Add SaladCloud AI Gateway provider

core/llm/llms/OpenAI-compatible.vitest.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import NCompass from "./NCompass.js";
 import LlamaStack from "./LlamaStack.js";
 import Nebius from "./Nebius.js";
 import OVHcloud from "./OVHcloud.js";
+import SaladCloud from "./SaladCloud.js";
 
 // Base OpenAI tests
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, test, vi } from "vitest";
@@ -457,3 +458,13 @@ createOpenAISubclassTests(OVHcloud, {
   providerName: "ovhcloud",
   defaultApiBase: "https://oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/v1/",
 });
+
+createOpenAISubclassTests(SaladCloud, {
+  providerName: "saladcloud",
+  defaultApiBase: "https://ai.salad.cloud/v1/",
+  customBodyOptions: {
+    chat_template_kwargs: {
+      enable_thinking: false,
+    },
+  },
+});

core/llm/llms/SaladCloud.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { ChatCompletionCreateParams } from "openai/resources/index";
+import { ChatMessage, CompletionOptions, LLMOptions } from "../..";
+
+import OpenAI from "./OpenAI";
+
+class SaladCloud extends OpenAI {
+  static providerName = "saladcloud";
+  static defaultOptions: Partial<LLMOptions> = {
+    apiBase: "https://ai.salad.cloud/v1/",
+    useLegacyCompletionsEndpoint: false,
+  };
+
+  protected _convertArgs(
+    options: CompletionOptions,
+    messages: ChatMessage[],
+  ): ChatCompletionCreateParams {
+    return this.addDefaultChatTemplateKwargs(
+      super._convertArgs(options, messages),
+    );
+  }
+
+  protected modifyChatBody(
+    body: ChatCompletionCreateParams,
+  ): ChatCompletionCreateParams {
+    return this.addDefaultChatTemplateKwargs(super.modifyChatBody(body));
+  }
+
+  private addDefaultChatTemplateKwargs(
+    body: ChatCompletionCreateParams,
+  ): ChatCompletionCreateParams {
+    const extendedBody = body as ChatCompletionCreateParams & {
+      chat_template_kwargs?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    };
+    const existingKwargs =
+      extendedBody.chat_template_kwargs &&
+      typeof extendedBody.chat_template_kwargs === "object" &&
+      !Array.isArray(extendedBody.chat_template_kwargs)
+        ? extendedBody.chat_template_kwargs
+        : {};
+
+    extendedBody.chat_template_kwargs = {
+      enable_thinking: false,
+      ...existingKwargs,
+    };
+
+    return extendedBody;
+  }
+}
+
+export default SaladCloud;

core/llm/llms/SaladCloud.vitest.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import SaladCloud from "./SaladCloud.js";
+
+describe("SaladCloud", () => {
+  it("disables Qwen thinking output by default", () => {
+    const saladCloud = new SaladCloud({
+      apiKey: "test-api-key",
+      model: "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
+    });
+
+    const body = (saladCloud as any)._convertArgs(
+      {
+        model: "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
+        maxTokens: 128,
+      },
+      [{ role: "user", content: "hello" }],
+    );
+
+    expect(body.chat_template_kwargs).toEqual({
+      enable_thinking: false,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("preserves explicitly provided chat template kwargs", () => {
+    const saladCloud = new SaladCloud({
+      apiKey: "test-api-key",
+      model: "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
+    });
+
+    const body = (saladCloud as any).modifyChatBody({
+      model: "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
+      messages: [],
+      chat_template_kwargs: {
+        enable_thinking: true,
+        custom: "value",
+      },
+    });
+
+    expect(body.chat_template_kwargs).toEqual({
+      enable_thinking: true,
+      custom: "value",
+    });
+  });
+});

core/llm/llms/index.ts

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ import OVHcloud from "./OVHcloud";
 import { Relace } from "./Relace";
 import Replicate from "./Replicate";
 import SageMaker from "./SageMaker";
+import SaladCloud from "./SaladCloud";
 import SambaNova from "./SambaNova";
 import Scaleway from "./Scaleway";
 import SiliconFlow from "./SiliconFlow";
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ export const LLMClasses = [
   ClawRouter,
   Nvidia,
   Vllm,
+  SaladCloud,
   SambaNova,
   MockLLM,
   TestLLM,

core/llm/toolSupport.test.ts

@@ -125,6 +125,20 @@ describe("PROVIDER_TOOL_SUPPORT", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe("saladcloud", () => {
+    const supportsFn = PROVIDER_TOOL_SUPPORT["saladcloud"];
+
+    it("should return true for SaladCloud Qwen models", () => {
+      expect(supportsFn("qwen3.6-35b-a3b")).toBe(true);
+      expect(supportsFn("qwen3.6-27b")).toBe(true);
+      expect(supportsFn("qwen3.5-9b")).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it("should return false for unverified SaladCloud models", () => {
+      expect(supportsFn("gemma-4-26b-a4b-instruct")).toBe(false);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe("cohere", () => {
     const supportsFn = PROVIDER_TOOL_SUPPORT["cohere"];
 

core/llm/toolSupport.ts

@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ export const PROVIDER_TOOL_SUPPORT: Record<string, (model: string) => boolean> =
 
       return false;
     },
+    saladcloud: (model) => {
+      const lower = model.toLowerCase();
+      return lower.startsWith("qwen3.5-") || lower.startsWith("qwen3.6-");
+    },
     cohere: (model) => {
       const lower = model.toLowerCase();
       if (lower.startsWith("command-a-vision")) {

