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Big-AGI starts empty: connecting an AI service is what fills it with models. One key from one service is enough to start: no minimum spend, and a second service costs nothing to add. A key is not a chat subscription: AI services sell their consumer chat product and their API as two accounts with two balances.
- ▪Big-AGI starts empty: connecting an AI service is what fills it with models.
- ▪One key from one service is enough to start: no minimum spend, and a second service costs nothing to add.
- ▪A key is not a chat subscription: AI services sell their consumer chat product and their API as two accounts with two balances.
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Record
| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://big-agi.com/docs/connect-models |
| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:58:34 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-30T22:07:33.834Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-30T22:07:33.834Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | RaPBOuhHUmE_ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Big-AGI starts empty: connecting an AI service is what fills it with models. One key from one service is enough to start: no minimum spend, and a second service costs nothing to add. A key is not a chat subscription: AI services sell their consumer chat product and their API as two accounts with two balances. A ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription therefore carries no key, and Anthropic states it directly. The key comes from the service's developer console, on its own balance. Where to start Open one of the four the app offers first: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or OpenRouter. Want a specific vendor's own models - go to that vendor. Want the fewest steps to a working key - OpenRouter. Want to try without a payment method - Gemini has a FREE tier, on its own terms about what you send.
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