Best LLM Providers for E-commerce AI Agents (2026)

WorkDaddy is model-agnostic by design: 178 providers and 5,970+ models, from frontier labs to local runtimes. Use the managed gateway, or bring any key you already have.

The best model for an e-commerce agent in 2026 depends on the job — long-context analysis, cheap bulk rewriting, vision for creative QA, or deep reasoning for strategy. WorkDaddy’s model layer supports 178 LLM providers out of the box, spanning frontier labs, aggregator gateways, China’s top model makers, GPU inference clouds, and fully local runtimes. Pick one, mix several, or let the managed gateway route each task. This directory profiles every provider: model counts, context windows, reasoning and vision support, and how to connect.

Aggregators & Gateways

NanoGPT

Models available: 617 · Largest context window: 10M

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Kilo Gateway

Models available: 346 · Largest context window: 2M

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OpenRouter

Models available: 336 · Largest context window: 2M

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Vercel AI Gateway

Models available: 312 · Largest context window: 2M

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LLM Gateway

Models available: 188 · Largest context window: 2M

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Merge Gateway

Models available: 151 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Poe

Models available: 137 · Largest context window: 2M

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ZenMux

Models available: 120 · Largest context window: 2M

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302.AI

Models available: 97 · Largest context window: 2M

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Abacus

Models available: 95 · Largest context window: 2M

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Helicone

Models available: 90 · Largest context window: 2M

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OpenCode Zen

Models available: 85 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Cloudflare AI Gateway

Models available: 84 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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OrcaRouter

Models available: 81 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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AIHubMix

Models available: 67 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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FastRouter

Models available: 47 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Requesty

Models available: 38 · Largest context window: 2M

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AnyAPI

Models available: 30 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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OpenCode Go

Models available: 23 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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UnoRouter

Models available: 23 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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routing.run

Models available: 15 · Largest context window: 1M

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TrustedRouter

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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AI-ROUTER

Models available: 5 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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China Model Providers

Qiniu

Models available: 91 · Largest context window: 100M

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Alibaba (China)

Models available: 85 · Largest context window: 10M

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Jiekou.AI

Models available: 61 · Largest context window: 2M

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Alibaba

Models available: 51 · Largest context window: 1M

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Alibaba Token Plan

Models available: 22 · Largest context window: 1M

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Alibaba Token Plan (China)

Models available: 22 · Largest context window: 1M

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iFlow

Models available: 14 · Largest context window: 256K

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Z.AI

Models available: 14 · Largest context window: 1M

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Zhipu AI

Models available: 13 · Largest context window: 1M

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Alibaba Coding Plan (China)

Models available: 12 · Largest context window: 1M

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Alibaba Coding Plan

Models available: 12 · Largest context window: 1M

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Moonshot AI (China)

Models available: 10 · Largest context window: 1M

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Moonshot AI

Models available: 10 · Largest context window: 1M

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QiHang

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 1M

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Tencent Coding Plan (China)

Models available: 8 · Largest context window: 262K

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StepFun (Global)

Models available: 8 · Largest context window: 256K

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StepFun (China)

Models available: 8 · Largest context window: 256K

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Zhipu AI Coding Plan

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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ModelScope

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 262K

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Xiaomi Token Plan (China)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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Xiaomi Token Plan (Europe)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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MiniMax (minimax.io)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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MiniMax Token Plan (minimax.io)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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Xiaomi Token Plan (Singapore)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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MiniMax (minimaxi.com)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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MiniMax Token Plan (minimaxi.com)

Models available: 7 · Largest context window: 1M

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Xiaomi

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 1M

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StepFun Step Plan (China)

Models available: 4 · Largest context window: 256K

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Z.AI Coding Plan

Models available: 4 · Largest context window: 1M

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Kimi For Coding

Models available: 4 · Largest context window: 1M

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EBCloud

Models available: 4 · Largest context window: 1M

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StepFun Step Plan (Global)

Models available: 3 · Largest context window: 256K

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D.Run (China)

Models available: 3 · Largest context window: 205K

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Tencent TokenHub

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 256K

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Bailing

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 128K

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KUAE Cloud Coding Plan

Models available: 1 · Largest context window: 205K

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Tencent Token Plan

Models available: 1 · Largest context window: 256K

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LongCat

Models available: 1 · Largest context window: 1M

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Inference Clouds

NovitaAI

Models available: 107 · Largest context window: 1M

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Nvidia

Models available: 98 · Largest context window: 1M

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Venice AI

Models available: 90 · Largest context window: 2M

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DigitalOcean

Models available: 82 · Largest context window: 1M

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Hugging Face

Models available: 56 · Largest context window: 1M

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SiliconFlow

Models available: 49 · Largest context window: 1M

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SiliconFlow (China)

