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Your Osaurus account

Your Osaurus account is a key held on your PC, not a username and password on a server. It pays for Osaurus Cloud models, and it's what lets your agents pair with your iPhone and other machines. Use the same account on a Mac and a PC and both share one balance. Settings are in Settings → Account.

Local models are free and don't need an account.

Create an account​

If you chose Osaurus Cloud during setup, Osaurus already created one. Otherwise, click Create account.

Osaurus then shows your recovery phrase: 24 words that are the only way to recover your account or use it on another machine. There's no cloud backup, and Osaurus can't recover it for you. Copy it or click Save to file, keep it somewhere safe, and click I've saved it.

Back up your recovery phrase​

If you skipped it, or setup created your account for you: click Show recovery phrase. Windows Hello asks you to confirm it's you first. Anyone who sees these words can use your account, so don't do this while sharing your screen.

Credits​

Credits shows your balance for Osaurus Cloud. Click Add credits to top up (at least $5.00); payment finishes in your browser. Recent spend lists what was billed.

Let local apps spend credits without a key is off by default, so another app on your PC can't run Osaurus Cloud models on your balance without an access key.

Use your Mac account on this PC​

  1. Click I already have one (or Restore a different account if this PC already has one).
  2. Type or paste the 24-word recovery phrase from your Mac (on a Mac it's under Identity, in Settings…).
  3. Check the address shown matches your Mac's, then click Restore account.

Replacing an account makes the old one's balance unreachable from this PC unless you've saved its recovery phrase.

Under the hood​

The 24 words encode the account's key directly (BIP39 entropy). The key is stored beside Osaurus's data in %LOCALAPPDATA%\osaurus, protected with Windows DPAPI, and survives Reset Osaurus… while Keep my Osaurus account is ticked. Agents' addresses are derived from it. See Identity.