# Support Models

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## Boba Provided (recommended)

Boba provides models out of the box with no external API key required you can top up credits with SOL or USDC on all chains we support manually or your agent can do it for you. This is the easiest way to get started.

Cost per 1M tokens | $2 budget estimate

| Model                             | Input/1M | Output/1M | $2 Gets You (est.) |
| --------------------------------- | -------- | --------- | ------------------ |
| **GPT-5.2** · OpenAI              | $3.50    | $28.00    | 35 responses       |
| **Claude Opus 4.6** · Anthropic   | $10.00   | $50.00    | 20 responses       |
| **GPT-5.1** · OpenAI              | $2.50    | $20.00    | 50 responses       |
| **Claude Sonnet 4.6** · Anthropic | $6.00    | $30.00    | 30 responses       |
| **Claude Haiku 4.5** · Anthropic  | $2.00    | $10.00    | 95 responses       |
| **Kimi K2.5** · Moonshot AI       | $0.90    | $4.40     | 225 responses      |
| **MiniMax M2.5** · MiniMax        | $0.60    | $2.40     | 400 responses      |
| **Qwen 3.5 Plus** · Qwen          | $0.52    | $3.12     | 320 responses      |
| **GPT-4o Mini** · OpenAI          | $0.30    | $1.20     | 780 responses      |
| **Llama 4 Maverick** · Meta       | $0.30    | $1.20     | 780 responses      |
| **Llama 4 Scout** · Meta          | $0.16    | $0.60     | 1,560 responses    |

{% hint style="info" %}
Short response estimate is approximately 500 input + 2,000 output tokens.
{% endhint %}

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## External Providers

Boba supports external inference providers. Credits, billing, and top-ups are managed directly through each provider's own dashboard.

Cost varies per provider.

Here's the table formatted for GitBook:

| Provider         | API Key Required               |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Boba             | ✅ Built-in — no API key needed |
| Anthropic        | Yes                            |
| OpenAI           | Yes                            |
| Google Gemini    | Yes                            |
| Google Vertex AI | Yes                            |
| Azure OpenAI     | Yes                            |
| AWS Bedrock      | Yes                            |
| Groq             | Yes                            |
| OpenRouter       | Yes                            |
| X.AI (Grok)      | Yes                            |
| GitHub Copilot   | Yes                            |
| Cerebras         | Yes                            |
| Hugging Face     | Yes                            |
| Venice           | Yes                            |
| Chutes           | Yes                            |
| MiniMax          | Yes                            |
| IoNet            | Yes                            |
| AI Hub Mix       | Yes                            |
| Kimi Coding      | Yes                            |
| Vercel           | Yes                            |
| Z-AI             | Yes                            |
| Synthetic        | Yes                            |

### Configuring external provider 

Use the `/provider`  command in the menu to open the provider menu 

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You can select any provider you want to configure

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Enter the API key you obtained from the providers dashboard

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After verification models will appear with checkmark inside of the `/model` menu&#x20;

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