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Providers

The model providers and search engines TALOS for Android can use.

Reference for TALOS for Android 0.1.40 generated from the source of the release · released

Set providers in Settings → Models. Keys are kept in Android’s Keystore, on this phone, and sent only to their own provider.

OpenAI

openai

OpenAI’s models, with your API key.

Key
required
Set in
Settings → Models

DeepSeek

deepseek

DeepSeek’s models, with your API key.

Key
required
Set in
Settings → Models

Anthropic

anthropic

Anthropic’s Claude models, with your API key.

Key
required
Set in
Settings → Models

Google Gemini

gemini

Google’s Gemini models, with your API key.

Key
required
Set in
Settings → Models

OpenRouter

openrouter

Hundreds of models from many vendors through one OpenRouter key.

Key
required
Set in
Settings → Models

Ollama Local

ollama

An Ollama server you run, reached at its address: no key.

Key
none
Set in
Settings → Models

On-device engine

local

A model downloaded onto this phone, run by its own engine: no key, no network, works in airplane mode.

Key
none
Models
the ones you download to the phone

Set in Settings → Search engine. Web search and page reading are offered to the model only once one is set (Tools).

Tavily tavily
A search API built for AI agents. Needs an API key. Needsa key
Brave Search brave
Brave’s independent web index. Needs an API key. Needsa key
SearXNG (self-hosted) searxng
A SearXNG instance you run: its address, no key. Needsan address
Custom endpoint custom
Any address that answers a search with a JSON list of results (SearXNG’s shape), and a key if it needs one. Needsan address
DuckDuckGo (no key) duckduckgo
DuckDuckGo’s results page, with no key and no account. Needsnothing

Type to search the guides.