Connect your AI (OpenRouter)

The OpenRouter account that pays for your Chirps' answers, models, web search and images.

• What OpenRouter is, and who pays for whatOpenRouter runs the AI models your Chirps use and bills your own account for them. Your plan covers everything else.
• Create your OpenRouter account and keySign up at OpenRouter, add some credit, and make a key with a spending limit for your Chirps.
• Connect your OpenRouter keyConnect your OpenRouter account so your Chirps can answer visitors.
• Keep your AI spending in checkPut a credit limit on your OpenRouter key, and use each Chirp's visitor limits, so a busy Chirp never spends more than you plan.
• Choose your Chirp's AI modelPick the AI model that writes a Chirp's answers, and set its temperature and reply length.
• Let visitors switch between modelsOffer visitors a choice of AI models in a small menu at the top of the chat.
• Web search and image creationLet a Chirp look things up online with sources, and create pictures in the chat.
• See what your Chirps costYour dashboard and Analytics show about what your Chirps cost on OpenRouter; OpenRouter's own Activity page is the bill.