No local hardware? Use a cloud LLM.

LLM (AI Brain)

Cloud option: open Settings ā†’ AI Services ā†’ Cloud Setup, pick your provider from the Provider list, paste that provider's API key, tick Locked, and press Save.

You choose the provider yourself. Elite Intel does not guess it from the key, because providers change their key formats too often for that to be reliable. You don't choose a model: Elite Intel selects it for your provider:

Provider Model used
Mistral (free tier) mistral-small-2506
xAI grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
OpenAI gpt-5.4-mini
Gemini (Generative Language API) gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
Anthropic / Claude claude-haiku-4-5
DeepSeek deepseek-v4-flash

Cost will be different depending on which Cloud service you choose, and how long you play.

FREE CLOUD Option: Mistral

  1. Go to Mistral Console
  2. Create account with a valid email you can verify.
  3. NO CREDIT CARD NECESSARY
  4. Create a "Organisation" (Call it whatever you want. For example "Elite Intel")
  5. Generate an API key.
  6. In Settings ā†’ AI Services ā†’ Cloud Setup, pick Mistral as the provider, paste the key, press Save, and restart services on the Vega tab.

Option A: xAI API Key

  1. Go to the xAI Console.
  2. Sign up or log in.
  3. Navigate to the API section and generate a new API key.
  4. Add credits to your account.
  5. In Settings ā†’ AI Services ā†’ Cloud Setup, pick xAI (Grok) as the provider, paste the key into API Key, tick Locked, and press Save.

Option B: OpenAI API Key

  1. Go to the OpenAI Platform.
  2. Sign up or log in.
  3. Navigate to the API section and generate a new API key.
  4. In Settings ā†’ AI Services ā†’ Cloud Setup, pick OpenAI as the provider, paste the key into API Key, tick Locked, and press Save.

Option C: Anthropic/Claude API Key

  1. Go to the Claude Platform.
  2. Sign in with email or Google. Note: authentication uses a magic link sent to your email.
  3. Go to Settings ā†’ Billing and add credits before creating a key. A key created on an unfunded account does not function even if credits are added afterward.
  4. Go to API Keys and create a key.
  5. In Settings ā†’ AI Services ā†’ Cloud Setup, pick Anthropic (Claude) as the provider, paste the key into API Key, tick Locked, press Save, then start or restart services on the Vega tab.

Getting a Google TTS Key

  1. Go to the Google Cloud Console.
  2. Sign in or create an account.
  3. Create a new project.
  4. Enable the Generative Language API for LLM and/or Cloud Text-to-Speech API for TTS.
  5. Go to Credentials, create an API key, and copy it.
  6. Restrict the key: Click the key you just created. On the key detail page, click Restrict key. A dropdown appears. Check each API you enabled (STT and/or TTS), then click Save.
  7. Paste the key into Settings ā†’ AI Services ā†’ Speech (TTS) ā†’ Google TTS Key, tick Locked, and press Save.