# Tempr

> Tempr (temprhq.io) lets your team use any AI and keeps control of all of it. The Gateway puts Claude Code on your Claude plan, Codex on ChatGPT, 30 coding plans and any tool or app on your own keys from 34 providers behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with one set of budgets, guardrails, logs and MCP governance. Tempr's own agents run on the same keys and rules: Chat inside Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, and the CLI in your terminal and CI. A third, Tempr Code (the agent in its own desktop app), is in development. Everything is bring-your-own-key (BYOK): Tempr never fronts provider tokens or takes a cut of them.

Key facts, from https://temprhq.io/faq:

- What is Tempr? Tempr lets a team use any AI and keep control of all of it. The Gateway is one OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of your own provider keys and the AI plans you already pay for: Claude Code on a Claude plan, Codex on ChatGPT, 30 coding plans, and any other tool or app. Every request gets the same budgets, guardrails, logs and MCP governance. Tempr's own coding agent runs on the same keys and rules in your IDE (Chat), your terminal and CI (CLI) and, soon, its own desktop app (Code). All of it shares one account and one Portal. You pay your providers directly for tokens; Tempr charges for the product, never for the tokens.
- How much does Tempr cost? The Agents plan, for Tempr Chat and the CLI, is Standard $15/mo or Pro $20/mo (Teams from $35/seat/mo), and the Gateway starts free with paid tiers at $49/mo and $249/mo, which include one and five Agents seats (more at $35/seat/mo for a team). Full breakdowns and comparison tables are on the pricing page.
- Is there a free plan? The Gateway has a free tier: 10,000 requests a month, no card required. Chat and the CLI don't have a free plan, but every paid Agents plan starts with a 7-day free trial, and the CLI is included with it.
- Does Tempr mark up token prices? No. Every request goes out on a key you supplied, at your provider's own rates; Tempr never fronts tokens or takes a cut. What you pay Tempr for is the product wrapped around your key: the IDE extension and CLI tooling, or the Gateway's virtual keys, logs, and analytics.
- Which providers are supported? 34 providers you bring an API key for: first-party providers, inference hosts, cloud platforms, and aggregators, all enforced by a server-side allowlist. The Gateway also works with the plans you already pay for: Claude plans through Claude Code, ChatGPT plans through Codex, and 30 coding plans such as Ollama Cloud and the Z.AI GLM Coding Plan. See the full, current list on the providers page; if yours isn't listed yet, tell us and we'll look at adding it. You can also run models on your own OpenAI-compatible server as custom models.
- Is my code sent anywhere besides the provider I choose? Your requests are relayed through our servers to the provider or aggregator you configure, always using your own key, never pooled or shared with other customers. When you use agent mode, the multi-turn tool-calling loop runs server-side for reliability (so it can survive a dropped connection and resume mid-turn); tool-call requests and results, which can include snippets of your code, pass through our servers and are retained there to support that run.
- How are my provider keys stored? Encrypted at rest, never logged in plain text, and never pooled or shared across customers; requests always go out on the key you supplied, for the account you configured.

