Using AI in your Nextcloud with your own API key
With Nextcloud Family and Nextcloud Max, you can use AI in your own Nextcloud. To do this, you connect your own account with an AI provider. For now, WebOké doesn't charge anything for this.
What can it do?
- Chat with the Assistant in your Nextcloud.
- Summarise, rewrite and translate texts.
- With OpenAI, you can also create images and convert speech to text.
What do you need?
An API key from one of these providers: Mistral (processing in the EU), OpenAI or Anthropic Claude. You pay the provider directly per use. A subscription such as ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro won't work here: you really need an API key.
How to turn it on
- Go to My Products and open your Nextcloud package.
- On the AI Assistant in Nextcloud card, choose your provider under AI provider and paste your key into the API key field.
- Click Check and enable. We check the key with the provider and set everything up. This usually takes less than a minute.
- Open your Nextcloud and choose the Assistant.
Only the account owner can turn AI on or off. It isn't available with Nextcloud Free and Personal; you need at least Nextcloud Family for that.
Privacy
We don't store your key: it goes encrypted directly to your own Nextcloud. The texts you give to the AI go to the provider you choose. If you want everything to stay in the EU, choose Mistral.
Your own key per user
Each user of your Nextcloud can also set up their own key under Personal settings, Artificial Intelligence.
Turning it off
On the same card, click Disable AI. Your key will then be removed from your Nextcloud and the Assistant disappears. Your files simply stay where they are.
See also: Connecting your own AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat) to your Nextcloud, if you'd rather work with your Nextcloud from your own AI app.
Detailed explanation with screenshots: AI Assistant in your Nextcloud in the Nextcloud manual.