{"id":153,"date":"2026-10-14T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/uncategorized\/your-own-api-key\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:49:46","slug":"your-own-api-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/latw-cloud\/your-own-api-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Your Own API Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

Available from the Solo<\/strong> plan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Instead of paying with LATW Credits, a site can translate on your own API key. The AI provider
\nbills you directly, at its own prices and under your own rate limits, and nothing is taken from your
\nCredits balance. What you pay LATW is the plan.<\/p>\n

At the moment the only provider is OpenAI<\/strong>. Claude and Gemini are coming soon.<\/p>\n

Adding a key<\/h2>\n
    \n
  1. Create a key in your OpenAI account:
    \nhttps:\/\/platform.openai.com\/api-keys<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. In the panel, open API keys<\/strong> and press Add key<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Give it a Label<\/strong> you will recognise \u2014 for example the client it belongs to \u2014 choose the
    \nProvider<\/strong> and paste the API key<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keys are encrypted and decrypted only by the translation service. After saving, the panel
    \nshows only the label and the last four characters; the key itself cannot be read back.<\/p>\n

    You can add several keys, one per client for example, and give each site a different one.<\/p>\n

    Using a key on a site<\/h2>\n

    Open the site’s Settings<\/strong>, choose Your key<\/strong> under AI source<\/strong> and pick the key in the field
    \nbelow it. Every job on the site then uses that key \u2014 including jobs started in WordPress.<\/p>\n

    For a single job, the New job<\/em> window lets you choose LATW Credits<\/strong> or Your key<\/strong> whatever the
    \nsite’s default is. Your key<\/strong> is offered only when the site has a key picked in its Settings<\/strong> \u2014
    \nthe job uses that key.<\/p>\n

    What it costs<\/h2>\n
      \n
    • The provider’s price, not LATW’s.<\/strong> OpenAI bills your key for every request, including the
      \nretries LATW Cloud makes when an answer comes back broken.<\/li>\n
    • No estimate in dollars.<\/strong> The New job<\/em> window counts the words, but the cost is up to your
      \nprovider.<\/li>\n
    • The panel shows an approximation.<\/strong> Each job, and each key under API keys<\/strong>, shows what this
      \nmonth’s usage would cost at the provider’s list prices, worked out from the tokens. Your
      \nprovider’s invoice is the final figure.<\/li>\n
    • Batch mode<\/strong> halves the provider’s price on your key too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Budget limits apply to jobs on your own key as well, counted on this approximate cost and
      \nseparately from what you spend in LATW Credits \u2014 see Site Settings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

      Editing and deleting a key<\/h2>\n

      Edit<\/strong> changes the label or replaces the key \u2014 leave the key field empty to keep the current one.<\/p>\n

      Delete<\/strong> removes it for good. API keys<\/strong> shows which sites use each key; check them before
      \ndeleting, since a site needs another key or LATW Credits to keep translating.<\/p>\n

      When your plan ends<\/h2>\n

      Your keys stay saved but cannot be used, and sites set to Your key<\/strong> translate with LATW Credits
      \ninstead. See Plans<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Available from the Solo plan. Instead of paying with LATW Credits, a site can translate on your own API key. The AI provider bills you directly,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_latwm_translated_slug":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latw-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.latw.ai\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}