Providers

We support several LLM providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Deepseek, Azure, and any OpenAI-compatible server (e.g. ollama, llama-cpp-python).

To select a provider and model, run gptme with the -m/--model flag set to <provider>/<model>, for example:

gptme --model openai/gpt-4o "hello"
gptme --model anthropic "hello"  # if model part unspecified, will fall back to the provider default
gptme --model openrouter/meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct "hello"
gptme --model deepseek/deepseek-reasoner "hello"
gptme --model gemini/gemini-1.5-flash-latest "hello"
gptme --model groq/llama-3.3-70b-versatile "hello"
gptme --model xai/grok-beta "hello"
gptme --model local/llama3.2:1b "hello"

On first startup, if --model is not set, and no API keys are set in the config or environment it will be prompted for. It will then auto-detect the provider, and save the key in the configuration file.

You can list the models known to gptme using gptme '/models' - '/exit'

Use the [env] section in the Global config file to store API keys using the same format as the environment variables:

• OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"

• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-api-key"

• OPENROUTER_API_KEY="your-api-key"

• GEMINI_API_KEY="your-api-key"

• XAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"

• GROQ_API_KEY="your-api-key"

• DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Local

You can use local LLM models using any OpenAI API-compatible server.

To achieve that with ollama, install it then run:

ollama pull llama3.2:1b
ollama serve
OPENAI_BASE_URL="http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1" gptme 'hello' -m local/llama3.2:1b

Note

Small models won’t work well with tools, severely limiting the usefulness of gptme. You can find an overview of how different models perform on the Evals page.