# Your provider keys, free

> With your own provider keys, requests run on your account with the provider and DigitSpace charges nothing for them. You keep your provider contract, rate limits and discounts, and still get routing, failover, budgets and cost tracking.

Source: https://digitspace.ai/features/bring-your-own-keys · Last checked: 2026-10-30

## Three ways to pay, per project

| Project mode | Which key is used | What DigitSpace charges |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Credits | DigitSpace's keys | 5% on credit top-ups; tokens at provider prices |
| Your own keys | Yours only | Nothing |
| Hybrid | Yours when you have one for that provider, ours otherwise | Nothing on your keys; credits for the rest |

## Keys you can add

- **Model labs:** OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek and others in the catalogue.
- **Clouds:** Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex, with their own regions and addresses.
- **Any OpenAI-compatible API:** A custom endpoint and key, including self-hosted models. Its models appear as "custom/model".

## How your keys are kept

Provider keys are encrypted before they're stored and are only decrypted inside the gateway to make the call. They're never shown again in full after you add them.

## Questions

### Why use DigitSpace at all with my own keys?

One API and key for every provider, failover between your keys and ours, budgets per key and member, and one place to see what every request cost.

### Do I need a card to use my own keys?

No. Sign up, add a provider key and send requests.

### Can my key's requests fail over to DigitSpace's keys?

In hybrid mode, yes: providers you have no key for use credits.

## Related

- [Pricing](https://digitspace.ai/pricing)
- [Budgets and access](https://digitspace.ai/features/budgets-and-access)
- [BYOK vs. credits](https://digitspace.ai/learn/byok-vs-credits)
- [API compatibility](https://digitspace.ai/features/api-compatibility)

Start free: https://digitspace.ai/signup · Docs: https://digitspace.ai/docs · Pricing: https://digitspace.ai/pricing