BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)
BYOK stands for Bring Your Own Key. It means you provide your own API key for AI model access rather than using a key managed by the application. Your API usage is billed directly to your account with the provider.
How It Works
In the BYOK model, you bring your own API key and your model usage is billed to your provider account. You create an account with a provider (for example, OpenRouter), generate an API key, and paste it into app settings. API requests are still routed through the app service layer for request forwarding, but model usage remains tied to your own provider billing.
BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) in Chapeta
Chapeta supports BYOK through OpenRouter. Requests are routed through Chapeta's API proxy to OpenRouter and then to the selected provider. Conversations are stored locally on your Mac, and Chapeta adds no markup to model usage.
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OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a unified API gateway that provides access to hundreds of AI models from different providers through a single API endpoint.
LLM (Large Language Model)
A Large Language Model (LLM) is an AI system trained on massive text datasets that can understand and generate human language.
AI Agent
An AI agent is an AI system that can take actions in the real world, not just generate text.
API Key
An API key is a unique string of characters that authenticates your identity when making requests to a web API.
Context Window
A context window is the maximum amount of text (measured in tokens) that an AI model can process in a single request.
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the practice of crafting input text (prompts) to get the best possible output from AI models.
Token
A token is the basic unit of text that AI models process.
Fine-Tuning
Fine-tuning is the process of further training a pre-trained AI model on a specific dataset to specialize it for a particular task or domain.