adolf/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 routes requests to popular open source and frontier models behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint and API key. Most OpenAI SDKs work against it by switching the base URL.

Install plugin

openclaw plugins install @openclaw/deepinfra-provider
openclaw gateway restart

Get an API key

1. Sign in at deepinfra.com
2. Go to Dashboard / Keys and generate a 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-V4-Flash" },
    },
  },
}

Supported surfaces

Chat, image generation, and video generation refresh their model catalogs live from https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai/models?sort_by=openclaw&filter=with_meta once DEEPINFRA_API_KEY is configured. Other surfaces use the static defaults below until they move onto the same live catalog.

Surface	Default model	OpenClaw config/tool
Chat / model provider	first chat-tagged entry from live catalog (static fallback deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash)	agents.defaults.model
Image generation/editing	first image-gen-tagged entry from live catalog (static fallback 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	static fallback Pixverse/Pixverse-T2V (no live video-gen rows from DeepInfra today)	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 has no provider contract for those categories yet, so this plugin does not register them.

Available models

OpenClaw discovers DeepInfra models dynamically once a key is configured. Use /models deepinfra or openclaw models list --provider deepinfra to see the current list.

Any model on deepinfra.com works with the deepinfra/ prefix:

deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash
deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2
deepinfra/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5
deepinfra/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
deepinfra/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B
deepinfra/zai-org/GLM-5.1
...and many more

Notes

• Model refs are deepinfra/<provider>/<model> (for example deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max).
• Default chat model: deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash
• Base URL: https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai
• Native video generation uses https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/inference/<model>.

Related

• Model providers
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