AI Providers and Routing
Where the intelligence that writes your texts comes from: ours, or yours. And, if it is yours, which model does what.
If you use Booost AI, there is nothing to do here
Booost AI works the moment you install the app: no key, no model to pick, no route to set. Everything below concerns only people bringing their own keys.
Connecting a provider of your own
- Press "+ Add provider" and pick from 19 cloud providers or Ollama running locally.
- Paste the key and save. It is encrypted with the operating system's
safeStorageand never leaves the computer. - Press Test: it makes a real ping, so you know straight away whether key and model work.
- Press Load models: Booost asks the provider for the list, then checks with a 1-token probe which ones your key can actually use — the badge says
ok,no accessorerror. - Tick the models to enable. Only these will appear in the routing dropdowns.
- Go to Routing and assign each feature (Default, Inbox replies, Comments, Messages, Posts, Purposes) a provider and a model.
The Default is the safety net
Every feature of the app asks for its own route. If that feature has none, it uses the Default. If that is missing too, generation stops with an error that says so.
Each provider stays independent: its own key, its own enabled models. So you can send bulk work to a fast, cheap model and keep the good one for the texts that matter.
The two tiers behave differently on limits
Booost AI answers from behind a proxy that closes every connection at 100 seconds. So the app stops a managed call itself at 70 seconds and tells you why: stopping on your own terms with a reason is better than a silent error that kills the whole run.
When it happens it is usually a passing slowdown of the model and retrying is enough. If it keeps happening, send less material at once — on the clustering node that is "Max clustering input chars".
With your own key there is no ceiling from us: only your provider's limits apply. Rate limits, tokens per minute, request size, monthly spend — the app shows you the provider's error when one of these trips (a 429 is retried three times with growing backoff, a 413 once with a smaller budget), but it does not slow you down and does not stop you of its own accord.