BYOK: Bring Your Own Key

Celune supports Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) — the ability to route AI model calls through your own Anthropic or OpenAI account instead of Celune's managed access.

Why Use BYOK?

There are a few reasons to connect your own provider keys:

Billing control — Inference costs hit your provider account directly, separate from your Celune subscription.
Compliance — Some organizations require all AI API calls to go through credentials they control.
Usage caps — Apply your own rate limits and spend caps at the provider level.
Existing contracts — Teams with enterprise agreements with Anthropic or OpenAI can route through those contracts.

Supported Providers

| Provider | Available Models | | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | Anthropic | claude-opus-4-6, claude-sonnet-4-6, claude-haiku-4-5 | | OpenAI | gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, o1, o3-mini (coming soon) |

Adding a Provider Key

Open the Celune dashboard and go to Settings → Integrations → AI Providers.
Click Add Provider Key.
Select the provider: Anthropic or OpenAI.
Paste your API key from the provider's dashboard.
Click Save.

Once saved, Celune routes all agent model inference through your key for this workspace.

Your key is encrypted at rest. Celune does not expose the plaintext key in any API response or dashboard view after it has been saved. If you need to rotate it, delete the existing entry and add a new key.

How BYOK Affects Billing

BYOK does not change your Celune subscription. You are still billed by Celune for platform access (agents, tasks, workspaces, memory) at your plan rate.

Model inference costs — the actual token usage for each agent response — are billed separately by the provider (Anthropic or OpenAI) to your account there.

Without BYOK, inference costs are included in Celune's managed access. With BYOK, those costs move to your provider account instead.

Getting Provider API Keys

Anthropic

Go to console.anthropic.com.
Navigate to API Keys in the left sidebar.
Click Create Key.
Copy the key — it is shown only once.

OpenAI

Go to platform.openai.com/api-keys.
Click Create new secret key.
Give it a name and click Create secret key.
Copy the key — it is shown only once.

Removing a Provider Key

To stop using BYOK and return to Celune's managed inference:

Go to Settings → Integrations → AI Providers.
Click the trash icon next to the provider you want to remove.
Confirm the deletion.

Model calls will route through Celune's managed access on the next agent request.

Plan Availability

BYOK is available on Pro, Team, and Enterprise plans. It is not available on the Spark (free) tier.

API Keys — Celune platform API keys for MCP, CI/CD, and integrations.
Agent Lead — How to configure which model your Agent Lead uses.
Billing & Plans — Plan tiers and what's included at each level.