Portable ChatUI provides a no-frills UI that allows you to interact with the OpenAI API in settings where a more portable solution is needed (say, for example, you can't install npm).
For many OpenAI customers, GPT-3.5, available for free via ChatGPT, is sufficient for many tasks. GPT-4 may be needed for more complex tasks, but that need is infrequent enough that it is not cost-effective for users to pay $20 per month for access to GPT-4 via ChatGPT. Solutions like Portable ChatUI allow users to pay only for what they use (see OpenAI API pricing).
Portable ChatUI will attempt to replicate basic ChatGPT functionality, such as saving the user's conversation history (available by manually by importing/exporting a conversation history file or using the Dropbox API). Portable ChatUI will not support other paid ChatGPT features, such as image generation, multi-modal prompts, etc.
To use Portable ChatUI, you should not need to install anything. Just open index.html in a web browser, provide your API key, link your Google Drive account to save your conversation history if you wish, and submit your prompt.
- Price calculator/estimator.
- Stream responses.
- Set other API parameters (temperature, etc.).
- Option to opt in to automatic chat naming.