Bring your own key
Bring your own key (BYOK) means Endue makes model calls with your provider credentials. The provider bills you directly, and those calls do not draw on your Endue allowance.
When to use it
Section titled “When to use it”- You already have provider credit or negotiated pricing.
- Your organization requires model traffic to run under its own account for billing or audit reasons.
- You want a model that your own account has access to.
If none of those apply, the built-in allowance is simpler — there is nothing to set up and nothing to keep topped up.
Set it up
Section titled “Set it up”-
Create a key in your model provider’s dashboard.
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Open Settings → Account → LLM key in Endue and paste it.
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Check that it works by running a normal conversation and watching the run complete.
What changes and what does not
Section titled “What changes and what does not”| Changes | Stays the same |
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| Who pays for model calls | Everything about how agents behave |
| Which models you can reach — your account’s access applies | Approvals, connectors, memory, artifacts |
| Where the bill arrives | Endue’s own subscription, which still applies |
BYOK covers model calls. It does not change your Endue plan or make the product free.
If the key stops working
Section titled “If the key stops working”A revoked, expired, or out-of-credit key makes runs fail at the model step. The symptom is a run that ends with an error before the agent does any work.
Check, in order: the key is still valid at the provider, the account has credit, and the model you selected is one your account can reach.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- The key is set per account, not per agent.
- Runs fail if the key is invalid. There is no automatic fall back to Endue’s allowance.
- Provider rate limits are yours. A busy routine can hit them.
- Costs incurred under your own key are visible at the provider, not in Endue’s usage view.