Sharing keys is not allowed. This is from an OpenAI Staff Member.
I understand your need to reduce costs. A better approach is to just charge the user per token and rework your payment structure. Maybe $5 for the first [Insert profitable token count here] tokens. $1 dollar per [Insert profitable token count here] after that.
It’s better for multiple reasons.
- The user never has to worry about key security.
- The user never has to track how many tokens they are using via OpenAI
- The user has 1 point of sales to worry about.
- If there are billing issues, you, not OpenAI, are in control of it.
- The user will never be able to blame your app for leaking.
- You won’t get banned.
- More users will have access to the service
- A simpler route to purchase is always more effective than convoluted.
- You, not OpenAI, has full quality control.
You’re product is not that complicated so it will undoubtedly be cloned. You’ll need to make the best experience to onboard people as quickly as possible.
Good luck.