Bring your own AI provider key
Paste an OpenRouter / Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini key; encrypted at rest; bypasses the shared house cap.
Last updated July 28, 2026 · Read as markdown
Why bring your own
The shared house AI budget is generous but capped ($30/month per house tier). If you use AI features heavily — daily briefs, agents that call AI on every trigger, Canvas widgets — a BYO key removes that ceiling and puts you on your own upstream quota.
Where to paste
Account → AI Provider. Pick the provider (OpenRouter recommended — it fronts most others), paste the key, save. Encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM (key held in Google Secret Manager).
Routing order
The cascade tries your BYO key after our free-first house pool (self-hosted → OpenRouter free tier) but before the paid house providers. So if free tiers are available, you don't spend on your key either.
Providers we support
- OpenRouter — fronts Claude, GPT, Gemini, Mistral. Recommended.
- Anthropic — direct Claude API.
- OpenAI — direct GPT API.
- Gemini — Google AI Studio.
Revoke
Delete in Account → AI Provider, or rotate the key on the provider side. We stop using it immediately.