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Gondola ships as a built-in provider in Zot, the single-binary Go coding agent. One env var and you are running any Venice model, paid per request in USDC on Base.
Gondola is built in from v0.3.43 onward, so check your version if you already have the binary.
Sign in with your Base wallet at /dashboard?tab=keys and mint a Gondola API key. Keys start with gnd_. It authenticates every request and each call is charged in USDC against your Gondola balance.
Top up USDC on Base once at /wallet. The same balance powers the browser chat and every tool you connect.
Zot derives the env var from the provider id, upper snake case, so gondola reads GONDOLA_API_KEY. No config file: the provider already points at https://api.gondola-ai.com/v1.
The default is kimi-k3, a strong agentic coder at a fraction of frontier pricing. Switch any time with /model inside the TUI, or --model <id> on the command line.
Zot discovers Gondola's live text catalog in the background and adds it to the picker, so a model Venice adds today is selectable the same day with no config edit. Current prices are on the model board.
If a request returns insufficient balance, top up at /wallet. Every response also carries your remaining balance in x-gondola-balance.