## Product pages

- [Tempr](https://temprhq.io/): Run Claude Code on your Claude plan, Codex on ChatGPT, and any tool or app on your API keys, with one set of budgets, guardrails and logs over all of it.
- [Tempr Chat](https://temprhq.io/chat): Your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or OpenRouter key for chat, inline completion and agent tools in Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains. 7-day free trial.
- [Tempr CLI](https://temprhq.io/cli): Tempr CLI: the same BYOK agent as in your IDE, in the terminal. One-shot prompts, an interactive REPL with history, and piped headless mode for scripts.
- [Tempr Gateway](https://temprhq.io/gateway): An OpenAI-compatible AI gateway for your own keys and AI plans: Claude Code on your Claude plan, Codex on ChatGPT, 30 coding plans, with logs and guardrails.
- [Tempr Code](https://temprhq.io/code): Tempr Code is a bring-your-own-key coding agent desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux: parallel chats on worktrees, diff review, MCP. In development.
- [Tempr's agents](https://temprhq.io/agents): Tempr's coding agent runs in Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, the terminal and CI, and its own desktop app, on your own provider keys.
- [Use your AI plans](https://temprhq.io/plans): Run Claude Code on your Claude plan, Codex on your ChatGPT plan, and coding plans from Z.AI, Kimi and MiniMax through Tempr, with logs, limits and guardrails.
- [Control AI spend](https://temprhq.io/spend): Monthly budgets for the organization, teams, groups, members and keys, hourly or daily rules, and a cost cap per agent run. Limits block; they don't bill.
- [Keep secrets out of AI](https://temprhq.io/security): Flag, mask or block secrets and personal data in prompts and answers, in the IDE, the terminal, agent runs, Claude Code, Codex and your own apps.
- [Govern MCP tools](https://temprhq.io/mcp-governance): Connect MCP servers to Tempr once. Tool Packs decide who may call which tools, guardrails check what goes in and out, and every member signs in as themselves.
- [Integrations](https://temprhq.io/integrations): Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Zed and your own apps to Tempr with a base URL and a key, plus AI plans, 34 providers and MCP.
- [Claude Code on your team's Claude plans](https://temprhq.io/claude-code-team): Run Claude Code on each member's own Claude Pro or Max plan through Tempr, with request logs, limits, guardrails and a fallback model when a plan runs out.
- [A BYOK AI coding assistant for Visual Studio](https://temprhq.io/visual-studio-ai-assistant): Tempr Chat brings agent mode, chat and inline completion to Visual Studio 2022 and 2026, on your own API key from 34 providers. 7-day free trial.
- [Pricing](https://temprhq.io/pricing): Tempr pricing: Agents for Chat and the CLI from $15/mo, Teams from $35/seat; Gateway Free, Pro $49/mo, Scale $249/mo. Every plan is bring-your-own-key.
- [Model catalog](https://temprhq.io/models): 440 AI models available through Tempr, from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral and more, with reference pricing, context windows and capabilities.
- [Providers](https://temprhq.io/providers): Every AI provider Tempr supports: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, OpenRouter and more. Bring your own key in Chat, CLI and Gateway.
- [FAQ](https://temprhq.io/faq): Frequently asked questions about Tempr: the products (Chat, CLI, Gateway, plus Tempr Code in development), bring-your-own-key, privacy, billing, plans, and trials.
- [MCP servers](https://temprhq.io/mcp): Browse the Tempr MCP catalog: curated, one-click-install MCP servers that give the agent your own tools and data, like GitHub, Postgres and Playwright.
- [Changelog](https://temprhq.io/changelog): What's new in Tempr: every release of the Tempr Gateway, the VS Code, JetBrains and Visual Studio extensions, the CLI and the Portal, newest first.
- [Blog](https://temprhq.io/blog): Notes from the team building Tempr: how the Gateway, the IDE extensions and the CLI work, and what we learn running them across every AI provider.

## Comparisons

- [Tempr vs AI gateways and coding assistants](https://temprhq.io/compare): How Tempr compares with the AI gateways Portkey, LiteLLM and OpenRouter and the coding assistants Copilot, Cursor and Cline, and where each fits best.
- [Tempr vs GitHub Copilot](https://temprhq.io/tempr-vs-github-copilot): Tempr vs GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains IDEs: what your own API key covers, inline completion, pricing and where your code goes.
- [Tempr vs Cursor](https://temprhq.io/tempr-vs-cursor): Tempr vs Cursor: an extension for Visual Studio, VS Code and JetBrains versus a separate AI editor. What your own key covers, pricing, and where code goes.
- [Tempr vs Cline](https://temprhq.io/tempr-vs-cline): Tempr vs Cline: IDE support including Visual Studio, inline completion, agent features, pricing and where requests go. Both use your own API keys.
- [Tempr vs Continue (discontinued)](https://temprhq.io/tempr-vs-continue): Continue was acquired by Cursor in June 2026 and is no longer maintained. How Tempr compares for BYOK chat, agent and autocomplete in VS Code and JetBrains.

