diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/EditorSettingsDialog.vue b/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/EditorSettingsDialog.vue
index 09fd7489d..bd2212142 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/EditorSettingsDialog.vue
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/editor/EditorSettingsDialog.vue
@@ -5540,6 +5540,12 @@ onUnmounted(cleanupPreviewEditor);
                   </div>
                 </div>
 
+                <!-- Default Model -->
+                <div v-if="!aiIsCliProvider" class="grid grid-cols-3 items-center gap-3">
+                  <Label class="text-right text-xs">{{ t("ai.defaultModel") }}</Label>
+                  <Input v-model="aiEditModel" autocomplete="off" class="col-span-2 h-8 text-xs" :placeholder="t('ai.manualModelPlaceholder')" />
+                </div>
+
                 <!-- Context Window -->
                 <div v-if="!aiIsCliProvider" class="grid grid-cols-3 items-start gap-3">
                   <Label class="text-right text-xs">{{ t("ai.contextWindow") }}</Label>
diff --git a/packages/app-tests/settingsStore.test.ts b/packages/app-tests/settingsStore.test.ts
index a08633a37..93129a79e 100644
--- a/packages/app-tests/settingsStore.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app-tests/settingsStore.test.ts
@@ -548,6 +548,15 @@ test("AI provider presets include common hosted and local providers", () => {
   assert.ok(Object.keys(AI_PROVIDER_PRESETS).indexOf("codex-cli") < Object.keys(AI_PROVIDER_PRESETS).indexOf("pi-agent-cli"));
 });
 
+test("API AI provider settings expose and persist a default model ID", () => {
+  const source = readFileSync("apps/desktop/src/components/editor/EditorSettingsDialog.vue", "utf8");
+  const modelControl = source.indexOf('<Input v-model="aiEditModel"');
+
+  assert.ok(modelControl >= 0);
+  assert.match(source.slice(modelControl - 300, modelControl + 300), /v-if="!aiIsCliProvider"[\s\S]*t\("ai\.defaultModel"\)[\s\S]*t\('ai\.manualModelPlaceholder'\)/);
+  assert.match(source, /model:\s*aiEditModel\.value/);
+});
+
 test("normalizes legacy AI config and fills provider defaults", () => {
   const legacy = normalizeAiConfig({
     provider: "openai",