diff --git a/packages/components/credentials/LocalAIApi.credential.ts b/packages/components/credentials/LocalAIApi.credential.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4aafe040d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/components/credentials/LocalAIApi.credential.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { INodeParams, INodeCredential } from '../src/Interface'
+
+class LocalAIApi implements INodeCredential {
+    label: string
+    name: string
+    version: number
+    inputs: INodeParams[]
+
+    constructor() {
+        this.label = 'LocalAI API'
+        this.name = 'localAIApi'
+        this.version = 1.0
+        this.inputs = [
+            {
+                label: 'LocalAI Api Key',
+                name: 'localAIApiKey',
+                type: 'password'
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+}
+
+module.exports = { credClass: LocalAIApi }
diff --git a/packages/components/nodes/chatmodels/ChatLocalAI/ChatLocalAI.ts b/packages/components/nodes/chatmodels/ChatLocalAI/ChatLocalAI.ts
index 18ed409bf..f2825d0d3 100644
--- a/packages/components/nodes/chatmodels/ChatLocalAI/ChatLocalAI.ts
+++ b/packages/components/nodes/chatmodels/ChatLocalAI/ChatLocalAI.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { INode, INodeData, INodeParams } from '../../../src/Interface'
-import { getBaseClasses } from '../../../src/utils'
+import { ICommonObject, INode, INodeData, INodeParams } from '../../../src/Interface'
+import { getBaseClasses, getCredentialData, getCredentialParam } from '../../../src/utils'
 import { OpenAIChat } from 'langchain/llms/openai'
 import { OpenAIChatInput } from 'langchain/chat_models/openai'
 import { BaseCache } from 'langchain/schema'
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ class ChatLocalAI_ChatModels implements INode {
     category: string
     description: string
     baseClasses: string[]
+    credential: INodeParams
     inputs: INodeParams[]
 
     constructor() {
@@ -25,6 +26,13 @@ class ChatLocalAI_ChatModels implements INode {
         this.category = 'Chat Models'
         this.description = 'Use local LLMs like llama.cpp, gpt4all using LocalAI'
         this.baseClasses = [this.type, 'BaseChatModel', ...getBaseClasses(OpenAIChat)]
+        this.credential = {
+            label: 'Connect Credential',
+            name: 'credential',
+            type: 'credential',
+            credentialNames: ['localAIApi'],
+            optional: true
+        }
         this.inputs = [
             {
                 label: 'Cache',
@@ -79,13 +87,16 @@ class ChatLocalAI_ChatModels implements INode {
         ]
     }
 
-    async init(nodeData: INodeData): Promise<any> {
+    async init(nodeData: INodeData, _: string, options: ICommonObject): Promise<any> {
         const temperature = nodeData.inputs?.temperature as string
         const modelName = nodeData.inputs?.modelName as string
         const maxTokens = nodeData.inputs?.maxTokens as string
         const topP = nodeData.inputs?.topP as string
         const timeout = nodeData.inputs?.timeout as string
         const basePath = nodeData.inputs?.basePath as string
+        const credentialData = await getCredentialData(nodeData.credential ?? '', options)
+        const localAIApiKey = getCredentialParam('localAIApiKey', credentialData, nodeData)
+
         const cache = nodeData.inputs?.cache as BaseCache
 
         const obj: Partial<OpenAIChatInput> & BaseLLMParams & { openAIApiKey?: string } = {
@@ -98,6 +109,7 @@ class ChatLocalAI_ChatModels implements INode {
         if (topP) obj.topP = parseFloat(topP)
         if (timeout) obj.timeout = parseInt(timeout, 10)
         if (cache) obj.cache = cache
+        if (localAIApiKey) obj.openAIApiKey = localAIApiKey
 
         const model = new OpenAIChat(obj, { basePath })
 
diff --git a/packages/components/nodes/embeddings/LocalAIEmbedding/LocalAIEmbedding.ts b/packages/components/nodes/embeddings/LocalAIEmbedding/LocalAIEmbedding.ts
index 557e35d68..24efaf8c6 100644
--- a/packages/components/nodes/embeddings/LocalAIEmbedding/LocalAIEmbedding.ts
+++ b/packages/components/nodes/embeddings/LocalAIEmbedding/LocalAIEmbedding.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { INode, INodeData, INodeParams } from '../../../src/Interface'
+import { ICommonObject, INode, INodeData, INodeParams } from '../../../src/Interface'
+import { getCredentialData, getCredentialParam } from '../../../src/utils'
 import { OpenAIEmbeddings, OpenAIEmbeddingsParams } from 'langchain/embeddings/openai'
 
 class LocalAIEmbedding_Embeddings implements INode {
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ class LocalAIEmbedding_Embeddings implements INode {
     category: string
     description: string
     baseClasses: string[]
+    credential: INodeParams
     inputs: INodeParams[]
 
     constructor() {
@@ -21,6 +23,13 @@ class LocalAIEmbedding_Embeddings implements INode {
         this.category = 'Embeddings'
         this.description = 'Use local embeddings models like llama.cpp'
         this.baseClasses = [this.type, 'Embeddings']
+        this.credential = {
+            label: 'Connect Credential',
+            name: 'credential',
+            type: 'credential',
+            credentialNames: ['localAIApi'],
+            optional: true
+        }
         this.inputs = [
             {
                 label: 'Base Path',
@@ -37,15 +46,20 @@ class LocalAIEmbedding_Embeddings implements INode {
         ]
     }
 
-    async init(nodeData: INodeData): Promise<any> {
+    async init(nodeData: INodeData, _: string, options: ICommonObject): Promise<any> {
         const modelName = nodeData.inputs?.modelName as string
         const basePath = nodeData.inputs?.basePath as string
 
+        const credentialData = await getCredentialData(nodeData.credential ?? '', options)
+        const localAIApiKey = getCredentialParam('localAIApiKey', credentialData, nodeData)
+
         const obj: Partial<OpenAIEmbeddingsParams> & { openAIApiKey?: string } = {
             modelName,
             openAIApiKey: 'sk-'
         }
 
+        if (localAIApiKey) obj.openAIApiKey = localAIApiKey
+
         const model = new OpenAIEmbeddings(obj, { basePath })
 
         return model