# OpenAI's "bring your own key" policy

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/openais-bring-your-own-key-policy/14538>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/openais-bring-your-own-key-policy/14538 "2022-01-13T20:04:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ishant.singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/ishant.singh/32/1016_2.png) [@ishant.singh](https://community.openai.com/u/ishant.singh)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/openais-bring-your-own-key-policy/14538/2 "2022-01-13T22:43:53Z")

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Thanks for checking. For security purposes, users are not permitted to share their API keys with others, including via bring-your-own-key applications.

We will work to make this clearer in our documentation; we are also considering technical solutions that may allow users to authenticate with a service without sharing their actual API key.

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