autogen/website/docs/topics/non-openai-models/about-using-nonopenai-models.md
# Non-OpenAI Models  AutoGen allows you to use non-OpenAI models through proxy servers that provide an OpenAI-compatible API or a [custom model client](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/01/26/Custom-Models) class.  Benefits of this flexibility include access to hundreds of models, assigning specialized models to agents (e.g., fine-tuned coding models), the ability to run AutoGen entirely within your environment, utilising both OpenAI and non-OpenAI models in one system, and cost reductions in inference. 