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Alibaba Model Studio

Alibaba Model Studio

OpenClaw ships a bundled alibaba video-generation provider for Wan models on Alibaba Model Studio / DashScope.

Provider: alibaba
Preferred auth: MODELSTUDIO_API_KEY
Also accepted: DASHSCOPE_API_KEY, QWEN_API_KEY
API: DashScope / Model Studio async video generation

Quick start

Set an API key:

openclaw onboard --auth-choice qwen-standard-api-key

Set a default video model:

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      videoGenerationModel: {
        primary: "alibaba/wan2.6-t2v",
      },
    },
  },
}

Built-in Wan models

The bundled alibaba provider currently registers:

alibaba/wan2.6-t2v
alibaba/wan2.6-i2v
alibaba/wan2.6-r2v
alibaba/wan2.6-r2v-flash
alibaba/wan2.7-r2v

Current limits

Up to 1 output video per request
Up to 1 input image
Up to 4 input videos
Up to 10 seconds duration
Supports size, aspectRatio, resolution, audio, and watermark
Reference image/video mode currently requires remote http(s) URLs

Relationship to Qwen

The bundled qwen provider also uses Alibaba-hosted DashScope endpoints for Wan video generation. Use:

qwen/... when you want the canonical Qwen provider surface
alibaba/... when you want the direct vendor-owned Wan video surface