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title: "Noket - AI, Yours to Share."
description: "Share and use AI models with the people you choose."
---

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# Noket - AI, Yours to Share.

Noket lets one person share an AI model with other people, without handing over the API key behind it.
The owner connects a model — one served by a local runtime through the Noket connector, or any public
OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible API — and decides who can use it, how much each person may spend, and
when access ends. Everyone else calls the model with their own Noket API key, using the OpenAI or
Anthropic SDK they already have.

Inference stays wherever the model already runs. Noket carries the request, enforces budgets, and
records who called what.

## Start where you are

- **Use a model someone shared with you** — Accept the invitation, create an API key, and make your first request.
- **Call the API from your app** — Point the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK at Noket and keep the code you already have.
- **Share your models** — Add a model, set a budget, and invite the people who should use it.
- **Share a model on your machine** — Install the connector, expose a local server through the tunnel, and add it as a model.

## The three surfaces

| Surface | Where | What it is for |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Console | [noket.dev](https://noket.dev) | Models, members, budgets, API keys, usage, logs, and tunnel nodes. |
| API | `https://api.noket.dev` | OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible inference endpoints. |
| Connector | `noket`, `noketd` on your machine | Keeps the tunnel open and serves the upstreams you expose. |

You only need the connector if you are sharing a model that runs on your own hardware. Using someone
else's model, or sharing a public API, needs nothing but the console and an API key.

## How the pieces fit

- A **model** is the callable unit. It has a public id such as `alice/llama-3`, a price, access rules,
  and limits. People call the model, never the thing behind it.
- An **upstream** is an API the connector can reach from your machine: a local runtime, a corporate
  gateway, or a hosted provider. An **upstream model id** is one model on that API.
- A **node** is a machine running the connector. Models bound to a node reach their upstream through the
  tunnel the connector opens, so nothing on your network accepts inbound connections.

Read [Models and access](https://docs.noket.dev/concepts/models/) for the vocabulary, or
[How the tunnel works](https://docs.noket.dev/concepts/how-the-tunnel-works/) for the connection itself.

## Next

- [Console](https://docs.noket.dev/console/) — every page of the web console.
- [API](https://docs.noket.dev/api/) — routes, authentication, and SDK examples.
- [Connector](https://docs.noket.dev/connector/) — installing, logging in, and managing upstreams.
- [Reference](https://docs.noket.dev/reference/cli/) — the CLI and configuration reference, generated from the code.

Source: https://docs.noket.dev/index.mdx