Riven Chat
Riven Chat is the conversational workspace at rivenai.io — ask anything and get an answer grounded in live web sources, with citations you can check. Behind the ask box is a full reasoning workspace: uploads, branching conversations, artifacts, plugins, and fine-grained model control.
Cited answers, grounded in the live web
When a question needs current information, Chat searches the web as part of answering and cites its sources inline. Follow-up questions keep the thread’s context, so you can drill into any claim without re-explaining what you’re working on.
Choose your model — and how hard it thinks
The model picker lets you switch models mid-conversation. Beyond picking a model, you can tune its reasoning effort per conversation — lighter for quick lookups, deeper for hard problems. Which models are available depends on your plan tier; the full roster with tier gating is in the model catalog.
Upload files into the conversation
Attach documents and images directly in the composer. Uploaded files become part of the conversation’s context, so you can ask questions about a report, compare it against something on the web, or carry it through follow-ups.
Branch any conversation
Any turn can become a fork. Branching lets you explore two directions from the same starting point — try a different framing, a different model, or a different reasoning depth — without losing the original thread.
Artifacts: work on documents in-thread
When a conversation produces something worth keeping — a document, a plan, code — Chat opens it as an artifact beside the thread. Artifacts support inline editing with change tracking, so you iterate on the output itself rather than scrolling back through messages.
Plugins and tools
Chat supports first-party plugins and open tool integrations, so the assistant can act — not just answer. Tools are configured per-agent in settings; the defaults include search and personal memory, which lets the assistant remember durable facts you’ve shared across conversations.
Track your usage
Your plan balance lives in Settings → Stats: current plan, usage this period, and an upgrade path when you need more headroom. Plan details and pricing are at rivenai.io/pricing — see also Billing & plans.
Chat vs. the API
| Riven Chat | Riven API | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Interactive use — research, drafting, analysis | Building your own product or integration |
| Interface | Hosted web app at rivenai.io | HTTP endpoint, OpenAI-compatible |
| Auth | Your Riven account (guest mode available) | API key (rvn_…) — see Authentication |
| Where | rivenai.io | api.rivenai.io — see API reference |
Next steps
- Riven Computer — when a question is really a task, hand the whole thing off.
- Getting started — make your first API call.
- Troubleshooting — if something isn’t working.