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Your key, your quota, your terms.

The free lane is a small daily allowance on our bill. Your own key removes the cap and, more importantly, moves the data relationship to you: your text goes to your provider under your agreement, not ours.

Option A: a Google AI key

  1. Create the key. Sign in at aistudio.google.com/app/apikey and press "Create API key". The free tier is enough to try; a billed project gives you real headroom. Mind that the provider's free tier may use submitted text for training, under their terms.
  2. Open the key panel. In the tool, press Use your own key, keep the provider on Google AI, and paste the key. The model field is optional; it defaults to gemini-2.5-flash.
  3. Press "Use this key". The button now reads Using your key, and every rewrite rides your quota with no daily cap from us.

Option B: an Anthropic key, frontier-quality English

  1. Create the key. Sign in at console.anthropic.com and create an API key under Settings. This is a billed account: you pay Anthropic per token, at your own cost and under your own terms.
  2. Open the key panel. Press Use your own key, choose Anthropic as the provider, and paste the key. The model field defaults to claude-opus-4-8; any current model name your account can access works.
  3. Press "Use this key". Rewrites now run on a frontier model. This is the strongest English quality available in Offbeat; our hosted lane's English ceiling does not apply to your key.

Option C: any OpenAI-compatible endpoint

  1. Pick the endpoint. Choose OpenAI-compatible as the provider and set the base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1 for OpenAI itself, or any compatible server, including a local one.
  2. Paste key and model. Use whatever model name your endpoint expects, for example gpt-4o-mini.
  3. Save. Same behavior: your requests, your quota, your terms.

What happens to the key

If it does not work