Connect your own OpenAI API key directly to BusyBot. You keep full control of usage, billing, and quotas — and you only pay OpenAI's wholesale rate. Switch back to BusyBot's pooled key any time, no lock-in.
What's included
Pay OpenAI's wholesale rate directly. No per-token surcharge from us — your bill shows up on your OpenAI dashboard, not ours.
Your API key is encrypted in our database and only decrypted in-memory at request time. We never log it, display it, or share it.
Use OpenAI's built-in usage limits and budget alerts. BusyBot respects them — when you hit your cap, the bot pauses cleanly.
GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-5 Turbo, fine-tuned models — if your OpenAI account can call it, your BusyBot can use it.
Toggle BYOK off and you're back on our pooled key instantly. No data migration, no downtime, no support ticket.
See exact token counts and per-conversation costs in OpenAI's own dashboard — no third-party usage estimates needed.
How it works
Create a new API key in your OpenAI dashboard with a sensible monthly cap.
BusyBot stores it encrypted and starts using it for every conversation on this bot.
Usage shows up directly in OpenAI's billing dashboard. BusyBot charges you only for the platform — never the AI tokens.
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