openclaw promos

Discover and claim promotional model offers published on ClawHub. Claiming a promotion configures the provider (auth and plugin, when needed) and registers the promotion's models — without re-running onboarding and without changing your default model unless you say so.

Related:

• Default model and fallbacks: Models
• Provider auth setup: Getting started

Commands

openclaw promos list
openclaw promos claim <slug>
openclaw promos claim <slug> --api-key <key> --set-default

openclaw promos list

Lists promotions that are currently live, with their models, the suggested default, time remaining, and the exact claim command. --json prints the raw payload.

openclaw promos claim <slug>

Claims a live promotion:

1. Fetches the promotion from ClawHub and verifies it is inside its window.
2. Validates the promotion's provider, auth choice, and declared plugin packages against your installed OpenClaw version. Unknown ids or package mismatches are refused — a promotion can never make the CLI run anything it does not already know how to do.
3. Reuses your existing provider credentials when you have them. Otherwise it walks the provider's normal auth flow (printing the promotion's signup URL for a free key first). --api-key <key> completes API-key auth without prompts, matching the openclaw onboard non-interactive flags; to keep the key off the command line, export the provider's environment variable instead (for example OPENROUTER_API_KEY) — existing env credentials are detected automatically and no flag is needed.
4. Registers the promotion's models with their aliases. Existing aliases are never overwritten.
5. Offers to set the promotion's suggested model as your default — --set-default skips the question; otherwise nothing about your defaults changes.

When the promotion's window ends, the provider stops serving the free models; your configuration and credentials are untouched. Switch back anytime with openclaw models set <model>.

Passive discovery in models list

openclaw models list also surfaces promotions without you asking ClawHub directly:

• Live offers whose models you have not configured appear in an "Available via promotion" group below the table, each with its claim command.
• Models you registered through promos claim carry a promo tag, which flips to promo ended once the offer's window passes.
• The first time a new offer is seen, a one-time notice points at openclaw promos list. Offers you have already listed or claimed are never announced again.

This reads a locally cached copy of ClawHub's hosted promotions feed (normally refreshed once a day with a conditional request, or earlier when the cached snapshot expires; refresh failures are silently skipped). A stale refresh waits at most 2.5 seconds and never breaks the listing. --json and --plain output stay machine-clean: no promotion sections or notices. Claiming always revalidates against the live ClawHub API, so an offer withdrawn early is refused even while a cached copy still shows it.