# How to set up Discourse AI for internal-only usage

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [January 9, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-discourse-ai-for-internal-only-usage/393030 "2026-01-09T04:39:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-discourse-ai-for-internal-only-usage/393030/3 "2026-01-09T05:51:15Z")

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Ah, got it — thanks for clarifying! Yeah, I was thinking “extensions” in the sense of web searching or extra AI features.

For my setup, I’m using the MiMo API by Xiaomi, which gives me 1000 requests per month. Any use of additional extensions counts extra based on usage, and unfortunately I can’t disable that. The provider mentioned it depends on the length and complexity of the prompt — for example, if I or my users enter something like “search the latest news about…”, whether or not it exists on my forum, the model will do a web search in parallel. I really don’t have control over those extra costs.

I haven’t filled in any Google Custom Search Engine API keys — I just leave that empty and use the default settings for Forum Helper.

I was wondering if there’s any smart way to handle this? If I try to limit credits at the provider level, it ends up restricting all the models I’m running.

Also, apologies if my English is a bit hard to follow — I’m using a translator to communicate 🙂

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