Arcee AI

Arcee AI provides access to the Trinity family of mixture-of-experts models through an OpenAI-compatible API. All Trinity models are Apache 2.0 licensed.

Arcee AI models can be accessed directly via the Arcee platform or through OpenRouter.

Provider: arcee
Auth: ARCEEAI_API_KEY (direct) or OPENROUTER_API_KEY (via OpenRouter)
API: OpenAI-compatible
Base URL: https://api.arcee.ai/api/v1 (direct) or https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 (OpenRouter)

Quick start

Get an API key from Arcee AI or OpenRouter.
Set the API key (recommended: store it for the Gateway):

# Direct (Arcee platform)
openclaw onboard --auth-choice arceeai-api-key

# Via OpenRouter
openclaw onboard --auth-choice arceeai-openrouter

Set a default model:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "arcee/trinity-large-thinking" },
    },
  },
}

Non-interactive example

# Direct (Arcee platform)
openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --mode local \
  --auth-choice arceeai-api-key \
  --arceeai-api-key "$ARCEEAI_API_KEY"

# Via OpenRouter
openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --mode local \
  --auth-choice arceeai-openrouter \
  --openrouter-api-key "$OPENROUTER_API_KEY"

Environment note

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

Built-in catalog

OpenClaw currently ships this bundled Arcee catalog:

Model ref	Name	Input	Context	Cost (in/out per 1M)	Notes
`arcee/trinity-large-thinking`	Trinity Large Thinking	text	256K	$0.25 / $0.90	Default model; reasoning enabled
`arcee/trinity-large-preview`	Trinity Large Preview	text	128K	$0.25 / $1.00	General-purpose; 400B params, 13B active
`arcee/trinity-mini`	Trinity Mini 26B	text	128K	$0.045 / $0.15	Fast and cost-efficient; function calling

The same model refs work for both direct and OpenRouter setups (for example arcee/trinity-large-thinking).

The onboarding preset sets arcee/trinity-large-thinking as the default model.

Supported features

Streaming
Tool use / function calling
Structured output (JSON mode and JSON schema)
Extended thinking (Trinity Large Thinking)

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