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GMI Cloud is a hosted inference platform for frontier and open-weight models behind an OpenAI-compatible API. In OpenClaw it is a bundled model provider, which means you can select it with the provider id gmi, 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 Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Z.AI routes exposed by GMI’s catalog. It is useful 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. This provider uses OpenAI-compatible chat semantics. OpenClaw owns the provider id, auth profile, aliases, model catalog seed, and base URL; GMI owns the live model availability, billing, rate limits, and any provider-side routing policy.

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Setup

Create an API key in GMI Cloud, then run: 
openclaw onboard --auth-choice gmi-api-key
Or set: 
export GMI_API_KEY="<your-gmi-api-key>" # pragma: allowlist secret

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Defaults

  • Provider: gmi
  • Aliases: gmi-cloud, gmicloud
  • Base URL: https://api.gmi-serving.com/v1
  • Env var: GMI_API_KEY
  • Default model: gmi/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite

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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 OpenRouter, DeepInfra, 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 Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, or SGLang when data locality or local GPU control matters more than hosted convenience.

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Models

The bundled catalog seeds commonly available GMI Cloud route ids, including:
  • gmi/zai-org/GLM-5.1-FP8
  • gmi/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2
  • gmi/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
  • gmi/google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite
  • gmi/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
  • gmi/openai/gpt-5.4
The catalog is a seed, not a promise that every account can call every model at all times. Use OpenClaw’s model listing command to see what the configured provider reports in your environment: 
openclaw models list --provider gmi

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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.