Platform
Bring your own key
Add your own OpenAI key, and 3D models (generating, editing and animating them) bill to your OpenAI account instead of your AI Credits. Everything else still uses AI Credits.
It's on every paid plan. Starter doesn't include it.
Set it up#
- Make an API key in your OpenAI account.
- In Studio, open Account and find Bring Your Own Key (BYOK).
- Paste the key and save it.
- Optionally, pick the Orchestrator model that runs on it, to balance price against quality.
From then on, 3D model actions cost 0 AI Credits and show up on your OpenAI bill instead. To go back to AI Credits, remove the key.
For a Team, an admin sets the key in the Team's settings. One key covers the whole Team, and Team packs always use the Team's key, never a member's own. See Teams.
What your key actually pays for#
Your key runs the orchestration layer: the language model that plans a 3D model, decides what to build and checks the result. That's the only part of the work that runs on a standard provider, so it's the only part a key can cover.
The rest is ours. Every model goes through our own proprietary build pipeline, which we run and pay for ourselves whether or not you bring a key. So a key doesn't make a model free to make: we still carry most of the cost, and the key takes over the part that can be handed over.
Why only 3D models#
Blocks, items, icons, GUIs and the rest of the picture work come from our own image models. There's no orchestration step on a standard provider there, only proprietary models we built and host, so there's no key that could stand in for them. We'd like to offer the same for pictures, and if that changes, it will be listed here.
Your key is safe with us#
Your key is encrypted before it's stored, and it's only read at the moment a 3D model action runs on it. If a key stops working (revoked, out of funds, or your plan ends), Studio stops using it and those actions go back to AI Credits. If your plan ends, a key you stored is kept but isn't used until you're on a paid plan again.