Providers and default models

Open Backend → Core Services → Archie AI and make sure Archie AI is active.

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Providers

The Providers tab lists the providers your apps can use: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Each provider has an on/off switch and shows Disabled until you turn it on. Archie manages the keys and bills AI credits. When you enable a provider that uses Archie’s key, the card reads “Ready to use · no setup needed” and shows a Use your own key button marked Enterprise.

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Use your own key

On an Enterprise plan, you can bring your own provider key:

1. Enable the provider and click Use your own key.
2. Enter the key in the API key field and click Save key.

Archie sends the key once and never shows it again. Afterwards, the card shows only the last characters as Stored key. With your own key, requests are billed by the provider. Click Replace key to change it, or Use Archie’s key to switch back.

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Default models

The Default models tab sets the models your apps get when a request doesn’t name one. Only active models from enabled providers can be chosen.

• Chat sets the default chat model. Until you enable a provider, the tab shows “Enable a provider to choose a chat model.”
• Embeddings sets the default model for generating embeddings.

Both selectors start at No default. Each option can show metadata such as its context size or its number of dimensions. If a default model later becomes unavailable, the tab warns you. It reports that the model is deprecated, that its provider is disabled, or that it’s no longer in the catalog, and it suggests a replacement when one exists.

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