About the team

We build tools that
put open-source AI in your hands.

The team behind VKGames has one focus: remove every barrier between anyone and the most capable open-source language models on the planet. No subscription. No waitlist. No data harvesting.

100%

Open-source models

Free

Always, for everyone

0 bits

Of your data retained

0$

To use any model

Why we built this

Accessing frontier-level language models has always come with a catch — an API key, a credit card, a usage cap, or a terms of service that grants the platform rights over everything you type. We found that unacceptable.

Open-source models have reached a point where they are genuinely powerful. They can reason through complex problems, write clean code, assist with research, and hold nuanced conversations. The only missing piece was a clean, reliable, zero-friction interface to run them. That is exactly what we built.

VKGames is a launcher. You pick a model, you type, the model responds. No account required to get started. No prompt is logged. No conversation is ever used to train or fine-tune anything. What you type stays between you and the model's weights — period.

The posts you find on this site are written by the team and exist to share context around the models we host — what they're good at, how they compare, new releases, and occasionally broader perspectives on the open-source ecosystem. They are a side product, not the mission itself.

What sets us apart

No lock-in, ever

The models we serve are open-weight. Their architecture and parameters are public. You are not depending on a black box.

Zero retention policy

Conversations are streamed directly to your browser. We do not store message content on any server beyond the duration of the request.

Self-hosted inference

Models run on infrastructure we control. There is no third-party AI provider sitting between you and the model.

Permanently free tier

Access to every listed model is free to use. A credit system exists for heavier use-cases — but the base experience costs nothing.

Our principles

Three commitments we will not trade away, regardless of monetisation, growth, or external pressure.

Privacy by default

No account is needed to run a model. If you choose to create one, your conversation history is stored exclusively for your own use and never shared.

Open-source only

Every model on the platform has publicly available weights. We will never gate-keep access to proprietary closed models or resell API credits.

Respect for users

No dark patterns, no manipulative upsells, no email harassment. If you want to upgrade, the option is visible and straightforward — nothing more.

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