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Use your own OpenAI or Anthropic key for your AI agent

Add your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key in Studio and pick that provider's models for your agent, listed separately from the models included in your plan.

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

· 3 min read

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Every plan · BYOK

Every plan includes GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5, and for most businesses that's all they need. Some teams want something else: a model their company has already standardised on, or usage that runs through an account they already have with OpenAI or Anthropic. Now you can bring your own API key and choose that provider's models for your AI agent.

What's new

  • Add your own key for OpenAI or Anthropic. An Owner or Admin pastes the key once on the AI Models page, and it's available across your workspace.
  • Your key's models show up in the model picker. Once a key is added, the picker splits into two labelled groups: Free for the models included in your plan, and a group per provider marked "your key" (for example "OpenAI · your key"). Two models can share a name, so the label tells you which one runs on your account.
  • Control which models your team can pick. For each provider you can allow all of its models or restrict the list to the ones you choose.
  • Teammates without admin access see a hint. If someone can't add keys, the picker suggests they ask an admin to add more models.

How to use it

  1. Open AI Models in Studio. You need to be an Owner or Admin.
  2. Find OpenAI or Anthropic and click Set Up.
  3. Paste your key into API Key and click Save. The provider shows Enabled. The dialog links to the provider's own page where you create keys.
  4. Optional: open the provider's menu and choose Restrict Models to pick which models are allowed, or Allow All Models to undo a restriction.
  5. Open your chatbot, go to the Behaviour tab, and choose a model from your provider's group in the model picker. Test it, then publish.

Good to know

  • OpenAI and Anthropic only. Those are the two providers you can add a key for.
  • Available on every plan. Bringing your own key isn't limited to Pro or Max.
  • You pay the provider directly for what your key uses, on the terms of your own account with them.
  • The included models stay available. Adding a key doesn't replace GPT-6 Luna or Claude Haiku 5.5. You choose per chatbot.
  • You can change or remove a key at any time with Edit Key or Revoke on the same page. A chatbot set to one of that key's models needs a key in place to answer, so switch it back to an included model before you revoke.
  • Keys are entered by Owners and Admins only, and the AI Models page manages them for the whole workspace.

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