Cloud Providers

Overview

Settings → Cloud Providers is where you connect AI providers that run in the cloud. The page shows an accordion with one row per provider:

• Rabbitholes — Slashspace's built-in managed provider (no API key needed)
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, xAI, OpenRouter, Straico, Qolaba, DeepSeek, Groq, and Fal AI (BETA) — bring your own API key

The key icon on each row turns green once an API key is saved for that provider, so you can see at a glance which providers are connected.

Local models (Ollama), OpenAI-compatible endpoints (Custom Providers), and coding-agent CLIs (Subscription Providers) each have their own settings page.

Every provider here is available during the 3-day trial and with a Slashspace license. Once a trial ends without a purchase, the other providers appear blurred behind a lock with a button that opens slashspace.ai/pricing; only Rabbitholes stays available.

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Rabbitholes (built-in)

Rabbitholes needs no setup at all. As its card explains: "Rabbitholes uses your signed-in desktop session and routes chat through the managed backend endpoint."

• There's no API key to paste — usage is billed against your credit balance.
• The Manage hosted wallet link on the card opens your plan page on the web, where you can check or add hosted wallet funds.

Custom models are not available for the Rabbitholes provider — you can only add your own models to BYOK providers.

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Adding an API Key

1. Go to Settings → Cloud Providers and expand the provider you want to connect.

2. Click Get your API key here — it opens that provider's dashboard in your browser, where you can create a key.

3. Paste the key into the Enter your API key field. It's a password field; use the eye button to show or hide the key.

4. A footer appears with a Skip API key validation checkbox, a red X (cancel your changes), and a check button (save).

5. Click the check button to save. Slashspace validates the key with the provider before saving, unless you ticked Skip API key validation.

When you save a key for the first time, a default set of models for that provider is added automatically, and if you haven't set a default chat model yet, one is picked for you (you can change it in Default Models).

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Managing Models

Each provider row has a Models list:

• Toggle — the switch on each model row activates or deactivates the model. Only active models show up in model pickers across the app.
• Delete — the trash button removes a model after a confirmation: "This will remove the model from the active list."
• Add New Model — opens a dialog to register any model the provider supports. For providers whose model inventory can be fetched, a combobox lets you pick from the live list; otherwise fill in:
  • Model ID (required) — the provider's exact model identifier, e.g. gpt-4o
  • Display Name / Alias (optional) — the name shown in the UI
  • Description (optional)
  • Modalities — checkboxes such as Text to Text, Text to Image, Image to Text; the model type is derived from what you select
• Refresh Models — shown instead of the add button for providers that fetch their model list (like subscription providers).

Chat models are validated against the provider before they're added, so a typo in the model ID fails fast.

Per-model settings

Click a model card to open its Model Settings dialog. You can set an alias, a model-specific system prompt, and advanced sampling parameters: Temperature, Top K, Top P, Presence Penalty, Frequency Penalty, Max Tokens, and Max Steps.

Provider-level advanced settings

Each provider also has a Manage Advanced Settings button. This dialog sets defaults for the whole provider — System Prompt plus the same sampling parameters and Max Steps / Max Tokens. Every field has a Clear control, and the dialog has Reset Defaults and Save buttons.

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Use cases

• Start with zero setup: chat with Rabbitholes models right after signing in — no keys, no configuration — and add optional wallet funds from the Manage hosted wallet link when you run low.
• Bring your own keys to control cost: add your OpenAI and Anthropic keys so heavy usage bills your own accounts at provider rates instead of consuming credits.
• Pin a new model the day it ships: when a provider releases a model that isn't in the default list yet, use Add New Model with its model ID and start using it immediately.
• Tune a provider for one workflow: set a provider-level system prompt and a low temperature via Manage Advanced Settings so every model from that provider answers in a consistent, deterministic style.