Providers

Commander supports 25 LLM providers. Set any single environment variable—Commander auto-detects the provider.

Variable	Provider
OPENAI_API_KEY	OpenAI / DeepSeek / GLM / MiMo (fallback chain)
AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY	Azure OpenAI
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Anthropic Claude
GOOGLE_API_KEY	Google Gemini
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY	DeepSeek (dedicated)
ZHIPU_API_KEY	GLM (Zhipu AI)
MIMO_API_KEY	MiMo (dedicated)
XIAOMI_API_KEY	Xiaomi MiMo
GROQ_API_KEY	Groq (fast inference)
TOGETHER_API_KEY	Together AI
PERPLEXITY_API_KEY	Perplexity
FIREWORKS_API_KEY	Fireworks AI
REPLICATE_API_TOKEN	Replicate
MISTRAL_API_KEY	Mistral AI
CO_API_KEY	Cohere
OPENROUTER_API_KEY	OpenRouter (200+ models)
OLLAMA_BASE_URL / OLLAMA_API_KEY	Ollama (local)
VLLM_BASE_URL / VLLM_API_KEY	vLLM (local)
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	AWS Bedrock
XAI_API_KEY	xAI (Grok)
ANYSCALE_API_KEY	Anyscale
DEEPINFRA_API_KEY	DeepInfra
AGNES_API_KEY	Agnes
STEPFUN_API_KEY	StepFun
MINIMAX_API_KEY	MiniMax

Provider Selection

Commander uses a modelRouter.ts to select the optimal provider based on:

• Task complexity — harder tasks route to stronger models
• Cost constraints — simpler tasks use cheaper providers
• Latency requirements — time-sensitive tasks use faster inference (Groq, Together)
• Fallback chain — if primary provider fails, Commander automatically falls back

# The simplest setup—just one key lets Commander auto-select
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

Custom Providers

Implement the LLMProvider interface and register it:

import { BaseLLMProvider } from '@commander/core';

class MyProvider extends BaseLLMProvider {
  async call(messages, options) {
    // Your implementation
  }
}

runtime.registerProvider('my-provider', new MyProvider());