Use Crush, Droid, Qwen, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose and more with llmapi.cheap

Run Crush, Droid, Qwen, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose and more on Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-OSS with a single llmapi.cheap key. Plans start at $2 a month, and there is a free one-hour trial.

Protocol: Mixed

Fastest: one command

The setup command finds Crush, Droid, Qwen, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose and more on your machine, writes its configuration with your key and sets Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) as the default model. It needs no Node.js. Sign up first: your key is created automatically, and the dashboard shows this command with the key already filled in.

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://llmapi.cheap/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://llmapi.cheap/install.ps1 | iex

Manual setup

Crush (~/.config/crush/crushrc):

provider add llmapi --type openai-compat --base-url "https://llmapi.cheap/v1" --api-key "YOUR_API_KEY"
model add llmapi/gemini-3.8-flash-high --name "Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)" --context-window 1048576
model large llmapi/gemini-3.8-flash-high

Factory Droid (~/.factory/settings.json):

{ "customModels": [{ "model": "gemini-3.8-flash-high", "displayName": "llmapi Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)", "baseUrl": "https://llmapi.cheap", "apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY", "provider": "anthropic", "maxOutputTokens": 32000 }] }

Qwen Code (environment):

export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://llmapi.cheap/v1 OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY OPENAI_MODEL=gemini-3.8-flash-high

Gemini CLI (~/.gemini/.env):

GEMINI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
GOOGLE_GEMINI_BASE_URL=https://llmapi.cheap
GEMINI_MODEL=gemini-3.8-flash-high

Aider:

aider --openai-api-base https://llmapi.cheap/v1 --openai-api-key YOUR_API_KEY --model openai/gemini-3.8-flash-high

OpenHands, Warp, Kimi Code, aichat, llm, sgpt, Tabby and SWE-agent: use the OpenAI-compatible option, or set the standard variables:

export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://llmapi.cheap/v1 OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY

Goose: add a custom provider with engine "openai" and base URL {base}/v1/chat/completions, then set LLMAPI_API_KEY in your environment. The setup command writes this file for you.

goose configure

Endpoints

Use the base URL that matches the protocol your tool speaks.

OpenAI

https://llmapi.cheap/v1

Anthropic

https://llmapi.cheap

Gemini

https://llmapi.cheap/v1beta

Models

https://llmapi.cheap/v1/models

Model IDs

Any of these work wherever Crush, Droid, Qwen, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose and more asks for a model name. Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) is the default the setup command picks.

Troubleshooting

• 401 / invalid key: check the key starts with sk-llm- and has no extra spaces. Create a new one under Dashboard → API keys if needed.
• Model not allowed: the free trial covers the Gemini models; Claude and GPT-OSS come with any paid plan.
• 404 on requests: OpenAI-style tools need https://llmapi.cheap/v1; Anthropic-style tools need https://llmapi.cheap without /v1.