OpenAI and Claude (Anthropic) for AI agent SaaS

Connect OpenAI, any OpenAI-compatible gateway (such as OpenRouter) or Anthropic Claude to a ShipAny app — the chat models that power the image, video and voice agent templates.

Last updated: Oct 8, 2026

ShipAny's agent templates use a chat model as the "brain": it reads what the user asks for, decides which tool to call — generate an image, edit it, animate it — and writes the prompt. You can plug in OpenAI, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or Anthropic Claude.

What ShipAny handles

  • Admin-configured providers: a base URL and API key for OpenAI and for Anthropic, stored in your config table rather than env files.
  • OpenAI-compatible gateways: point the OpenAI base URL at a gateway such as OpenRouter or Together, or your own proxy, to use other models through the same API.
  • Fallback between providers: in the agent templates, the default chat provider can prefer OpenAI and fall back to Anthropic.
  • Credits for tool calls: the media generation the agent triggers runs as metered AI tasks, so usage is billed in credits.

Setup

  1. Get an API key from OpenAI, Anthropic or your OpenAI-compatible gateway.
  2. In ShipAny, open Admin → Settings → AI and fill in the base URL and API key under OpenAI and/or Anthropic. Leave the base URL at its default for the official APIs.
  3. In an agent template, choose the default chat provider and model in its AI settings.
  4. Send a request in the app and confirm the agent responds and calls its tools.

Tips

  • Pick a model with reliable tool calling — agents depend on it more than on raw writing quality.
  • Keep the default and a fallback provider configured so a provider outage doesn't take your product down.

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