GMI Cloud

GMI Cloud is a hosted inference platform for frontier and open-weight models behind an OpenAI-compatible API. In OpenClaw it is an official external provider plugin: install it once, store credentials through normal model auth, and use model refs like gmi/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite.

Use GMI when you want one API key for several hosted model families, including Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Moonshot, OpenAI, and Z.AI routes exposed by GMI's catalog. It works as a secondary provider for model fallback, for comparing hosted routes across vendors, or when GMI has a model available before your primary provider does. OpenClaw owns the provider id, auth profile, aliases, model catalog seed, and base URL; GMI owns live model availability, billing, rate limits, and any provider-side routing policy.

Setup

Install the plugin, restart the gateway, then create an API key in GMI Cloud (https://www.gmicloud.ai/):

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

Then run:

openclaw onboard --auth-choice gmi-api-key

Non-interactive setups can pass --gmi-api-key <key>, or set:

export GMI_API_KEY="<your-gmi-api-key>" # pragma: allowlist secret

When to choose GMI

• You want a hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoint rather than a local model server.
• You want to try several commercial and open-weight model families through one provider account.
• You want a fallback provider with different upstream routing from DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Together, or the direct vendor APIs.
• You need GMI-specific model ids, pricing, or account controls.

Choose the direct vendor provider instead when you need vendor-native features that GMI does not expose through its OpenAI-compatible route. Choose a local provider such as LM Studio, Ollama, SGLang, or vLLM when data locality or local GPU control matters more than hosted convenience.

Models

The plugin catalog seeds commonly available GMI Cloud route ids:

The catalog is a seed, not a promise that every account can call every model at all times. List what the configured provider reports in your environment:

openclaw models list --provider gmi

Troubleshooting

• 401 or 403: check that GMI_API_KEY is set for the process running OpenClaw, or re-run onboarding to store the key in the provider auth profile.
• Unknown model errors: confirm the model exists in your GMI account and use the full gmi/<route-id> ref shown by openclaw models list --provider gmi.
• Intermittent provider errors: try a different GMI route or configure GMI as a fallback rather than the only primary model provider.

Related

• Model providers
• All providers