The AI features use your own API key, added on the Integrations and AI tab. You pay the provider directly at cost, with no markup and no credits to buy inside the plugin. AI is switched off until you turn it on, and everything else in the plugin works without it.
Getting a key, whichever suits you:
- Google Gemini: create a key at aistudio.google.com/apikey with any Google account. Keys start with AIza. Gemini has a free tier, so this is the one to pick if you would rather not pay anyone to try the AI features.
- Claude, from Anthropic: create a key at console.anthropic.com. Keys start with sk-ant-.
- OpenAI, ChatGPT: create a key at platform.openai.com. Keys start with sk-.
One key is enough. Paste it into that provider's card, choose a model and click Save AI settings, then click Test connection on that card. A green message confirms the connection and names the model in use. Each card tests its own provider directly, so a broken key can never look healthy because another provider answered for it.
Already running ResultsAiX Mailer or the ResultsAiX Theme?
If either of those already has an AI key saved on this site, this plugin can simply use it, and the provider card will say so. Nothing is copied: the other product keeps its key and this one reads it each time, so changing or removing it there changes it here too. Paste your own key here at any point to use a different one.
A backup provider:
Add a second key and you can choose a fallback. When the primary provider fails, whether that is a rate limit, an outage or a rejected key, the fallback is tried automatically and you usually never notice. Leave it on None if you only want one provider used.
Which model should I choose?
The recommended model at the top of each list is fast, cheap and genuinely good enough for drafting surveys and summarising results. The others trade speed for depth and are worth it when you have a large, messy set of written answers to make sense of. Model names change as providers release new ones; if a provider ever tells you it does not recognise a model, pick one from the dropdown and save again.
What it costs, and seeing it:
These are small, occasional calls rather than a constant drain: one when you generate a survey, and one each time you ask it to read your results. The AI usage panel on the same tab lists every call with the model, how long it took and what it cost, plus totals for the last thirty days. You can set a monthly spend reminder, which warns you but never blocks: only your provider can actually stop spending, and all of them let you set a hard cap.
How your key is stored:
Obfuscated, never in plain text. The field is always rendered empty with only a masked hint, so the key cannot leak back out through the screen or into a screenshot. Leave it blank to keep the key you have, paste a new one to replace it, or tick Remove this key to clear it.