docs/customize/model-providers/more/saladcloud.mdx

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+title: "SaladCloud"
+description: "Configure SaladCloud AI Gateway with Continue"
+---
+
+You can get an API key from the [SaladCloud portal](https://portal.salad.com/api-key)
+
+## Available Models
+
+Available models can be found on the [SaladCloud AI Gateway pricing page](https://docs.salad.com/ai-gateway/reference/pricing). Continue includes presets for the Qwen models currently returned by SaladCloud's `/v1/models` endpoint: `qwen3.6-35b-a3b`, `qwen3.6-27b`, and `qwen3.5-9b`.
+
+## Chat Model
+
+<Tabs>
+  <Tab title="YAML">
+  ```yaml title="config.yaml"
+  name: My Config
+  version: 0.0.1
+  schema: v1
+
+  models:
+    - name: Qwen 3.6 35B A3B
+      provider: saladcloud
+      model: qwen3.6-35b-a3b
+      apiKey: <YOUR_SALAD_CLOUD_API_KEY>
+  ```
+  </Tab>
+  <Tab title="JSON">
+  ```json title="config.json"
+  {
+    "models": [
+      {
+        "title": "Qwen 3.6 35B A3B",
+        "provider": "saladcloud",
+        "model": "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
+        "apiKey": "<YOUR_SALAD_CLOUD_API_KEY>"
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+  ```
+  </Tab>
+</Tabs>
+
+<Note>
+  Continue disables Qwen thinking output by default with
+  `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking: false`. To enable thinking, add
+  `requestOptions.extraBodyProperties.chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking` and
+  set it to `true` in your model configuration.
+</Note>
+
+## Embeddings Model
+
+SaladCloud AI Gateway currently focuses on chat/completion models.

gui/src/pages/AddNewModel/configs/models.ts

@@ -3310,6 +3310,52 @@ export const models: { [key: string]: ModelPackage } = {
     isOpenSource: false,
   },
 
+  // SaladCloud models
+  saladQwen36_35bA3B: {
+    title: "Qwen 3.6 35B A3B",
+    description:
+      "Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is a fast mixture-of-experts model with 35B total parameters and 3B active, available via SaladCloud AI Gateway.",
+    refUrl: "https://docs.salad.com/ai-gateway/explanation/overview",
+    params: {
+      title: "Qwen 3.6 35B A3B",
+      model: "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
+      contextLength: 262_144,
+      capabilities: { tools: true },
+    },
+    icon: "qwen.png",
+    providerOptions: ["saladcloud"],
+    isOpenSource: true,
+  },
+  saladQwen36_27b: {
+    title: "Qwen 3.6 27B",
+    description:
+      "Qwen 3.6 27B is a capable instruction-tuned model available via SaladCloud AI Gateway with a 256K context window.",
+    refUrl: "https://docs.salad.com/ai-gateway/explanation/overview",
+    params: {
+      title: "Qwen 3.6 27B",
+      model: "qwen3.6-27b",
+      contextLength: 262_144,
+      capabilities: { tools: true },
+    },
+    icon: "qwen.png",
+    providerOptions: ["saladcloud"],
+    isOpenSource: true,
+  },
+  saladQwen35_9b: {
+    title: "Qwen 3.5 9B",
+    description:
+      "Qwen 3.5 9B is a lightweight and efficient model available via SaladCloud AI Gateway.",
+    refUrl: "https://docs.salad.com/ai-gateway/explanation/overview",
+    params: {
+      title: "Qwen 3.5 9B",
+      model: "qwen3.5-9b",
+      contextLength: 262_144,
+      capabilities: { tools: true },
+    },
+    icon: "qwen.png",
+    providerOptions: ["saladcloud"],
+    isOpenSource: true,
+  },
   // Xiaomi Mimo models
   mimoV2Flash: {
     title: "mimo-v2-flash",

gui/src/pages/AddNewModel/configs/providers.ts

@@ -996,6 +996,33 @@ To get started, [register](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/registration/stepo
       models.MetaLlama3,
     ],
   },
+  saladcloud: {
+    title: "SaladCloud",
+    provider: "saladcloud",
+    refPage: "saladcloud",
+    description: "Use SaladCloud AI Gateway to access open-source models",
+    longDescription: `SaladCloud AI Gateway provides OpenAI-compatible access to open-source models at flat-rate pricing. To get started:\n1. Sign up at [salad.com](https://salad.com)\n2. Obtain an API key from the [SaladCloud portal](https://portal.salad.com)\n3. Paste below\n4. Select a model preset`,
+    tags: [ModelProviderTags.RequiresApiKey, ModelProviderTags.OpenSource],
+    params: {
+      apiKey: "",
+    },
+    collectInputFor: [
+      {
+        inputType: "text",
+        key: "apiKey",
+        label: "API Key",
+        placeholder: "Enter your SaladCloud API key",
+        required: true,
+      },
+      ...completionParamsInputsConfigs,
+    ],
+    packages: [
+      models.saladQwen36_35bA3B,
+      models.saladQwen36_27b,
+      models.saladQwen35_9b,
+    ],
+    apiKeyUrl: "https://portal.salad.com/api-key",
+  },
   sambanova: {
     title: "SambaNova",
     provider: "sambanova",