Agno's Heabsy and FlexAI classes both extend OpenAILike, so tools, structured output and streaming behave the way they do with any OpenAI-compatible provider. Each one reads its key from its own environment variable and ships with a default model:
| Heabsy | FlexAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Import | from agno.models.heabsy import Heabsy | from agno.models.flexai import FlexAI |
| Model string | heabsy:<model> | flexai:<model> |
| API key | HEABSY_API_KEY | FLEXAI_API_KEY |
| Default model | qwen38 | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 |
| Base URL | https://api.heabsy.com/v1 | https://api.flex.ai/v1 |
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.flexai import FlexAI
from agno.models.heabsy import Heabsy
heabsy_agent = Agent(model=Heabsy(id="qwen38"), markdown=True)
flexai_agent = Agent(model=FlexAI(id="DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731"), markdown=True)
# Model strings resolve to the same classes
heabsy_agent = Agent(model="heabsy:qwen38", markdown=True)
flexai_agent = Agent(model="flexai:DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731", markdown=True)
flexai_agent.print_response("Explain quantum computing in simple terms")With no key set, both classes stop before the first request. Real output from resolving the two model strings:
heabsy:qwen38 -> Heabsy qwen38 https://api.heabsy.com/v1
ModelAuthenticationError HEABSY_API_KEY not set. Please set the HEABSY_API_KEY environment variable.
flexai:DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 -> FlexAI DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 https://api.flex.ai/v1
ModelAuthenticationError FLEXAI_API_KEY not set. Please set the FLEXAI_API_KEY environment variable.Heabsy's qwen38 is Qwen3.8 27B with a 262,144-token context, vision input and tool calling. You turn its reasoning on or off per request with extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}}. Heabsy serves no embeddings, so knowledge bases need a different embedder.
FlexAI hosts open-weight families such as DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Gemma, gpt-oss, Llama and MiniMax. Its default DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 has a 1M context and supports tool calls. Both providers list their current models at GET /v1/models. FlexAI's chat endpoint rejects n above 1 and the verbosity parameter.
See the Heabsy cookbook and the FlexAI cookbook, and learn more about OpenAI-compatible providers and model strings in the documentation.
Frequently asked questions
Set HEABSY_API_KEY, import Heabsy from agno.models.heabsy and pass model=Heabsy(id="qwen38") to your Agent. The model string "heabsy:qwen38" resolves to the same class.
Set FLEXAI_API_KEY, import FlexAI from agno.models.flexai and pass model=FlexAI(id="DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731"). Agno also accepts the string "flexai:DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731".
The model raises ModelAuthenticationError before it sends a request. The message names the variable to set, such as HEABSY_API_KEY not set. Please set the HEABSY_API_KEY environment variable.
No. Heabsy has no /v1/embeddings endpoint, so pick another embedder for your knowledge base. FlexAI does serve /embeddings, though this release adds only its chat model class.



