Models
Models are the engines behind what Endless makes — how to think about picking one, and what decides which ones you can use.
A model is the engine that actually makes something: the image model that renders your prompt, the video model that turns a scene into a clip, the chat model that writes the copy. Endless doesn't have one — it has a catalog, and you pick the one that suits the job.
This page deliberately doesn't list the models. A model is added, repriced or retired without a new version of the app, so any list written here would start going stale the day it was published. Your live list is the model picker wherever you generate. People who can view workspace governance — admins, by default — also get the whole catalog with its costs under Settings → Governance → Models.
How to choose one
You don't need to know how a model works to pick well. Three things separate them:
What it makes
Some models make images, some make video, some make audio, some write. The picker only ever offers you models that fit what you're doing.
What it's good at
Within a kind, models differ — one is better at text inside an image, another at photographic realism, another at editing a picture you already have. The picker shows each model's name and provider.
What it costs
Costs range from a credit or two to several hundred for one run. This is the difference that actually bites, so check it before you commit.
Each model's controls come from the model itself, so switching model changes the settings available to you. That's expected — a model that supports a reference image offers one, and a model that doesn't, doesn't.
Different models, very different prices
The catalog spans a wide range. The composer shows the cost of the exact run you've set up before you send it, and the governance page — if you can open it — lists every model's cost per run in credits.
Some models don't have a fixed price and show "Varies" instead. The governance page explains why: "This model is priced by the size or length of its inputs, so it has no fixed per-output rate. The exact cost is calculated from the real inputs at each run." Feeding it a longer clip or a bigger image costs more. The composer still shows you the real number once your inputs are in place.
Why you might not be able to use a model
Two different things get confused here, and the picker tells them apart for you: a model you can see but not pick, and a model that isn't there at all.
You can see it, you just can't pick it
Some models need a paid plan. Those stay in the picker — dimmed, unselectable, with a lock and the name of the plan they need. Selecting one takes you to billing instead of switching model, so nothing is generated and nothing is charged. Your plan never hides a model from the picker; it only tells you what it would take to run it.
It isn't in the list at all
A model the workspace turned off genuinely disappears — from the pickers, from @ mentions and
from what the chat can reach — and the block is enforced when the run is requested, not just in
the interface. Anyone who can change workspace governance settings can restrict the catalog,
described in the app as: "Choose which AI models are available, for the whole workspace, a
team, or one person. Turning a model off hides it from every generator and stops new spend."
Whole surfaces can go the same way. Image generation, video generation and the model picker itself are features a workspace can turn off entirely. If the surface is missing rather than the model, that's why.
How workspace restrictions stack
Restrictions are set at three scopes — Workspace, Team and Person — and they only ever narrow. Of the workspace scope the app says "The default for everyone in the workspace." Of the two narrower ones: "Rules on top of the workspace default. Anything turned off for the workspace stays off here."
You can't grant back at a narrower scope what the workspace took away. A model off for the workspace is off for every team and every person in it.
Two catalogs, one page
For the people who can open it, Settings → Governance → Models has a Media tab and a Chat tab, because they're genuinely different things:
Media models
Make images, video and audio. You pick one per generation, and it's charged per run.
Chat models
Power the conversation itself — reading, reasoning, writing, using tools.
Both are governed the same way, from the same page, by the same people.