openclaw/docs/providers/qwen_modelstudio.md

title: "Qwen / Model Studio" summary: "Endpoint detail for the bundled qwen provider and its legacy modelstudio compatibility surface" read_when:

• You want endpoint-level detail for Qwen Cloud / Alibaba DashScope
• You need the env var compatibility story for the qwen provider
• You want to use the Standard (pay-as-you-go) or Coding Plan endpoint

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Qwen / Model Studio (Alibaba Cloud)

This page documents the endpoint mapping behind OpenClaw's bundled qwen provider. The provider keeps modelstudio provider ids, auth-choice ids, and model refs working as compatibility aliases while qwen becomes the canonical surface.

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: qwen (legacy alias: modelstudio)
• Auth: QWEN_API_KEY
• Also accepted: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY, DASHSCOPE_API_KEY
• API: OpenAI-compatible

Quick start

Standard (pay-as-you-go)

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

# Global/Intl endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key

Coding Plan (subscription)

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

# Global/Intl endpoint
openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-api-key

Legacy modelstudio-* auth-choice ids still work.

After onboarding, set a default model:

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

Plan types and endpoints

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

Native Model Studio endpoints advertise streaming usage compatibility on the shared openai-completions transport. OpenClaw keys that off endpoint capabilities now, so DashScope-compatible custom provider ids targeting the same native hosts inherit the same streaming-usage behavior instead of requiring the built-in qwen provider id specifically.

Get your API key

• Manage keys: home.qwencloud.com/api-keys
• Docs: docs.qwencloud.com

Built-in catalog

OpenClaw currently ships this bundled Qwen catalog:

Model ref	Input	Context	Notes
qwen/qwen3.5-plus	text, image	1,000,000	Default model
qwen/qwen3.6-plus	text, image	1,000,000	Prefer Standard endpoints when you need this model
qwen/qwen3-max-2026-01-23	text	262,144	Qwen Max line
qwen/qwen3-coder-next	text	262,144	Coding
qwen/qwen3-coder-plus	text	1,000,000	Coding
qwen/MiniMax-M2.5	text	1,000,000	Reasoning enabled
qwen/glm-5	text	202,752	GLM
qwen/glm-4.7	text	202,752	GLM
qwen/kimi-k2.5	text, image	262,144	Moonshot AI via Alibaba

Availability can still vary by endpoint and billing plan even when a model is present in the bundled catalog.

Native-streaming usage compatibility applies to both the Coding Plan hosts and the Standard DashScope-compatible hosts:

• https://coding.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
• https://coding-intl.dashscope.aliyuncs.com/v1
• https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1
• https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1

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 QWEN_API_KEY is available to that process (for example, in ~/.openclaw/.env or via env.shellEnv).