Providers

Synthetic

Synthetic exposes Anthropic-compatible endpoints. OpenClaw registers it as the synthetic provider and uses the Anthropic Messages API.

Property Value
Provider synthetic
Auth SYNTHETIC_API_KEY
API Anthropic Messages
Base URL https://api.synthetic.new/anthropic

Getting started

  • Get an API key

    Obtain a SYNTHETIC_API_KEY from your Synthetic account, or let the onboarding wizard prompt you for one.

  • Run onboarding

    openclaw onboard --auth-choice synthetic-api-key
    
  • Verify the default model

    After onboarding the default model is set to:

    synthetic/hf:MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5
    
  • Config example

    {
      env: { SYNTHETIC_API_KEY: "sk-..." },
      agents: {
        defaults: {
          model: { primary: "synthetic/hf:MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5" },
          models: { "synthetic/hf:MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5": { alias: "MiniMax M2.5" } },
        },
      },
      models: {
        mode: "merge",
        providers: {
          synthetic: {
            baseUrl: "https://api.synthetic.new/anthropic",
            apiKey: "${SYNTHETIC_API_KEY}",
            api: "anthropic-messages",
            models: [
              {
                id: "hf:MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5",
                name: "MiniMax M2.5",
                reasoning: false,
                input: ["text"],
                cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },
                contextWindow: 192000,
                maxTokens: 65536,
              },
            ],
          },
        },
      },
    }
    

    Built-in catalog

    All Synthetic models use cost 0 (input/output/cache).

    Model ID Context window Max tokens Reasoning Input
    hf:MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 192,000 65,536 no text
    hf:moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking 256,000 8,192 yes text
    hf:zai-org/GLM-4.7 198,000 128,000 no text
    hf:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 159,000 8,192 no text
    hf:meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 524,000 8,192 no text
    hf:moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 256,000 8,192 no text
    hf:moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 256,000 8,192 yes text + image
    hf:openai/gpt-oss-120b 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 256,000 8,192 no text
    hf:Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct 256,000 8,192 no text
    hf:Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct 250,000 8,192 no text + image
    hf:zai-org/GLM-4.5 128,000 128,000 no text
    hf:zai-org/GLM-4.6 198,000 128,000 no text
    hf:zai-org/GLM-5 256,000 128,000 yes text + image
    hf:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 128,000 8,192 no text
    hf:Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 256,000 8,192 yes text
    Model allowlist

    If you enable a model allowlist (agents.defaults.models), add every Synthetic model you plan to use. Models not in the allowlist will be hidden from the agent.

    Base URL override

    If Synthetic changes its API endpoint, override the base URL in your config:

    {
      models: {
        providers: {
          synthetic: {
            baseUrl: "https://new-api.synthetic.new/anthropic",
          },
        },
      },
    }
    

    Remember that OpenClaw appends /v1 automatically.