openclaw/docs/providers/deepinfra.md

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Use DeepInfra's unified API to access the most popular open source and frontier models in OpenClaw	You want a single API key for the top open source LLMs You want to run models via DeepInfra's API in OpenClaw	DeepInfra

DeepInfra provides a unified API that routes requests to the most popular open source and frontier models behind a single endpoint and API key. It is OpenAI-compatible, so most OpenAI SDKs work by switching the base URL.

Getting an API key

1. Go to https://deepinfra.com/
2. Sign in or create an account
3. Navigate to Dashboard / Keys and generate a new API key or use the auto created one

CLI setup

openclaw onboard --deepinfra-api-key <key>

Or set the environment variable:

export DEEPINFRA_API_KEY="<your-deepinfra-api-key>" # pragma: allowlist secret

Config snippet

{
  env: { DEEPINFRA_API_KEY: "<your-deepinfra-api-key>" }, // pragma: allowlist secret
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2" },
    },
  },
}

Supported OpenClaw surfaces

The bundled plugin registers all DeepInfra surfaces that match current OpenClaw provider contracts:

Surface	Default model	OpenClaw config/tool
Chat / model provider	deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2	agents.defaults.model
Image generation/editing	black-forest-labs/FLUX-1-schnell	image_generate, agents.defaults.imageGenerationModel
Media understanding	moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 for images	inbound image understanding
Speech-to-text	openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo	inbound audio transcription
Text-to-speech	hexgrad/Kokoro-82M	messages.tts.provider: "deepinfra"
Video generation	Pixverse/Pixverse-T2V	video_generate, agents.defaults.videoGenerationModel
Memory embeddings	BAAI/bge-m3	agents.defaults.memorySearch.provider: "deepinfra"

DeepInfra also exposes reranking, classification, object-detection, and other native model types. OpenClaw does not currently have first-class provider contracts for those categories, so this plugin does not register them yet.

Available models

OpenClaw dynamically discovers available DeepInfra models at startup. Use /models deepinfra to see the full list of models available.

Any model available on DeepInfra.com can be used with the deepinfra/ prefix:

deepinfra/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5
deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2
deepinfra/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
deepinfra/zai-org/GLM-5.1
...and many more

Notes

• Model refs are deepinfra/<provider>/<model> (e.g., deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max).
• Default model: deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2
• Base URL: https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai
• Native video generation uses https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/inference/<model>.

Related

• Model providers
• All providers