How to Create an OpenAI API Key & Set Up Billing (Full Step-by-Step Guide)

0:00 Hey there, Annie here. Welcome to this step-by-step tutorial on setting up your OpenAI API account. Today, we will walk through one, creating your account. Two, setting up billing. Three, creating an API key. Four, getting your organization ID. Let's get started. First, let's create your account. Open your web browser and navigate to platform.openai.com. On the right side of the screen, you'll see two options. Click login if you already have an account on platform.openai.com. If you don't have an account, click sign up. If you have a Gmail account, I recommend choosing continue with Google. Once you select it, you'll be authenticated directly via your Google account. No need to manually type in your first name, last name, or email. When you're inside the platform, go to the search bar on the left side of the screen, type API key and press enter.

0:55 As you can see here, I already have an API key set up. If this is your first time, click create new secret key on the left side. Give your key a name, select default project under project, and then click create secret key. Your key will now be generated. Make sure you copy it right away because you won't be able to see it again later. Also, remember, this is sensitive information. Do not share your API key publicly. If you're a new user, you'll also need to add your payment details before you can use the API. In this step, I will help you to add a billing account, and for doing it, you will go to the search button, and you will type billing overview. And here, you will click on payment methods, add payment method, and you will add information about your credit card or debit card, and after that, you will do add payment method.

1:42 You can see that I have already added my payment method, and after that, you will go to overview and define how much money you want ChatGPT to take from your billing account. And if you're clicking on edit budget, you can define the limit for you. You can even create alerts. In my case, as soon as it will use $8, then I will get an alert sent to my email. In this section, I will show you how to get your organization ID. You will go to general on the left side of the screen, and then under general, you can see organization ID and copy-paste your own organization ID. And that's it. You now have your OpenAI API account fully set up. I'd love to hear from you. Drop a comment below telling me what tutorial you'd like to see next. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.