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${kr('GROK_API_KEY','Groq','gsk_...','https://console.groq.com/keys','free','Free · ~800 t/s · Llama 3.3 70B')}
${kr('CEREBRAS_API_KEY','Cerebras','csk_...','https://cloud.cerebras.ai','free','Free · ~2000 t/s · fastest available')}
${kr('DEEPSEEK_API_KEY','DeepSeek','sk-...','https://platform.deepseek.com/api_keys','paid','V4 Flash = £0.14/1M tokens · V4 Pro = frontier')}
${kr('GEMINI_FREE_API_KEY','Gemini Free','AIza...','https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey','free','Free · Gemini 2.5 Pro · vision capable')}
${kr('GEMINI_PAID_API_KEY','Gemini Paid','AIza...','https://console.cloud.google.com','paid','Paid quota · higher rate limits')}
${kr('NVIDIA_API_KEY_1','NVIDIA NIM','nvapi-...','https://build.nvidia.com','free','Free · Nemotron 3 Ultra · best reasoning')}
${kr('NVIDIA_API_KEY_2','NVIDIA NIM (backup)','nvapi-...','https://build.nvidia.com','free','Second key for rate limit fallback')}
${kr('TOGETHER_API_KEY','Together AI','...','https://api.together.xyz/settings/api-keys','free','Free tier · Llama models')}
${kr('SAMBANOVA_API_KEY','SambaNova','...','https://cloud.sambanova.ai/apis','free','Free · fast inference')}
${kr('OPENROUTER_API_KEY','OpenRouter','sk-or-...','https://openrouter.ai/keys','paid','Access to 200+ models via one key')}
${kr('MISTRAL_API_KEY','Mistral','...','https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys','paid','Mistral Large · good for European data')}
${kr('KIMI_API_KEY','Kimi (Moonshot)','...','https://platform.moonshot.cn','free','Free · 200K context window')}
${kr('CHUTES_API_KEY','Chutes','...','https://chutes.ai','free','Free inference')}
${kr('FIREWORKS_API_KEY','Fireworks','fw_...','https://fireworks.ai/account/api-keys','free','Free tier · fast')}
${kr('NEBIOUS_API_KEY','Nebius','...','https://studio.nebius.ai','free','Free')}
${kr('COHERE_API_KEY','Cohere','...','https://dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys','free','Free tier · embeddings')}
${kr('HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY','HuggingFace','hf_...','https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens','free','Free · open models')}
${kr('ANY_API_KEY','AnyAPI','...','https://anyapi.io/dashboard','free','Free')}
${kr('MUSE_API_KEY','Muse','...','','free','If applicable')}
${kr('OPENROUTER_API_KEY','OpenRouter','sk-or-...','https://openrouter.ai/keys','paid','200+ models')}
${kr('MODELSLAB_API_KEY','ModelsLab','...','https://modelslab.com/dashboard','paid','Image/video generation')}