of Claude Code subscriptions to power OpenClaw. This urged me to seek alternative LLMs, considering API pricing for Claude Opus 4.6 is extremely high. I started off testing out OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, but encountered challenges with the model being lazy. I would, for example, ask it to perform a task I know it’s able to do, and experienced the model simply giving up after a few attempts. This is, of course, unacceptable when it comes to a helpful assistant, so I decided to start trying out other alternatives, and came across a suite of Chinese alternatives: Kimi-K2.5 GLM-5.1 MiniMax-M2.7  Kimi-K2.5 and GLM are open-source, while MiniMax is not. The goal of this article is to highlight how you can run OpenClaw with a lot of different models, highlight how to do it, and how to make your OpenClaw assistant effective. This infographic highlights the main contents of this article, where I’ll show you how to run OpenClaw with open source models such as Kimi-K2.5.…