Models available: 47 · Largest context window: 1M

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Deep Infra

Models available: 47 · Largest context window: 1M

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Together AI

Models available: 34 · Largest context window: 1M

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Nebius Token Factory

Models available: 33 · Largest context window: 1M

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Cloudflare Workers AI

Models available: 22 · Largest context window: 262K

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Baseten

Models available: 18 · Largest context window: 1M

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Fireworks AI

Models available: 17 · Largest context window: 1M

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IO.NET

Models available: 17 · Largest context window: 430K

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Groq

Models available: 15 · Largest context window: 131K

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Scaleway

Models available: 14 · Largest context window: 260K

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OVHcloud AI Endpoints

Models available: 14 · Largest context window: 262K

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GMI Cloud

Models available: 13 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Chutes

Models available: 13 · Largest context window: 1M

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Vultr

Models available: 10 · Largest context window: 1M

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Inference

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 125K

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Friendli

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 1M

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Upstage

Models available: 3 · Largest context window: 131K

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Cerebras

Models available: 3 · Largest context window: 131K

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Modal

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 1M

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Hetzner

Models available: 1 · Largest context window: 262K

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More Providers

Pioneer

Models available: 76 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Cortecs

Models available: 58 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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CrossModel

Models available: 48 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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EmpirioLabs AI

Models available: 39 · Largest context window: 1M

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Kenari

Models available: 38 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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NEAR AI Cloud

Models available: 37 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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GreenPT

Models available: 26 · Largest context window: 1M

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FrogBot

Models available: 26 · Largest context window: 2M

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CrofAI

Models available: 25 · Largest context window: 1M

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Charm Hyper

Models available: 24 · Largest context window: 1M

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TensorX

Models available: 23 · Largest context window: 1M

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Neuralwatt

Models available: 20 · Largest context window: 1M

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Meganova

Models available: 19 · Largest context window: 1M

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Vivgrid

Models available: 17 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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evroc

Models available: 16 · Largest context window: 1M

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Model Oracle AI

Models available: 15 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Auriko

Models available: 15 · Largest context window: 1M

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Regolo AI

Models available: 13 · Largest context window: 262K

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Ofox

Models available: 13 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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Xpersona

Models available: 13 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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FreeModel

Models available: 10 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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DaoXE

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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QVAC

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 262K

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submodel

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 262K

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Ambient

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 1M

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The Grid AI

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 1M

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Berget.AI

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 524K

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Modelis

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 1M

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HPC-AI

Models available: 9 · Largest context window: 1.1M

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ai&

Models available: 8 · Largest context window: 1M

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Synthetic

Models available: 8 · Largest context window: 524K

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STACKIT

Models available: 8 · Largest context window: 262K

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LLMTR

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 128K

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DInference

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 1M

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Inceptron

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 1M

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AKI.IO

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 262K

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InferX

Models available: 6 · Largest context window: 1M

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Wafer

Models available: 5 · Largest context window: 1M

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Mixlayer

Models available: 5 · Largest context window: 262K

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CloudFerro Sherlock

Models available: 5 · Largest context window: 196K

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LucidQuery

Models available: 4 · Largest context window: 300K

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Lilac

Models available: 4 · Largest context window: 1M

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Sakana AI

Models available: 3 · Largest context window: 1M

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Blue Claw

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 197K

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Claudinio

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 256K

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Thinking Machines

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 262K

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abliteration.ai

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 1M

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Inception

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 128K

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Moark

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 205K

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Nova

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 1M

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Subconscious

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 1M

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Sarvam AI

Models available: 2 · Largest context window: 131K

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Zeldoc

Models available: 1 · Largest context window: 1M

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Zenifra

Models available: 1 · Largest context window: 262K

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How to choose an LLM provider in 2026

The catalog groups into families with different strengths:

  • Frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI) — strongest reasoning and coding for high-stakes agent work

  • Aggregators & gateways (OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway) — one key, hundreds of models, easy failover

  • China model providers (Zhipu GLM, Moonshot Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen) — exceptional coding value and CN-region access

  • Inference clouds (Groq, Cerebras, Fireworks, Together) — open-weights models at very high speed

  • Local & private (LM Studio, Ollama) — data never leaves your machine

Managed gateway or bring your own key

The WorkDaddy managed gateway serves a curated set of top coding models with zero key management — upstream keys never touch your device. Prefer control? Connect any of the 178 providers with your own credentials, or point WorkDaddy at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint as a custom provider, including self-hosted models.

Frequently asked questions

Which LLM providers does WorkDaddy support in 2026?

178 providers covering 5,970+ models — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, Alibaba, Tencent, and local runtimes like LM Studio.

What is the best LLM for e-commerce AI agents in 2026?

For deep agentic work, frontier coding models lead; for bulk content and analysis, China’s coding models (GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek) offer outstanding value; for speed, inference clouds running open-weights models win. WorkDaddy lets you mix per task instead of betting on one.

Do I need my own API key to use these models?

No — the managed gateway includes curated models with no key management. You can also bring your own key for any supported provider, or on paid plans let WorkDaddy include usage.

Can I run WorkDaddy on a local or self-hosted model?

Yes — LM Studio and private runtimes are first-class providers, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint can be added as a custom provider with its own base URL and key.

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