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Try demoBYOK (bring your own key) lets customers of an AI product use their own API key from a provider such as OpenAI, so their usage is billed to them by the provider instead of through the product.
Normally the AI product calls providers with its own keys, pays the bill and charges users for usage. With BYOK, a user adds their own key and the provider bills them directly.
BYOK suits power users and businesses that already have provider contracts, data agreements or credits. It removes your usage risk on those accounts.
The product then charges for the software itself, such as seats, features or a flat plan, rather than for usage.
Aikeedo can let workspaces add their own OpenAI and Anthropic keys. When a workspace uses its own key, requests to that provider skip credit deduction.
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An API key is a secret token that identifies and authorises an app when it calls a service such as an AI provider; whoever holds the key is billed for its usage.
AI credits are a unit an AI SaaS sells to its own users and converts to tokens, images or seconds of audio at rates it sets, as opposed to the tokens AI providers bill by.
Usage-based pricing charges customers by how much they use a product, such as messages, credits or minutes, rather than only a fixed fee per seat or per month.