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Hello! My name is Kounaisha and in this guide I will teach you how to use proxies in JanitorAI using the Chutes.AI provider.

I am writing this guide mainly because of the drastic changes in OpenRouter with the free models. For you, a frequent OpenRouter user, you must already be aware that, before, there was a limit of 200 message requests per day for free models. Now, with the changes, these free messages have been reduced to 50. This frustrated a lot of OpenRouter users. However, a new competitor provider to OpenRouter was recently launched, ChutesAI.

Instructions

Creating an ChutesAI Account

1 - Okay, first we have to create an account on ChutesAI, so go to the website and click on "Create account" like in the image below.

2 - Enter the username you want and click on "create account". The website will then ask you to save your "fingerprint", which is basically a security code that you will use from now on to log in. Clicking on the code will copy it, save it somewhere and keep it safe.

Creating an API key

3 - Once your account is created, you will be redirected to the website models list. But first, we need to create our API key. Click on the "API" button located on the top left.

4 - You will see a list of API keys. Let's create our new key by clicking on the "Create API Key" button.

5 - Choose the name you want for the key and click "Create". Soon after, a window will appear showing your key. Take it and save it.

Setting up Janitor's API Settings

6 - Let's go to JanitorAI to set up the proxy. On the JanitorAI website, open any chat with any bot, open the menu on the top right and go to "API settings".

7 - Paste the API key you got from chutesAI into the "API key" field.

9 - In the "Proxy URL" field, enter the following url: https://llm.chutes.ai/v1/chat/completions

10 - And finally, in the "model" field, we will use one of the free models offered by ChutesAI. It is a bit tedious to get the models' names, so I will list here all the free models I recommend and you can choose one. just copy the model name (Eg.: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324) and paste it in the API settings' "model" field. All of them are FREE.

11 - Done! You are now using ChutesAI's proxies!


Models list

DeepSeek

Most recommended

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Zero

Mistral

chutesai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503

cognitivecomputations/Dolphin3.0-R1-Mistral-24B

chutesai/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8

Qwen

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct

Nvidia

nvidia/Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1

nvidia/Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1

nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1

Gemma

unsloth/gemma-3-12b-it


FAQ

What are ChutesAI's limits?

Since the provider is new, no one yet knows for sure what ChutesAI's message request limit is (IF there is a limit). I've seen reports on reddit of people who sent over 300 messages and didn't reach the limit.

I did everything right and it's giving network error

If you are absolutely sure that you did everything right, then it's probably a connection problem with ChutesAI. Just wait a few minutes and try again.

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Pub: 11 Apr 2025 02:19 UTC
Edit: 04 Jun 2025 17:25 UTC
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