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Zinn® SEO how-to: Choose your own AI key or Zinn® credits

Step by step in Zinn® SEO: Use your own key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and others, or pay as you go with Zinn® credits.

Choose your own AI key or Zinn® credits

Use your own key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and others, or pay as you go with Zinn® credits.

  1. Open Settings and costs — Go to SEO, AI, Settings and costs.
  2. Choose how AI is paid for — Under Pay with, choose Automatic, My own AI key only, or Zinn® credits only.
  3. Add your key, or connect — Press Add a key for your own provider; you pay them directly and Zinn® charges nothing. Or press Connect to Zinn® and pay only for what you use.
  4. See what AI has cost — What AI has cost this month shows requests and cost on credits and on your key. AI never changes your site on its own.

With a screenshot of every step: https://zinnseo.com/kb/choose-your-own-ai-key-or-zinn-credits

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