# Bring Your Own AI Key

> Bring your own AI key to Alfred Scholar. Connect Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or Amazon Bedrock, and your daily message limits stop applying.

Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/features/bring-your-own-key/

Bring Your Own Key

## Use your own *AI provider*.

Connect your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or Amazon Bedrock. It powers all your AI across the workspace, and while it is active, your daily message limits stop applying.

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Five providers

### Connect the provider you already use

- Anthropic Connect your own Anthropic account and key.
- OpenAI Use your existing OpenAI credits and key.
- Gemini Bring a Google Gemini key of your own.
- OpenRouter Route through OpenRouter with your key.
- Amazon Bedrock Point Alfred at your Bedrock credentials.

"Your key, your provider, your bill. Alfred just does the work."

How it behaves

### What changes when your key is active

#### One active provider at a time

Choose a single provider and it powers all your AI: chat, research tools, and the writing assists in the editor. Switch providers whenever you like; only one is active at once.

#### Your message limits stop applying

When your own key is active, the daily message caps on your plan no longer apply. You are billed by your provider for your own usage, not by us.

#### Embeddings and originality stay shared

Search indexing (embeddings) and the originality check always run on Alfred Scholar's shared engine, so those features work the same whether or not your own key is connected.

#### Owner controlled, per workspace

Only the workspace owner can add or change the key, and it applies to that workspace. Available on paid plans and during the trial.

Where to next

### Your key powers the whole workspace

Go deeper

#### Ask Alfred

Your key powers every cited answer in chat.

Compare

#### Alfred Scholar vs Anara

Pay your provider directly instead of paying per seat in USD.

What it costs

#### Plans and pricing

Pro is ₹899 a month in India and $19 elsewhere. Lab seats five. Start with a trial either way.

### Run Alfred on your own AI account.

Add a key from any of five providers and it powers your whole workspace. Available on paid plans and during the trial.

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7 days of Pro, free No card needed Afterwards, keep everything on the free plan

Prefer to read first? [Read the Docs](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/introduction/)