Cherry Studio

Desktop chat. Provider is OpenAI-compatible.

Three fields. Copy, don’t type

Do it in order. Don’t skip

1. Open Cherry Studio → Settings (gear at bottom left) → Model Providers.

2. Press Add at the bottom of the list to create your own provider.

3. Type: OpenAI. Name it anything, for example cheapai.

4. API Host / Base URL: https://cheapai.lol/v1 — with the /v1 tail.

5. API Key: your key in full.

6. Under Models press Add and enter claude-opus-4.8.

7. Save, open a new chat, pick the model and type “hi”.

Check

If it didn’t start

• “401 / unauthorized / invalid api key” — the key was not copied whole. It starts with sk- and has no space at either end.
• “model not found” / “named models unavailable” / model in red — the name must match exactly: claude-opus-4.8. Not “Opus 5”, not opus, not claude-3, not gpt-4.
• The app shows no models — reopen its settings page: the model list is served from our address and appears once the Base URL and key are right.
• “Connection error” / spinner and silence — wrong Base URL. Almost every app wants the address with a /v1 tail.
• “/v1/v1” in the error — the app appends /v1 itself. Drop the tail, leave the site address.
• It replied, then stopped — you ran out of tokens. The balance is in your dashboard. Topping up on FunPay from the same nick lands on the same key.

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