Connect your own AI keys

Some apps on Panoply call AI models. Rather than bundling model costs into the price, those apps run on your provider key. You pay your provider directly for what you use, and the app's price stays what the creator set.

This is usually called BYOK — bring your own key.

Adding a key

Go to your account settings and add a key for the provider you use. Panoply stores it encrypted and hands it only to apps you've bought that ask for that provider.

You add a key once. Every app you own that uses that provider can then use it — you don't re-enter it per app.

What Panoply can and can't do with your key

• Your key is encrypted at rest and is never shown back to you in full after you save it.
• It is only released to apps you have purchased, and only for the provider it belongs to.
• Panoply does not use your key for its own inference.

You can remove a key at any time. Apps that depended on it will stop working until you add a new one.

What it costs to run a model

Model prices come from the providers, not from Panoply — we take no cut of your model spend. Rates change often, so here is the current picture rather than a number written into this page:

Prices are per million tokens, in USD. Use them to estimate what an app will cost you to run: a chat-style app that sends a few thousand tokens per exchange costs fractions of a cent per message on a cheap model, and meaningfully more on a frontier one.

Choosing a model

If an app lets you pick a model, the trade-off is the usual one — cheaper and faster, or slower and more capable. Start on a cheap model and move up only if the output isn't good enough. The app's listing should say which models it supports.

If you'd rather not

An app that requires a key will say so on its listing before you buy. Plenty of apps don't need one at all. See Find an app worth buying.