AI providers and API keys

Your own key

ContentPilot AI writes with the AI provider you connect: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok or HuggingFace. You enter your own API key — so the cost and the choice of model stay with you.

1. Create an account with a provider and generate an API key.
2. In the app, open Settings → AI API access and enter the key for that provider.
3. Choose your preferred provider and model, then save.

AI included in your plan

Instead of your own key, you can choose a plan with AI included. Under Settings → Plan, turn on “With AI included” at the top: the cards then show the price with AI and roughly how much work it covers. You change your plan as usual with the button on the card.

Which AI is used is decided by your plan alone: with an AI plan, the app works with the included AI. Without one, it uses your own key as soon as one is stored. If you have neither, you can try the included AI once for free.

Before the included AI works, you confirm once under Settings → AI API access that your content may be sent to the named AI providers for this. That is also where you see how much of the included volume you have used in the current billing period.

When the volume is used up, the app continues with your own key if you have stored one. Otherwise it continues in the next billing period. Translations are never deleted just because the volume ran out.

Per-minute limits

Each provider can be limited in tokens and requests per minute. This matters for large runs such as translating a whole catalogue: do not set the values higher than your provider account allows, or the provider will reject requests.

Sending images to the AI

Whether the AI may look at your product images is one shop-wide setting (Settings → AI instructions → General). It is off by default. Switched on, an alt text describes the actual picture and product texts can pick up visible details. HuggingFace and DeepSeek do not support images.