What is PortModels

PortModels is a marketplace for focused AI apps. Every app in the gallery is built by a developer, reviewed before it goes live, and paid for out of the same credit balance — so using a new app never means creating another account or starting another subscription.

The problem it solves#

A lot of genuinely useful AI apps are worth using a few times a month, not every day. That creates a mismatch on both sides:

• For the people who would use them, each app asks for another sign-up, another card on file, and another recurring charge. The administration costs more than the tool is worth.
• For the people who build them, a narrow app still needs hosting, authentication, payments, metering, moderation, support, and marketing before it can be sold at all. That work rarely pays for itself on a small idea.

PortModels supplies the shared layer around those apps so both sides only deal with the part they care about.

What you get as a user#

• One account for every app in the gallery.
• One credit balance, spent per run, with no subscription.
• A consistent view of what an app does, what it needs from you, and what it costs before you run it.
• Central control over which apps are connected to your account and what data they can reach.

Start at Your first app.

What you get as a developer#

• Models — one OpenAI-compatible API across multiple providers and models.
• Identity — users authorize your app with the PortModels account they already have, through Connect.
• Billing — runs are metered and charged to the user's credits; your markup becomes your earnings.
• Storage — a per-user key/value store and file folder, scoped to your app.
• Distribution — a gallery of users already browsing and already funded.

Start at Publish an app.

What a PortModel is#

A PortModel is a developer-defined AI application layer: instructions, tools, memory, model routing, safety rules, and monetization settings combined into one named, deployable AI product. When these docs say "your app", that is what they mean.