## Blog

- [Putting a price ceiling on an agent run](https://temprhq.io/blog/a-price-ceiling-for-agent-runs): An agent run's cost can't be known in advance. How Tempr lets you, and your organization, cap what one run may spend and see which runs cost the most.
- [An agent sandbox with nothing to install](https://temprhq.io/blog/a-sandbox-with-nothing-to-install): How the Tempr CLI lets an agent run any build or test command without asking, by limiting what it can touch, and why we built it on Linux's Landlock.
- [Budgets that hold under concurrency](https://temprhq.io/blog/budgets-that-hold-under-concurrency): A plain budget check lets concurrent requests overspend together. How Tempr's Strict option reserves each request's worst case, and why it's off by default.
- [Every MCP tool call through one Gateway](https://temprhq.io/blog/every-mcp-tool-call-through-one-place): MCP gives coding agents real tools, plus tokens on every laptop and shared bot accounts. How Tempr's Gateway relays MCP so calls run as the right person.
- [One plan, many keys: team Gateway limits](https://temprhq.io/blog/one-plan-many-keys): A team has a Gateway key for each app, CI job and person. How Tempr's plan limits, key limits, member budgets and organization caps fit together, and why.
- [One reasoning setting for every AI provider](https://temprhq.io/blog/one-reasoning-setting-every-provider): Every AI lab names its reasoning controls differently, and one model can act differently on two hosts. How Tempr gives you one setting that works everywhere.
- [OpenAI's newest models on chat completions](https://temprhq.io/blog/openai-newest-models-on-chat-completions): OpenAI's pro, codex and newest gpt-6 models work partly or only on its Responses API. How Tempr bridges chat completions to them so your tools keep working.
- [Paid MCP tools: refused clearly, never paid](https://temprhq.io/blog/paid-mcp-tools-refused-never-paid): Some MCP servers now charge per tool call, through x402 or MPP. Why Tempr doesn't pay, and how it makes the refusal clear instead of a confusing error.
- [The Tempr CLI in pipes, scripts and CI](https://temprhq.io/blog/piping-into-the-tempr-cli): The Tempr CLI reads stdin, writes stdout and exits with a meaningful code, so an agent fits a shell pipeline or CI job. Patterns that work, and what we fixed.
- [Reasoning that survives a model switch](https://temprhq.io/blog/reasoning-that-survives-a-model-switch): Every provider returns reasoning in its own shape, and some need it back next turn. How Tempr returns one shape and keeps conversations working across models.
- [Remote MCP servers with sign-in filled in](https://temprhq.io/blog/remote-mcp-servers-with-sign-in): The Portal now lists 60 checked remote MCP servers and searches the MCP registry. What "checked" means, and why each member signs in as themselves.
- [Running Codex CLI on Claude and any model](https://temprhq.io/blog/running-codex-cli-on-any-model): Codex CLI speaks OpenAI's Responses API. How Tempr Gateway's /v1/responses runs it on Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and more, what carries over, and what doesn't.
- [Seeing your Gateway traffic in the Portal](https://temprhq.io/blog/seeing-your-gateway-traffic): The questions a team asks about its model traffic, like why cost jumped or which customer is spending, and where the Tempr Portal answers each one.
- [When a provider retires an API](https://temprhq.io/blog/when-a-provider-retires-an-api): Perplexity replaced its Sonar chat completions with a new Agent API, retired on September 27. What changed for Tempr users, and how Tempr handles retirements.

## Install

- [Visual Studio extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tempr.TemprChat): Tempr Chat for Visual Studio 2022 and 2026, on the Visual Studio Marketplace
- [VS Code extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Tempr.tempr-chat): Tempr Chat for VS Code, on the Visual Studio Marketplace
- [VS Code extension (Open VSX)](https://open-vsx.org/extension/tempr/tempr-chat): The same VS Code extension, on the Open VSX Registry
- [JetBrains plugin](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/33782-tempr-chat): Tempr Chat for IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, and the other JetBrains IDEs
- [Tempr CLI (install script)](https://temprhq.io/cli#install): Self-contained builds for Windows, macOS and Linux: curl -fsSL https://temprhq.io/cli/install.sh | sh, or irm https://temprhq.io/cli/install.ps1 | iex
- [Tempr CLI (npm)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tempr/cli): npm i -g @tempr/cli
- [Tempr CLI (Homebrew)](https://github.com/chrissalomon/homebrew-tempr): Homebrew tap for macOS and Linux: brew tap chrissalomon/tempr, brew trust chrissalomon/tempr, brew install tempr
- [Tempr CLI (Scoop)](https://github.com/chrissalomon/scoop-tempr): Scoop bucket for Windows: scoop bucket add tempr https://github.com/chrissalomon/scoop-tempr, then scoop install tempr
- [Tempr CLI (NuGet)](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Tempr.Cli): .NET global tool: dotnet tool install -g Tempr.Cli (needs the .NET SDK)

