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What is AI Engine ?

Learn about the benefits of using AI Engine.

AI Engine is a WordPress plugin that brings AI to your website. 🚀 It’s more than a chatbot plugin: it lets you use AI in many parts of your site, from your visitors’ chats to your own writing.

With AI Engine, you can:

  • Generate content for your site: posts, drafts and images
  • Build chatbots that give your visitors a ChatGPT-style experience
  • Test prompts and compare models side by side in the AI Playground
  • Chat with your AI right inside WordPress (and on your phone) with Workspace
  • Let Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents work on your site through MCP
  • Track AI usage, set limits, and even sell AI-powered services to your users
  • Create AI Forms to tailor your users inputs
  • Fine-tune OpenAI models (it still works, but OpenAI is winding it down)

But what makes AI Engine different is that you can build on it. It’s not just a collection of ready-made features: you can use it to create your own AI-powered tools. 💻

The plugin comes with a REST API and a PHP API that let you add AI to your own plugins and themes. And it works with many AI services, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, OpenRouter, and more. 🤖

Works With Other Meow Apps Plugins

AI Engine also works with the other Meow Apps plugins, so they can use AI too.

For example, with the Media File Renamer plugin, you can use AI Engine’s vision features to rename your images based on what they show. 📷 And with SEO Engine, the AI can analyze your content and help you improve it for search.

The Meow Apps team keeps adding new AI features and integrations, so there is always more to try. 🙌

What AI Engine Is Not

AI Engine can do a lot, but it’s important to understand what it is not.

First, AI Engine is not a customer support platform. It’s not a live chat tool where your team talks with your users in real time. Instead, it’s a toolbox for building AI features into your WordPress site.

In the same way, AI Engine is not an email capture tool or lead generation system. It doesn’t come with built-in features for collecting user information or putting content behind a paywall.

That said, if you need customer support, lead generation, or other customer-facing features, AI Engine is very customizable. You can build on it and shape it to do exactly what you need.

What you pay for

If you want to use OpenAI services, you have to pay for them. We are not affiliated with OpenAI in any way, so these payments will not benefit us. The same goes for the other AI providers.

You can use the free version of AI Engine, but you will still have to pay for the AI services you use.

If you pay for the AI Engine Pro version, you get access to the Pro-only features within the plugin, which are not related to accessing third-party services.

You are not limited to OpenAI. You can use OpenRouter, which offers some free AI models, or Ollama (through its add-on), which you can host yourself. This means you can use the free version of the plugin with free AI models, and pay for nothing if that works for you.