- 01
Pick a source
The Metaphor gateway, your own OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway or Cloudflare Workers AI key, or Ollama on your computer.
- 02
Route by role
Explore, plan, build and review each get a model. Presets put cheap models on searching and stronger ones on planning and review.
- 03
Go beyond code
Image, voice and video models are on the gateway too, for mockups, voiceovers and clips.
The details
- Every account starts with $20 of model credit, good for 90 days.
- Bring your own key for OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway or Cloudflare Workers AI and pay the provider directly.
- Ollama models run on your machine; Metaphor only talks to a local address.
- Routing roles: explore, planner, builder, reviewer, plus compact and title for housekeeping.
Questions
Can I use my own API key?
Yes: OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway or Cloudflare Workers AI. Requests then bill to your provider account.
Can I run models locally?
Yes, with Ollama. Metaphor finds the models you've pulled and only connects to a local address.
Why not one model for everything?
Searching and summarising don't need the largest model. Routing them to a small one keeps the big model for planning, building and review.