## Docs: Getting Started

- [Introduction](https://temprhq.io/docs/): Tempr documentation: quickstarts, guides, and API reference for the Chat IDE extension, the Tempr CLI, and the Tempr Gateway API.
- [Quickstart: Chat in your IDE](https://temprhq.io/docs/quickstart-ide): Install the Tempr extension in Visual Studio, VS Code, or a JetBrains IDE, activate a license, add a provider key, and send your first chat message.
- [Quickstart: Gateway API](https://temprhq.io/docs/quickstart-gateway): Get a Tempr Gateway virtual key and make your first OpenAI-compatible request in under 5 minutes.
- [Quickstart: Tempr CLI](https://temprhq.io/docs/quickstart-cli): Install the Tempr CLI, sign in with your license key, and run your first agent turn from the terminal.
- [Teams & SSO](https://temprhq.io/docs/teams-sso): Tempr for organizations - centralized billing, seat management, shared personas, SSO (SAML/OIDC), and org-managed virtual keys with per-member limits.
- [Org rules & skills](https://temprhq.io/docs/org-rules-and-skills): Publish your organization's rules and skills once, and every Tempr agent follows them: required and recommended rules, SKILL.md skills, personas and commands.

## Docs: Chat (IDE)

- [Providers & BYOK](https://temprhq.io/docs/providers): The full list of AI providers Tempr supports, how bring-your-own-key works, and how provider keys are stored and encrypted.
- [Custom models](https://temprhq.io/docs/custom-models): Run models on your own OpenAI-compatible server (vLLM, SGLang, LiteLLM) through Tempr Gateway, Chat and the CLI: endpoints, keys, model names and pricing.
- [Agent modes & personas](https://temprhq.io/docs/agent-modes): Interactive, Bypass, and Autopilot agent modes; named agent personas; and multi-agent delegation in Tempr Chat.
- [Inline completion](https://temprhq.io/docs/ide-completion): Ghost-text inline completion in Visual Studio, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs - same BYOK providers as chat, per-scenario models, included on every plan.
- [Sessions, history & cloud sync](https://temprhq.io/docs/ide-sessions): How Tempr saves chat sessions, what syncs across machines on Standard and above, and why agent runs survive dropped connections.
- [MCP servers](https://temprhq.io/docs/mcp): Connect Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to extend the Tempr agent with your own tools and data sources.
- [MCP Connectors for Claude, ChatGPT and More](https://temprhq.io/docs/mcp-connectors): Add your MCP servers to claude.ai, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT or Claude Code as one connector URL. Every call goes through your Tool Packs, guardrails and logs.

## Docs: CLI

- [CLI Command Reference](https://temprhq.io/docs/cli-reference): Every Tempr CLI command, flag, and REPL slash command: one-shot prompts, the interactive REPL, piped headless mode, session resume, and the agent tool set.
- [CLI: Config & troubleshooting](https://temprhq.io/docs/cli-config): Sign in and out, pick a default model, set up permission rules, hooks, plugins and language servers, and fix the CLI failures that actually happen.
- [CLI Scripts, Pipes & CI](https://temprhq.io/docs/cli-scripts): Use the Tempr CLI headless: pipe prompts in, read output out, stream JSON events, and run it in scripts and CI with per-run model and auto-approve flags.
- [Tempr in Your Editor (ACP)](https://temprhq.io/docs/cli-editors): Run Tempr as an Agent Client Protocol agent in Zed, JetBrains AI Assistant, Neovim and Emacs: tool calls with diffs, approvals, sessions and settings in the editor.
- [Local models](https://temprhq.io/docs/local-models): Run the Tempr CLI's agent free on a model on your own machine or network: Ollama and LM Studio found at their default ports, or any OpenAI-compatible server.

