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Public Gaia Domains: Zero-Setup Access to Decentralized LLMs

Public Gaia Domains: Zero-Setup Access to Decentralized LLMs

Running your own Gaia Node is great when you need full control, but sometimes you just want to call an LLM endpoint and ship your product. Now you can use public Gaia Domains: ready-made, open-source models you can hit from Postman, LangChain, an IDE plug-in—anything that already works with the OpenAI HTTP spec.

Below is a quick primer on what public domains are, the problems they solve, and how to start querying a model like qwen7b.gaia.domains in under five minutes.

Gaia Public Domain 

Feature

What It Means for You

Single, human-readable URL

Example: qwen7b.gaia.domains/v1

OpenAI-compatible

Drop-in replacement for api.openai.com—same JSON, same headers

Load-balanced cluster

Traffic is routed across one or many nodes; no single point of failure

Fixed LLM + embeddings

Every node in the domain runs the same model family, so responses stay consistent

Free dev keys

Enable Developer Free Trial, mint a bearer token, and start calling

Think “ENS for AI”—but instead of mapping a name to a wallet address, we map it to a pool of self-hosted LLM nodes on the Gaia network.

Why Public Domains Matter

  • Zero InfrastructureNo GPU?  No problem. Skip the node install and start building.
  • Instant DiscoveryShare mybrand.gaia.domains with a teammate; they will have everything they need to connect.
  • True DecentralisationEven these shared domains still run on independent nodes. There’s no central server that can be shut down or censored.
  • Specialised KnowledgeDomain operators can fine-tune on docs, SDKs, or industry data—so you get answers that are actually useful (see the MetaMask example below).

Domain

Model / Use Case

Good For

llama8b.gaia.domains

Llama 3.1 8B + tool calling

General chat & prototyping

whisper.gaia.domains

Whisper v2 Large

Voice-to-text & transcription

portrait.gaia.domains

Stable Diffusion Realistic Vision V6

Photo-realistic image generation

coder.gaia.domains

STOA Coder LLM

Multi-language code help

qwen7b.gaia.domains

Qwen 7B

Non-English tasks & translation

Fast-Track: Calling Qwen 7B From an API Client

• Create / Enable a Developer Key Log in → Settings → API Keys → toggle Developer Free Trial. Copy the newly generated Bearer token.

• Set Up Your Request

• Send — the response comes straight from the decentralised cluster.Example output:

The same key works for any other public domain; just swap the URL and model name.

Behind the Scenes: How a Domain Works

  1. Load Balancer distributes the call to the least-busy node.
  2. Single-Model Policy ensures every node in that domain runs exactly Qwen 7B with the nomic-embed embedding model.
  3. Response flows back through the domain endpoint—no additional headers or weird auth required.

If you later spin up your own node that meets the domain’s policy, you can request to join the cluster and earn traffic-based rewards.

From Hobby to Production: Owning Your Domain

Public endpoints are perfect for prototyping, but when you need:

  • Brandable name
  • Custom knowledge base
  • Control over which nodes participate
  • Optional token-metered pricing

… launch a private Gaia Domain:

  1. Assets → Launch Domain
  2. Pick a tier (Bronze → Supreme) for future staking rewards.
  3. Point your existing node(s) at the domain—and you’re live.

That single URL becomes the gateway for your customers, bots, or on-chain agents to hit your LLM.

Try It Yourself

  • Public Gaia Domains — https://docs.gaianet.ai/nodes/
  • Chat with the team — join the Gaia Dev Discord

Skip the GPU rental. Hit a public Gaia Domain and start building with truly decentralised, open-source AI today.