docs/providers/vercel-ai-gateway.md

metadata

title: Vercel AI Gateway
summary: Vercel AI Gateway setup (auth + model selection)
read_when:
  - You want to use Vercel AI Gateway with OpenClaw
  - You need the API key env var or CLI auth choice

Vercel AI Gateway

The Vercel AI Gateway provides a unified API to access hundreds of models through a single endpoint.

• Provider: vercel-ai-gateway
• Auth: AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
• API: Anthropic Messages compatible

Quick start

1. Set the API key (recommended: store it for the Gateway):

openclaw onboard --auth-choice ai-gateway-api-key

2. Set a default model:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "vercel-ai-gateway/anthropic/claude-opus-4.5" },
    },
  },
}

Non-interactive example

openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --mode local \
  --auth-choice ai-gateway-api-key \
  --ai-gateway-api-key "$AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"

Environment note

If the Gateway runs as a daemon (launchd/systemd), make sure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY is available to that process (for example, in ~/.openclaw/.env or via env.shellEnv).