August 5 News.GitHub The official announcement was made yesterday (August 4) on the X platform.announced that the GitHub Models service now offers every GitHub user a free, Open-compatible, and easy-to-use modelling service.AI specification of the API.
GitHub Models are artificial intelligence models provided by GitHub to help developers automate project tasks, improve development efficiency, and support enterprise-level users to better manage and control their AI resources.
Any GitHub user can access mainstream models such as GPT-4o, DeepSeek-R1, Llama 3, etc. without a key, without a console, and without conflicting with existing configurations, and with support for deployment in local, server, and GitHub Actions environments. The service is free by default, and the paid version offers higher concurrency and a larger context window.
With GitHub Models, open source projects can directly integrate AI capabilities without the need to configure a third-party API key, simply provide a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT), or use the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN.
GitHub Models support a zero-configuration CI process that eliminates the need for users to add reasoning API keys as secrets to GitHub Actions. Paid reasoning can be enabled in settings at project launch, providing a larger context window and higher request rates to accommodate community growth.