Please ensure you’re on the latest version of Kombai to access these models and routers.
- Model Routers: Kombai’s internal routers that automatically pick the ideal model for your task within a chosen cost tier.
- Models: Direct access to individual frontier models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Moonshot, and Qwen.
The credit multiplier is relative to the baseline (
1x). For example, a task that consumes 10 credits on a 1x model would consume approximately 5 credits on a 0.5x model and 25 credits on a 2.5x model.Model Routers
Model Routers are powered by a continuously optimized and benchmarked model stack. Kombai benchmarks the latest LLMs from top providers across a wide range of frontend tasks—from interpreting complex UI logic to multi-file refactors—and the internal router automatically selects the best model for the task within the cost tier you choose. This gives you granular control over cost while ensuring you consistently get the best performance per dollar, even as newer and better models emerge, without any effort to manually test and benchmark them.Kombai-Auto is the recommended default. It analyzes each task and routes it to the optimal model automatically, balancing quality and cost for you.
Models
If you prefer to run a specific model, choose one directly. Models are grouped by provider, and each shows its credit multiplier.OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
xAI
Moonshot
Qwen
Thinking effort
Thinking effort controls how deeply a model reasons before it responds. Higher effort improves planning, edge-case handling, and self-correction for complex tasks, while lower effort returns faster, cheaper responses for simpler ones.
Not every model supports every level. When you open the thinking effort selector for a model, only the levels it supports are shown. Some models (such as Grok Build 0.1, Kimi K2.5, Kimi K2.6, and Qwen 3.6 27B) don’t expose a configurable thinking effort.
Supported thinking effort by model
Higher thinking effort increases generation time and cost, but it does not consume your context window, allowing the agent to think deeply without losing track of large codebases.
Select a model
You can switch models and routers directly from the chat input box:- Click the model dropdown in the Kombai chat input box.
- Search for a model, or pick one from the Model Router or Models group (grouped by provider).
- To adjust reasoning depth, click the current thinking effort shown beside the brain () icon on the model’s row, then choose a level from the list.
Manage available models
You can control which routers and models appear in the chat dropdown from the Models tab of the Settings page.- Click the icon in Kombai’s top menubar to open the Settings page.
- Select the Models tab from the left sidebar.
- Use the toggle beside each entry under Model Routers and Models to show or hide it in the model dropdown.
Hiding a model only removes it from the dropdown, it does not affect any chat that is already using it.