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Bring Your Own API Keys
We're excited to finally announce BYOK for general access. It's a powerful new way to use OpenRouter while leveraging your existing API keys and credits from major providers.
🚀 Key Benefits
- Higher Rate Limits: Combine your provider limits with OpenRouter's for increased throughput. Works with free models now as well!
- Use 3rd Party Credits: Make the most of your existing credits from OpenAI, Google Cloud, AWS, and dozens of other platforms
- Unified Analytics: Track all your LLM usage in one place through our Activity dashboard
BYOK is available for 5% of the upstream provider's cost, while giving you all the other benefits of OpenRouter.
Ready to get started? Head to Settings to add your keys.