You pay Pollinations directly with your own API key — no marginal cost from us.
Free Quest Pollen is used first. You can cap or revoke the key any time.
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You'll be sent to Pollinations to approve access, then bounced right back. On that screen, scroll down inside the card to reach the “Authorize” button. Your key never passes through our servers unencrypted.
Can’t reach the Authorize button? Paste your API key instead — no popup, no scrolling.
Create one at enter.pollinations.ai/keys and paste the secret API key — the one beginning sk_. Stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM); never shown again.
Not a publishable app key (pk_…): those only identify an app and cannot generate images or video, so every render would silently fall back to stock photos.
How it works
Connect once — your key is encrypted at rest.
Create videos from the studio; generations run on your Pollen (Quest-first).
Set spend limits or revoke access at enter.pollinations.ai/keys whenever you like.
Using the Connect with Pollinations button above always issues the right kind of key, so it is the safest route.
