# AI Sessions now run on OpenAI, Google Gemini, and OpenRouter **URL:** \ **Category:** Release Notes\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [August 20, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.limacharlie.com/t/ai-sessions-now-run-on-openai-google-gemini-and-openrouter/767 "2026-08-20T21:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maximelb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/community.limacharlie.com/maximelb/32/13_2.png) [@maximelb](https://community.limacharlie.com/u/maximelb)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.limacharlie.com/t/ai-sessions-now-run-on-openai-google-gemini-and-openrouter/767/1 "2026-08-20T21:04:58Z")
AI Sessions are no longer Claude-only. You can now connect your own keys for: - OpenAI: plain API key or Azure OpenAI (endpoint + deployment) - Google Gemini: AI Studio API key or Vertex - OpenRouter: one key gives you their whole model catalog (openai/gpt-5-mini, anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6, and so on) Claude keeps working exactly as before, and you can hold credentials for several providers at once. How to use it 1. Go to User Settings \> AI Terminal and hit Connect on the provider you want. Keys are stored encrypted, per user. 2. Set the provider (and optionally a model) on a session Profile. 3. Start a session with that profile. That’s it. What works on every provider: the full terminal experience, shell and file tools with the same permission and approval rules, MCP servers, budgets (max\_budget\_usd actually stops the session), hibernation and resume, session forking, and per-provider usage and cost tracking. OpenRouter sessions are metered from OpenRouter’s own billed cost, so any catalog model prices correctly. Defaults if you don’t pick a model: gpt-5.2 for OpenAI, gemini-3.7-flash for Google, openai/gpt-5-mini for OpenRouter. If you connected a provider before this went live you may need a refresh for the new Settings rows to appear. Feedback welcome, especially on models you’d like us to tune for.