openclaw/docs/providers/qwen.md

summary: "Use Qwen Cloud via OpenClaw's bundled qwen provider" read_when:

• You want to use Qwen with OpenClaw
• You previously used Qwen OAuth title: "Qwen"

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Qwen

Qwen OAuth has been removed. The free-tier OAuth integration (qwen-portal) that used portal.qwen.ai endpoints is no longer available. See Issue #49557 for background.

Recommended: Qwen Cloud

OpenClaw now treats Qwen as a first-class bundled provider with canonical id qwen. The bundled provider targets the Qwen Cloud / Alibaba DashScope and Coding Plan endpoints and keeps legacy modelstudio ids working as a compatibility alias.

• Provider: qwen
• Preferred env var: QWEN_API_KEY
• Also accepted for compatibility: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY, DASHSCOPE_API_KEY
• API style: OpenAI-compatible

If you want qwen3.6-plus, prefer the Standard (pay-as-you-go) endpoint. Coding Plan support can lag behind the public catalog.

# Global Coding Plan endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-api-key

# China Coding Plan endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-api-key-cn

# Global Standard (pay-as-you-go) endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key

# China Standard (pay-as-you-go) endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key-cn

Legacy modelstudio-* auth-choice ids and modelstudio/... model refs still work.

After onboarding, set a default model:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "qwen/qwen3.5-plus" },
    },
  },
}

Capability plan

The qwen extension is being positioned as the vendor home for the full Qwen Cloud surface, not just coding/text models.

• Text/chat models: bundled now
• Tool calling, structured output, thinking: inherited from the OpenAI-compatible transport
• Image generation: planned at the provider-plugin layer
• Image/video understanding: bundled now on the Standard endpoint
• Speech/audio: planned at the provider-plugin layer
• Memory embeddings/reranking: planned through the embedding adapter surface
• Video generation: bundled now through the shared video-generation capability

Multimodal add-ons

The qwen extension now also exposes:

• Video understanding via qwen-vl-max-latest
• Wan video generation via models such as wan2.6-t2v, wan2.6-i2v, and wan2.6-r2v

These multimodal surfaces use the Standard DashScope endpoints, not the Coding Plan endpoints.

• Global/Intl Standard base URL: https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
• China Standard base URL: https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

For video generation, set a default model explicitly:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      videoGenerationModel: { primary: "qwen/wan2.6-t2v" },
    },
  },
}

See Qwen / Model Studio for endpoint-level detail and compatibility notes.