Tao: One Gateway to Every Service

Tao is the capability gateway for Yao Agents. AI models, search, fetch, storage — everything your agents need, all behind one key, billed in credits.

![Tao services](https://cdn.yaoagents.cn/assets/en/tao/services-en-$__THEME.png)

## What's included

| Service | What it does | Endpoint |
|------|------|------|
| AI Models | Chat, vision | `/v1/chat/completions` |
| Structured Decisions | Classification, routing, scoring, extraction (Jev) | `/v1/decisions` |
| Search | Web search | `/v1/search` |
| Fetch | Fetch web pages | `/v1/fetch` |
| OCR | Extract text from images | `/v1/ocr/type` |
| Image | Generate and edit images | `/v1/images/generations`, `/v1/images/edits` |
| Audio | Transcribe and synthesize speech | `/v1/audio/transcriptions`, `/v1/audio/speech` |
| Embeddings | Text embeddings | `/v1/embeddings` |

## How to connect

1. Open the [sign-up page](/register) — you get 1,000 credits when you register.
2. In the console, click **Create New Key** and copy the key.
3. Open Yao Agents, choose **Use Tao Service**, paste the key, and click **Verify and Configure**.

Once it's connected, Settings shows **Connected** and your model configuration is filled in automatically.

![Model configuration](https://cdn.yaoagents.cn/assets/en/tao/account-setup-10-en-$__THEME.png)

Tao speaks the OpenAI API, so you can call it directly without Yao Agents.

## Pricing

Metered in credits: models, structured decisions, and embeddings by tokens; search and fetch by requests; image and OCR by images; audio by seconds or characters.

> Tao is in Beta — give it a try.