How to Find your OpenAI API key for ChatGPT

Every OpenAI account has a security API Key that can be used to integrate third party tools and access OpenAI API's like ChatGPT Chat Completions API. With this API key, you can integrate a variety of OpenAI models and services, including:

  • ChatGPT – Create intelligent, conversational AI chatbots and virtual assistants powered by natural language understanding
  • DALLE – Generate stunning AI images and artwork from detailed text descriptions
  • Whisper – Accurately transcribe and translate multilingual audio with OpenAI’s advanced speech recognition model
  • Sora – Produce realistic AI-generated video clips from simple natural language prompts, ideal for storytelling and content creation
  • Codex – Power code generation and assistance with natural language to code capabilities across multiple programming languages
  • Embeddings API – Enable semantic search, clustering, and recommendation systems with vectorized text representations
  • Moderation API – Detect and filter unsafe, harmful, or policy-violating content in your applications

OpenAI helps businesses, developers, and creators build AI-powered solutions like chat, image, audio, video, code, and content safety—supported by a single secure API key.

How to Find your Secret API Key in your OpenAI Account

First sign in or sign up for your OpenAI account.  You can find sign up and login link here: https://platform.openai.com/

OpenAI Create your account

Once logged in, click on your profile name or Icon to open the menu.

Then select the 'View API Keys' option as highlighted in the screenshot below.

View OpenAI Keys

On the API Keys page, you will see a list of existing Secret Keys.  Just select 'Create new secret key' to generate a new key

to use your your client integrations like when you want to sue ChatGPT into your Live Chat chatbots.

Then click the green icon on the popup page to copy your OpenAI secret key to a safe place.

Find your OpenAI API Key

ChatGPT Login Issues?

If you're experiencing issues logging into or setting up ChatGPT, make sure you have follow these OpenAI login troubleshooting tips.

Want to enable ChatGPT on your own website?

Use your OpenAI Key in Live Chat powered by ChatGPT.