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GPT, billed per use

OpenAI’s GPT models with an API key — billed per use, separately from a ChatGPT plan. Conch runs the conversation and lends it your integrations.

  • Every GPT model
  • Pay as you go
  • Uses your integrations
Connects with
A key you paste
Your apps
Conch hands it their tools
A key looks like
sk-proj-…
  • NoYour files and commands
  • YesSaves memories itself
  • YesAsks before each step
  • NoWorks offline

Worth knowing first

  • An API key is billed on its own, separately from ChatGPT. To use your ChatGPT plan, connect Codex instead.
  • Tool-capable models can use Conch’s files and connected apps. Commands need the OS sandbox and run without network access; chat-only models cannot take actions.

Connect it

  1. Open Settings → Providers and choose OpenAI.
  2. Press Open platform.openai.com and create a project key. It starts with sk-proj-.
  3. Paste it. Conch checks it before keeping it.

Or paste the key anywhere on Settings → Providers. Conch knows whose key it is from how it starts, and checks it before keeping it.

What you get

OpenAI’s GPT models, billed to your OpenAI organization per use. Conch lists the models your key can use, newest first, and leaves out the ones a chat can’t use (speech, pictures, embeddings).

Conch runs the conversation itself: it keeps the thread, hands the model the tools of your apps, and asks you before anything changes. Memory, skills and the browser all work with models that can call tools.

Good to know

  • Conch supplies the tools. Tool-capable models can use memory, connected apps and files in this conversation’s work folder, with the same permission checks and Undo tracking. Commands require the OS sandbox, cannot access the network and have no unrestricted fallback. Chat-only models are labelled in the picker. If a model turns out not to take tools, Conch asks it again without them and says so.
  • Spend is tracked. Conch records each turn, and you can set a budget. See Offline and at a limit.
  • This is not your ChatGPT plan. An API key is billed on its own. To use your ChatGPT subscription instead, connect Codex.
  • An admin key can’t chat. Keys that start sk-admin- manage an organization. Make a project key.