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| [Venice AI](https://venice.ai/home) | Provides access to open source models like Llama, Mistral, and Qwen while prioritizing user privacy. **Requires an account and an [API key](https://docs.venice.ai/overview/guides/generating-api-key)**. | `VENICE_API_KEY`, `VENICE_HOST` (optional), `VENICE_BASE_PATH` (optional), `VENICE_MODELS_PATH` (optional) |
| [xAI](https://x.ai/) | Access to xAI's Grok models including grok-3, grok-3-mini, and grok-3-fast with 131,072 token context window. | `XAI_API_KEY`, `XAI_HOST` (optional) |

:::tip Prompt Caching for Claude Models
goose automatically enables Anthropic's [prompt caching](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching) when using Claude models via Anthropic, Databricks, OpenRouter, and LiteLLM providers. This adds `cache_control` markers to requests, which can reduce costs for longer conversations by caching frequently-used context. See the [provider implementations](https://github.com/block/goose/tree/main/crates/goose/src/providers) for technical details.
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linked to providers directory to help future proof the list of providers

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### CLI Providers

goose also supports special "pass-through" providers that work with existing CLI tools, allowing you to use your subscriptions instead of paying per token:
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