# ngrok AI Gateway console

> app.ngrok.ai is the authenticated console for the ngrok AI Gateway. Create and scope access keys, connect providers and self-hosted models, chat with models in a playground, watch per-request logs and spend, and manage prepaid credits.

Important notes:

- Apart from sign-up and log-in, every console page requires a session; unauthenticated requests redirect to the ngrok login flow. The public documents on this host are this file, `/robots.txt`, and `/sitemap.xml`.
- To automate what the console does, use the AI Gateway API at api.ngrok.ai instead of driving the UI. The OpenAPI spec is at https://ngrok.com/docs/openapi/ai-gateway.yaml and the per-operation reference starts at https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/api-reference/access-keys/list.md
- Applications never call this host. They call the gateway at https://gateway.ngrok.ai, authenticated with an access key created in this console.
- The public site for the AI Gateway is https://ngrok.ai/ (indexed at https://ngrok.ai/llms.txt), the documentation starts at https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/overview.md, and https://ngrok.com/llms.txt indexes the ngrok platform as a whole. Every docs page has a plain-markdown twin: append `.md` to the URL.

## Console pages

Sign-up and log-in are public; everything else requires a session.

- [Sign up](https://app.ngrok.ai/signup): Create an ngrok account or sign in with an existing one. One account works across ngrok.com and ngrok.ai.
- [Log in](https://app.ngrok.ai/login): Sign in to the console with your ngrok account.
- [Overview](https://app.ngrok.ai/overview): Gateway setup steps plus usage and performance at a glance.
- [Getting started](https://app.ngrok.ai/getting-started): Copy an SDK snippet prefilled with a real access key.
- [Playground](https://app.ngrok.ai/playground): Chat with models through the gateway from the browser, with matching code to copy.
- [Access keys](https://app.ngrok.ai/keys): Create and revoke the keys applications use to call the gateway. A key without a configuration is unrestricted.
- [Access key configurations](https://app.ngrok.ai/keys/configurations): Reusable scopes that limit which providers and models a key can call, and attach provider credentials.
- [Providers](https://app.ngrok.ai/providers): Built-in providers plus custom ones you add: a public OpenAI-compatible URL, or a local Ollama or LM Studio instance connected through ngrok.
- [Models](https://app.ngrok.ai/models): The models available to your account, with the `provider/model` IDs to use in requests.
- [Logs](https://app.ngrok.ai/usage): Per-request logs: model, tokens, latency, errors, and cost.
- [Settings](https://app.ngrok.ai/settings): Account-wide gateway timeouts and token limits, plus API keys for the api.ngrok.ai control plane.
- [Billing](https://app.ngrok.ai/billing): Credit balance and transaction history; buy prepaid credits through Stripe checkout.

## Automate with the API

- [AI Gateway OpenAPI spec](https://ngrok.com/docs/openapi/ai-gateway.yaml): OpenAPI 3.0.3 description of the api.ngrok.ai control plane: providers, keys, credits, and usage.
- [API reference](https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/api-reference/access-keys/list.md): Per-operation reference. Sibling resources under /docs/ai-gateway/api-reference/ cover access key configurations, provider keys, providers, API keys, credits, gateway config, and usage; the full list is in https://ngrok.com/docs/llms.txt
- Mint the API key on the [Settings](https://app.ngrok.ai/settings) page.

## Documentation

- [AI Gateway overview](https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/overview.md): Route requests to AI providers with automatic failover, load balancing, and observability.
- [Quickstart](https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/quickstart.md): Create an access key and make your first request through the gateway.
- [Access keys](https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/concepts/access-keys.md): The credential your application uses to authenticate with the gateway.
- [Credits](https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/concepts/credits.md): AI Gateway credits, pricing, and balance management.
- [FAQ](https://ngrok.com/docs/ai-gateway/faq.md): Frequently asked questions about ngrok.ai.

## Related indexes

- [ngrok.ai llms.txt](https://ngrok.ai/llms.txt): The AI Gateway's site index: key facts, pricing, and curated docs entry points.
- [ngrok.com llms.txt](https://ngrok.com/llms.txt): AI-agent index for the ngrok platform as a whole.
- [Docs index (llms.txt)](https://ngrok.com/docs/llms.txt): Flat index of every ngrok documentation page with `.md` links.
- [Status](https://status.ngrok.com/): Service status and incident history for ngrok, ngrok.ai included.