Choose the model behind your chatbot.Powered by your provider.
Connect your own model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Moonshot, OpenRouter, Groq, or Requesty. Your provider, your model, your invoice — Gydr handles the AI engine.
How bringing your own model helps
Bring your own model — Gydr still does the heavy lifting
All of Gydr's safety guardrails, knowledge search, and skills — driven by the model you already pay for.
Connect your own provider
Ten providers supported: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Moonshot, OpenRouter, Groq, and Requesty. One neutral interface.
Pay your provider directly
Chat credits are zero on Gydr while your own model is active. You're billed by your provider. Finding your knowledge, running the conversation, and understanding your content still consume Gydr credits.
Live import validation
Every imported model is validated against your key with a function-calling probe. Models that don't support tool calling can't be imported.
Per-chatbot failure behavior
Choose what happens if your provider has an outage: a graceful fallback message, or fall back to a Gydr model for that turn.
Standard Gydr models vs Bring Your Own Model
| Standard Gydr Models | Bring Your Own Model | |
|---|---|---|
| Inference billing | Per-turn Gydr credits | Your provider's billing |
| Available models | Curated Gydr set (Nova family + OSS) | Any model from your provider that supports tool calling |
| Provider choice | Gydr-managed | OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / DeepSeek / Qwen / Mistral / Moonshot / OpenRouter / Groq / Requesty |
| Tool calling | Required | Required (validated on import) |
| Helper models (planning, quality checks) | Gydr-managed | Gydr-managed |
| Failure handling | N/A | Graceful message or fall back to Gydr |
Supported providers
Proprietary models
OpenAI
Widely used models with reliable tool calling.
Anthropic
Claude family. Strong reasoning, transparent refusals.
Google Gemini
Long-context flagship models.
DeepSeek
Cost-efficient models; strong at coding and math.
Qwen (Alibaba DashScope)
Alibaba's flagship; multilingual.
Mistral
Open-weight European provider; strong tool calling.
Moonshot (Kimi)
Long-context, agent-focused.
Aggregators
OpenRouter
Aggregator routing to most major models behind one key.
Groq
Hardware-accelerated inference for popular open models.
Requesty
Unified gateway with routing, caching, and one bill across 300+ models.
Three steps
Add a connection
In Console → Settings → Import Models, paste your provider API key. It is encrypted for your account and not shown again.
Import a model
Type the provider's model id. We run a live validation probe — only models with working tool calling are accepted.
Pick it on a chatbot
On any chatbot, choose your imported model under LLM Model and pick a failure behavior. Done.
Run your chatbot on your own model.
Bring your own provider account, your own model, your own invoice. Gydr's AI engine — safety guardrails, knowledge search, skills, monitoring — all runs around it.