I’m building a Google Chrome extension that uses GPT. It will allow users to enter their own OpenAI API key in order to interact with OpenAI GPT. Does OpenAI have rules when it comes to storing APIs? Can I allow users to enter their own APIs into a Google Chrome extension?

The “official” rules are that users are not supposed to enter their API keys in your app. There is another post about this if you search the community forums. However, there are apps out there also doing this.

I think that is incorrect. Do you have a link to the official rules saying this cannot be done? OpenAI states: “Do not share your API key with others, or expose it in the browser or other client-side code. In order to protect the security of your account, OpenAI may also automatically rotate any AP…

Sure, here is the actual post from an OpenAI staff member It is also in one of their document pages. But I cant find it right now [image] OpenAI's "bring your own key" policy API Thanks for checking. For security purposes, users are not permitted to share their API keys …

Also this link (and others. If you search for “Bring Your Own Key” in the community, you will find the other references) [image] Billing question for commercial apps API Yeah, I just linked for reference. As I said in the comment, I’m not sure about the “bring-your-own-k…

Thank you for sharing the posts! This makes things more clear. I think OpenAI should definitely have an auth feature otherwise we have to implement complicated custom logins and payment systems in order to allow users to make API requests. The name is “OpenAI” but everything is built around money an…

Allowing users to add their own OpenAI API Keys - guidelines/policy?

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raymonddavey March 22, 2023, 4:10am 6

Also this link (and others. If you search for “Bring Your Own Key” in the community, you will find the other references)

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