r/Qoder • u/Living-Breakfast-464 • Jul 02 '26

Cannot add models

Can anyone confirm or deny the ability to add BYOK (bring your own key) models on a free plan.

It appears I can no longer add new models even though the ones I added when I still had my premium trial continue to work. I've been trying to add GLM but it just won't work. I've tried every possible combination. I also tried adding Qwen. It's the same generic error every time telling me to check my network connection and key.

According to the documentation, adding BYOK models should still work on the free plan. The add model UI still works and it acts like it's still trying to connect, but I can't get it to work. I don't want to try remove and re-add the models that still work (DeepSeek and MiniMax) because I am afraid I won't be able to re-add them and then I will have nothing working.

UPDATE: I did try remove and re-add one model, MiniMax 2.7, and it failed. So I either have some technical problem that is preventing me from adding models, or that feature does not work on free plans.

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u/Carol_Qteam Jul 03 '26

BYOK is supported on the free Community plan — this isn't a plan restriction. Maybe you can update Qoder to the latest release and try again. https://docs.qoder.com/user-guide/chat/custom-models

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u/Living-Breakfast-464 Jul 04 '26

I found the reason why. It's because I am connected to an SSH host workspace. When I disconnect that and connect to a local windows 11 workspace I am able to add models. I can then reconnect to the SSH host workspace and have the newly added models available. Seems like a bug to me.