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By connecting your own provider API key — a practice known as Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) — every model call ParleHub makes on your behalf runs under your own provider agreement, consumes your own rate limits, and appears on your provider invoice. This keeps your firm’s AI usage cleanly separated from any other organization’s activity, gives you full visibility into costs, and ensures you remain in control of which models your team can access.

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Connecting a Provider

Only org admins can add or modify provider connections. Before you begin, make sure you have your API key ready from your provider’s console.
1

Open Model Providers settings

Navigate to Settings → Model Providers in your ParleHub org dashboard.
2

Click Connect

Find the provider you want to add and click Connect next to its name.
3

Paste your API key

Enter the API key from your provider console into the key field. See the tabs below for where to find your key for each provider.
4

Select models to enable

Choose which specific models from that provider you want to make available to your org. You can always adjust this selection later.
5

Save and validate

Click Save. ParleHub immediately validates the key by making a test call to the provider. If validation fails, double-check that the key is correct and has the necessary permissions.

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Where to Find Your API Key

Log in to console.anthropic.com and go to API Keys in the left sidebar. Click Create Key, give it a descriptive name (e.g., parlehub-prod), and copy the key before closing the dialog — Anthropic only shows the full key once.

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What Happens to Your Key

After you save a provider connection, ParleHub stores your API key encrypted at the org level. The key is never displayed again in the UI — only a masked placeholder appears in settings to confirm a key has been saved. The key is used solely to forward API requests on your behalf; it is not shared with other organizations or used for any other purpose.
Only org admins can add or remove provider connections. Project admins and members cannot view, copy, or modify API keys in any part of the interface.
You can connect multiple providers at the same time. Once connected, all enabled models across all your providers become available for org admins to assign to individual projects — and project members can then choose from whichever models have been enabled for their project.