Model Studio endpoints:

  • China: dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
  • Global: dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

If the Coding Plan endpoints return an "unsupported model" error for qwen3.6-plus, switch to Standard (pay-as-you-go) instead of the Coding Plan endpoint/key pair.

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).