Choose OpenAI, Gemini or Claude
Understand price-plan access, personal defaults and per-operation model selection in Talk, Build and Benchmark.
How Aetherion chooses a model
| Priority | Source | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manual dropdown | The current price plan allows manual selection and includes the exact model. |
| 2 | User Settings default | The plan allows personal defaults. |
| 3 | Price-plan default | Configured by Admin separately for Talk, Build and Benchmark. |
| 4 | Platform default | Used only when it is also allowed by the price plan. |
A dropdown never bypasses the plan
The server validates provider and model on every paid request. A stale or manipulated selection is rejected instead of silently routing to a different or more expensive model.
Set defaults or choose for one operation
Set personal defaults
Open Account Center → Settings → Default LLM and choose separate models for Talk, Build and Benchmark when your plan permits it.
Choose in the composer
Use the model dropdown beside Build / Talk to override the default for the next operation.
Confirm in Build Setup
The prebuild form repeats the primary Build model beside layout, typography and visual direction.
Choose in Benchmark
Select an allowed web-grounded model before reviewing the estimate and exact question fingerprint.
What the Build model controls
The selected LLM is the primary reasoning model for Talk or the Builder plan, including length recovery and JSON repair. Aetherion's provider-neutral Build Engine still performs repository evidence collection, action validation, virtual file simulation, security checks, versioning and controlled file writes. Changing the model never grants direct access to files or bypasses those guards.
Model tokens and provider web searches are recorded under the actual provider and model in Money Flow. Different models can therefore produce different estimates and credit settlement even for the same prompt.
Need project-specific help?
Open the private Help Center or create a support ticket with the affected project, route and request ID.