Your own keys or credits?

With your own keys (BYOK), requests run on your provider accounts and the provider bills you; with credits, you prepay the gateway and it pays the providers. BYOK suits teams with provider contracts or cloud credits; credits suit teams that want one bill and every provider without separate accounts.

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Requestgpt-6-sol, 3,000 tokens

Key usedYour OpenAI key

Billed by OpenAIOn your OpenAI account

Charged by DigitSpace$0.00

Routing, failover, budgets and logs still apply.

Side by side on DigitSpace

	Your own keys	Credits
Who bills you for tokens	Each provider	DigitSpace, at provider prices
DigitSpace's charge	Nothing	5% on top-ups
Accounts you need	One per provider	None
Rate limits	Your accounts' limits, plus DigitSpace's request rate	DigitSpace's, which rise with account age and spend
Contract discounts and cloud credits	Apply	Don't apply

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Mixing both

A hybrid project uses your key where you have one and credits for everything else, so you keep your contract for your main provider and still reach every other model without new accounts.

Questions

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Is BYOK really free?

On DigitSpace, yes: routing, failover, budgets and logs on your own keys cost nothing; you pay the provider directly.

Are my keys safe?

They're encrypted with AES-256-GCM and only decrypted in the gateway to make a call.

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Create a key, change the base URL, send a request. No card needed with your own provider keys.

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