QAFlow supports 4 AI providers out of the box. Groq is the recommended starting point — it is free up to 100,000 tokens per day and requires no credit card.

Groq (Free Tier) — Recommended Start

1. Go to console.groq.com and sign up (free)
2. API Keys → Create API Key → copy the key
3. In QAFlow admin → AI Settings → Groq section → paste key
4. Select model: llama-3.3-70b-versatile (fast + strong) or mixtral-8x7b-32768 (long context)
5. Click Test Connection — should return "Connected"

OpenAI (GPT-4, GPT-4o)

1. Sign up at platform.openai.com and add billing ($5 minimum deposit)
2. API Keys → Create new secret key → copy
3. In QAFlow admin → AI Settings → OpenAI section → paste key
4. Select model: gpt-4o-mini (cheapest, excellent quality) or gpt-4o (flagship)

Google Gemini

1. Go to ai.google.dev and create an API key (free tier available)
2. Paste key in QAFlow admin → AI Settings → Gemini section
3. Select model: gemini-1.5-flash (fast, cheap) or gemini-1.5-pro (quality)

Anthropic Claude

1. Sign up at console.anthropic.com, add billing
2. Copy API key from the Keys page
3. Paste in QAFlow admin → AI Settings → Claude section
4. Recommended model: claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022

How QAFlow Uses AI

• Content generation — Generate sample Q&A, blog posts, forum topics to seed your community
• Auto-answer — Suggest AI answers to unanswered questions
• Translation — Translate content to 30+ languages on-demand
• Summarization — Auto-summarize long discussion threads
• Chatbot widget — 24/7 support bot trained on your docs + Q&A

Switching Between Providers

QAFlow lets you enable multiple providers and pick which one handles each task. Admin → AI Settings → scroll to "Per-Feature AI Provider" to assign differently per feature.