---
title: "Using supermemory local with different providers"
sidebarTitle: "Providers"
description: "Copy-paste .env setup for Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and OpenRouter"
icon: "route"
---

Supermemory local needs one model provider to power summaries, contextual chunking, and memory extraction. Pick the tab for whichever one you already have a key for. For the full variable reference (fast/text model overrides, offline setup, tuning), see [Configuration](/self-hosting/configuration).

<Tabs>
<Tab title="Ollama">
Fully offline — no API key leaves your machine. Any OpenAI-compatible local runner works the same way (LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp server); this is the Ollama version.

```bash
ollama pull gpt-oss:20b
```

```bash .env
OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=ollama        # any non-empty string — Ollama doesn't check it
OPENAI_MODEL=gpt-oss:20b
```

`gpt-oss:20b` is a good default for a laptop-class GPU. Bigger models work if you have the VRAM — set `OPENAI_MODEL` to whatever you've pulled.
</Tab>

<Tab title="OpenAI">
```bash .env
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
```

That's it — defaults to `gpt-5.1`. Override with `OPENAI_MODEL` if you want a different one.
</Tab>

<Tab title="Anthropic">
```bash .env
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
```

Runs on `claude-haiku-4-5` — this one isn't currently configurable via env var.
</Tab>

<Tab title="Gemini">
```bash .env
GEMINI_API_KEY=...
```

Runs on `gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview` — also not currently overridable. This is the only key that also unlocks image, video, and high-fidelity PDF understanding (see the [full provider table](/self-hosting/configuration#llm-providers)).
</Tab>

<Tab title="OpenRouter">
OpenRouter isn't a native provider — it's OpenAI-compatible, so it slots into the same `OPENAI_BASE_URL` path as Ollama:

```bash .env
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-or-...
OPENAI_MODEL=openai/gpt-4o-mini
```

Set `OPENAI_MODEL` to any model slug from [OpenRouter's model list](https://openrouter.ai/models) — routing, fallback, and pricing all follow OpenRouter's own rules from there.
</Tab>
</Tabs>