# Models and response settings

> Choose a model in DIA, set effort, length and creativity, use web search with sources, and generate images in a chat.

Source: https://docs.dia.now/models-and-responses

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.dia.now/llms.txt).

# Models and response settings

## Choose a model

Click the model name next to your message box. Search by name, filter the list, or use the tabs for recommended models, favorites, image models and each vendor. Each model shows about how many credits it uses.

Click the heart on a model to add it to Favorites. Favorites follow you across workspaces.

Owners and Admins decide which models your workspace can use, so your list may differ from someone else's in another workspace. New chats start on your own default model, then the workspace default, then the first model allowed. Set yours in **Settings > General** under **Your preferences**.

You can switch models during a chat.

## Adjust the response

Click the effort button by the message box to open the **Response** panel.

| Setting | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Effort | Quick, Balanced or Deep. Admins can set a maximum. |
| Length | Short, Normal or Detailed. |
| Web search | Lets DIA look things up when it helps. |
| Creativity | A slider from Precise to Creative, under Advanced. |
| Instructions for this chat | Your own guidance for this chat, under Advanced. |

Click **Use as my default for new chats** to keep these settings, or **Reset** to clear them.

## Web search

Web search is on by default. Replies that use it list their sources, so you can check them. Turn it off for a chat in the **Response** panel. Owners and Admins can turn it off for the workspace with **Let models search the web** in **Settings > Models**.

## Images

Pick a model from the **Image** tab, or just ask for a picture in your chat. If you haven't chosen an image model, DIA asks you to pick one and remembers it. You can change it under **Image model** in **Settings > General**.

Generated images offer **Edit image...** and **Try another model**. Each model has its own credit price, shown in the picker.

## What replies can contain

Besides text, a reply can include tables, charts, code blocks, maths and maps. Tables have **Copy**. **Open as sheet** on a table downloads it as a CSV file. Charts have **View as table** and **Download PNG**.