
Using OpenClaw with PayPerQ
Learn how to configure OpenClaw (Clawdbot) to use PayPerQ's API for pay-per-use access to Claude and hundreds of other AI models.
What is OpenClaw?
OpenClaw is an app that can connect to many of your personal apps (whatsapp, telegram, email, slack, many more), and serve as an assistant or agent for many activities and automated tasks.
Step by Step Configuration
1. Download OpenClaw
Download and install OpenClaw from the official GitHub repository.
2. Get Your PayPerQ API Key
Navigate to ppq.ai/api-docs and copy your API key. It starts with sk-.
3. Update Your OpenClaw Config File
Add the models attribute to your ~/.clawdbot.json/clawdbot.json file:
"models": {
"mode": "merge",
"providers": {
"ppq.ai": {
"baseUrl": "https://api.ppq.ai",
"apiKey": "sk-YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
"api": "openai-completions",
"models": [
{
"id": "claude-opus-4.5",
"name": "Claude Opus 4.5",
"reasoning": false,
"input": ["text"],
"cost": {
"input": 0,
"output": 0,
"cacheRead": 0,
"cacheWrite": 0
},
"contextWindow": 200000,
"maxTokens": 8192
}
]
}
}
}
Important: Replace sk-YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your actual PayPerQ API key from ppq.ai/api-docs.
4. Restart the Gateway
Restart the gateway to apply your configuration changes:
openclaw gateway restart
Some Good Models to Try
We recommend using Anthropic Sonnet models for this tool, but these coding friendly models may work as well:
- moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 - Moonshot AI's advanced reasoning model
- mistralai/devstral-2512 - Mistral AI's development model
- kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro - Kwaipilot's professional coding model
- google/gemini-3-flash-preview - Google's latest multimodal AI
- z-ai/glm-4.7 - Z-AI's powerful model
- minimax/minimax-m2.1 - MiniMax's advanced model
- x-ai/grok-code-fast-1 - X.AI's rapid coding model
- And many more premium models
Get the Most Recent Models
Want to see all available models? You can fetch the most up-to-date list directly from PayPerQ's API:
curl https://api.ppq.ai/v1/models
This endpoint returns a JSON list of all currently available models on PayPerQ.
Verify Your Setup
Once OpenClaw is running with your PayPerQ configuration, you can verify requests are being processed by checking your usage history at ppq.ai/account-activity.
Problems?
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