Hi there,

AI settings in Abyssale used to be a single on/off switch: AI features were either available to a workspace or they weren't.

That's still true, but it's no longer the whole picture. Administrators can now go a level deeper and control which specific AI models their team is allowed to use for each AI feature, and set which one is used by default.

Why this exists

As Abyssale has added more AI models across features like Text-to-Image and Remove Background, teams have ended up with real decisions to make about which models they actually want in play, not because every model isn't useful, but because "useful" depends on the team. A model might be excellent and still be the wrong choice for a given workspace: too expensive to run at volume, not aligned with a client's content policy, or simply inconsistent with the quality bar the team has settled on.

Until now, there was no way to express that at the workspace level, every enabled AI feature meant every model behind it was fair game, and standardizing on one meant trusting each person to pick the right one every time.

Where to find it

The new controls live in workspace AI settings, in a Models preferences section. For each AI feature, Text to Image, Remove Background, and so on, you'll see the full list of available models, along with:
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• The model's provider (Google Gemini, OpenAI, Alibaba Cloud, and others)
• Supported resolution and aspect ratio tags
• Minimum Credit cost per generation
• A toggle to enable or disable it

Turning models "on" or "off"

Each model has a simple toggle. ON means it's available for the team to select when generating content. OFF hides it from selection entirely, team members won't be able to use it, even if their subscription plan technically includes it.

This is the mechanism for restricting usage: disable anything that doesn't meet your organization's cost, quality, or compliance bar, and it disappears from the picker for everyone in the workspace.

Setting a default model

For any enabled model, the ⋯ (more options) menu includes Set model as default. That model is then pre-selected automatically whenever someone on the team starts a new AI generation, so the team defaults to whatever you've decided is the right choice, instead of relying on each person to remember and pick it manually every time.

Two rules keep this consistent: a model has to be enabled before it can be set as default, and disabling the current default forces you to choose a new one.

What this unlocks

Put together, enabling/disabling models and setting a default give admins three concrete levers:

• Compliance : keep models that don't meet internal content or data standards out of reach entirely
• Consistency : make sure the whole team defaults to one approved model instead of drifting across whichever one each person happens to pick
• Cost control : disable higher-cost models when they're not needed, without having to police usage manually after the fact

This sits alongside the existing workspace-wide AI Features Access toggle and the AI Model Training setting (which controls whether anonymized workspace data can be used to improve Abyssale's models), both still available in the same settings area, for admins who want to manage AI access at that broader level too.

→ Read the full guide: Control AI Features and Content Training in Abyssale

→ Go to workspace AI settings