Default Models

Overview

Settings → Default Models configures which models the app reaches for automatically. You can pick any active model from any of your connected providers.

The Two Defaults

• Default Chat Model — the model every new chat node starts with. Out of the box this is Auto, which routes each message to the best-suited model (see Models & Providers). You can still switch models per conversation.
• Title Generation Model — used to automatically name your nodes and canvases from their content. The setting's own advice: "Pick a lightweight low cost model" — it runs often and doesn't need to be smart.

Image generation models aren't set here — pick them per node in an Image-mode chat's model catalog. See Image Node.

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Per-Canvas Overrides

These settings are global. Each canvas can override the default chat model in its canvas settings — while a canvas is inheriting the global value, it shows a Global default badge there. Set a canvas-specific model and that canvas stops following the global setting.

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Use cases

• Cheap housekeeping, smart chat: keep Auto (or a frontier model) on Default Chat Model but a small, cheap model on Title Generation Model so auto-naming never eats your budget.
• A canvas per model: keep the global default on Auto, and override one research canvas to a long-context model via its canvas settings.
• Offline-first setup: set an Ollama model as the default chat model so new conversations work even without internet.