Choose a model provider
Picking among the 13 supported BYOK providers for your agent.
All 13 providers are first-class: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Together, Fireworks, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Cohere, and NVIDIA.
Quick guidance
- Widest skill compatibility: OpenAI.
- Long context and careful tool use: Anthropic.
- Lowest cost for strong reasoning: DeepSeek.
- Fastest replies: Groq.
- Web-grounded answers: Perplexity.
- Experiment across many models with one key: OpenRouter.
See the per-provider pages under OpenClaw hosting for details, e.g. /openclaw-hosting/anthropic.