Course: Advanced OpenClaw | Pathway: Builder | Level: Advanced Estimated Reading Time: 20 minutes
One of OpenClaw's most powerful features is model flexibility. You are not locked into a single AI provider or a single model. You can run local models through Ollama, cloud models through API keys, and mix them across agents and even within a single agent's fallback chain.
Getting model strategy right is the difference between a system that costs nothing and runs reliably, and one that burns through API credits and falls over when a provider has an outage.
This lesson covers how to choose models for different tasks, configure fallback chains, manage costs, and handle the rate limits that every cloud provider imposes.
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