Providers and keys

Toad Agent, the built-in agent, runs on a model from a provider you connect under Settings → Providers. Keys live in Toad’s vault on this machine and are never written into a conversation, a teammate’s files or a log.

Providers

Provider	Connects with
Anthropic	API key
OpenAI	API key
ChatGPT	Sign in with your ChatGPT subscription
OpenRouter	Sign in, or API key
Google	API key
xAI	Sign in (Grok device sign-in), or API key
Z.AI, and Z.AI Coding Plan	API key
Groq	API key
DeepSeek	API key
Mistral	API key
GitHub Copilot	Sign in
Ollama Local	A server URL, no key
Ollama Cloud	API key
OpenAI-compatible	Any endpoint that speaks the OpenAI API: URL, optional key, your own model IDs

Add provider lists what is not connected yet. Once every provider is connected the list says so.

Models

Each connection has a Connection and a Models shown section. Toad ships a catalogue of the models each provider serves and refreshes the list from the provider itself when it can, so a newly released model is usable before Toad ships an update. Untick models you do not want in the picker; every model checked is the same as no filter. Manual model IDs adds an ID the provider has not listed.

For Ollama Local, Toad discovers whatever the server has installed. For an OpenAI-compatible endpoint you supply the model IDs, and Toad will list them from the server when it can.

The default model

Settings → General → Default model is what a new Toad Agent teammate starts on. Last used picks up whatever you chose most recently. Each teammate’s model can be changed any time from the picker in its title bar.

Teammates that bring their own login

Teammates that run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, Gemini CLI or Grok Build sign in through that tool, not through Toad. Toad holds no key for them. See Teammates and drivers.