## Docs: Gateway API

- [Authentication & virtual keys](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-auth): How Tempr Gateway authentication works: virtual keys, model allowlists, budgets, and rate limits.
- [Claude, ChatGPT and Coding Plans via Gateway](https://temprhq.io/docs/ai-plans): Run Claude Code on your Claude plan, Codex on ChatGPT, and 30 coding plans like Z.AI, Kimi and MiniMax through Tempr Gateway, with logs, limits and fallback.
- [Coding Plans: Models, APIs and Supported Tools](https://temprhq.io/docs/coding-plans): Every coding plan Tempr Gateway serves, from Z.AI GLM and Kimi Code to MiniMax: provider ids, models, APIs, supported tools, and where to get the key.
- [Gateway: Virtual keys cookbook](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-cookbook): Practical virtual key recipes for the Tempr Gateway - one key per environment, self-capping budgets, model allowlists, instant revocation.
- [Chat Completions](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-chat-completions): Full reference for POST /v1/chat/completions on Tempr Gateway: parameters, streaming, tool calling, response shape, and headers.
- [Embeddings](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-embeddings): Full reference for POST /v1/embeddings on Tempr Gateway: parameters, providers and models, dimensions, response shape, and what applies to embeddings.
- [Models, limits & logs](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-reference): Tempr Gateway's GET /v1/models, rate limits, monthly quotas, overage, fallback chains, caching, request logs, content capture and Enterprise log streaming.
- [Errors](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-errors): Tempr Gateway error shape and status codes: auth, rate limits, quota, model allowlist, and upstream provider errors.
- [Management API](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-management-api): Create, change and revoke Tempr Gateway virtual keys and read usage from your own scripts, with a management key.
- [The Gateway's MCP Server for AI Agents](https://temprhq.io/docs/gateway-mcp): Let Claude Code, Codex, claude.ai or ChatGPT read your Tempr Gateway's usage, cost, request logs, keys and provider health, and tighten it if you allow.

## Docs: Guides

- [Claude Code Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-claude-code): Point Claude Code at Tempr Gateway and run GPT-5, Gemini, or any model on your allowlist (not just Claude) via ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN.
- [Claude Desktop Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-claude-desktop): Run Claude Desktop through Tempr Gateway with its third-party inference mode, and roll the setup out to every Mac and Windows PC with a device-management profile.
- [Cursor Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-cursor): Override Cursor's OpenAI base URL to run any model on your own gateway allowlist, billed through your own BYOK keys.
- [Cline Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-cline): Point Cline at Tempr Gateway to reach every model you've configured through one provider entry and one key.
- [Roo Code Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-roo-code): Point Roo Code at Tempr Gateway to reach every model on your allowlist through one OpenAI Compatible provider entry.
- [Kilo Code Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-kilo-code): Point Kilo Code at Tempr Gateway to reach every model on your allowlist through one custom provider entry.
- [Continue Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-continue): Point Continue at Tempr Gateway via config.yaml's apiBase field to reach every model on your allowlist with one key.
- [Zed Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-zed): Add Tempr Gateway as a custom provider in Zed to list every model on your allowlist under one key.
- [Codex CLI Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-codex-cli): Point Codex CLI at Tempr Gateway as a custom model provider and run Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, or OpenAI's own codex models over the Responses API.
- [Aider Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-aider): Point Aider at Tempr Gateway via OPENAI_API_BASE to reach every model on your allowlist under one key.
- [Crush Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-crush): Add Tempr as a custom provider in Crush to reach every model on your allowlist under one config block.
- [OpenCode Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-opencode): Add Tempr as a custom provider in OpenCode to reach every model on your allowlist under one config block.
- [n8n Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-n8n): Route n8n's OpenAI node through Tempr Gateway to call Claude, Gemini, or any model in your workflows, not just OpenAI's.
- [GitHub Copilot App Integration](https://temprhq.io/docs/guide-github-copilot): Use Tempr Gateway as a BYOK provider so GitHub Copilot's agent sessions can run any model, not just Copilot's curated list.

## Optional

- [Contact](https://temprhq.io/contact): Contact the Tempr team with questions about pricing, a Teams plan, Gateway plans, or something not working as expected. We reply to every message.
- [Terms of Service](https://temprhq.io/terms): Terms of Service for Tempr, the bring-your-own-key platform for AI coding agents and model access: Tempr Chat, CLI, Code, and Gateway.
- [Privacy Policy](https://temprhq.io/privacy): Privacy Policy for Tempr, a bring-your-own-key AI coding assistant for Visual Studio, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs.
- [Cookie Policy](https://temprhq.io/cookies): Cookie Policy for the Tempr marketing website and customer portal.
- [Vulnerability Disclosure](https://temprhq.io/disclosure): How to report a security vulnerability in Tempr, what we commit to in return, and the rules for good-faith security research.
- [EULA](https://temprhq.io/eula): End User License Agreement for Tempr software: the extensions for Visual Studio, VS Code, and JetBrains IDEs, the Tempr CLI, and related clients.