Why bring your own key
Bundled AI subscriptions build a margin into every question and box you into whatever model the vendor picked. Bring-your-own-key flips that: you pay the model provider's list price directly, you choose the model per question, and switching providers is a Settings change, not a re-purchase.
Set it up in under a minute
- Get an API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI Studio, or xAI — whichever provider you already use.
- Open QueryFlow → Settings → AI Models, and paste the key in.
- Pick a default model, or leave it on Auto mode.
- Open the Ask panel (⌘L) and ask your first question.
Where the key lives
Your API key is stored locally in your Mac's keychain. QueryFlow sends requests directly from your machine to the provider you selected for that question — it isn't proxied through QueryFlow's servers, and QueryFlow doesn't see or store the contents of your questions or answers beyond what's needed to display them to you.
What it costs
Typical questions run about 2¢ each, billed by the provider at their own rate — QueryFlow adds no markup. Auto mode reduces the average further by sending exploration work (reading schema, sampling results) to a cheap, fast model and reserving a stronger model for the final answer.
Every provider, one panel
Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Grok 4.20 all work from the same Ask panel, with the same schema context, step cards, and memory — switch models mid-session without losing any of it.