BYOAIK (Bring Your Own AI Key) is a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.

Find AI tools powered by your own AI key

BYOAIK is the trusted directory of 201 AI tools and apps you can run with your own API key, a local model, or a self-hosted setup. Every listing documents which providers it accepts, how it stores and transmits your key, its pricing and license, and a 0-100 trust score. No AI markup: you pay the model provider directly.

Featured & recently added

  • Agentic Ledger ✓: Local-first flight recorder for AI agents: every call, tool use, and dollar captured by a transparent proxy on your own key.
  • Granth ✓: Local-first writing studio for fiction and nonfiction books: plain-Markdown manuscripts with whole-book AI on your own key.
  • Browser Use: Point any model at a real browser and let it click, on a key and an endpoint you choose.
  • Unsloth: Fine-tune open models on your own GPU, with the training data and the weights never leaving it.
  • LlamaFactory: Fine-tune a hundred-plus open models from a local web UI, no key and no cloud step.
  • TRL: Hugging Face's reference library for SFT, DPO and GRPO, run wherever you run Python.
  • Axolotl: YAML-configured fine-tuning built for multi-GPU runs you can reproduce and audit.
  • Agent Browser: Vercel Labs' Rust CLI giving an agent direct browser control from the terminal.

Best in class, by category

  • DeerFlow: Agent Frameworks: ByteDance's open-source super-agent harness for deep research, coding, and content, with bring-your-own-key LLMs.
  • avante.nvim: Coding Assistants: Use your Neovim like Cursor AI IDE, with diff-reviewed AI code edits.
  • manga-image-translator: Productivity Tools: One-click OCR and translation of text baked into manga, comics, and images, with your own LLM/MT provider keys.
  • Hugging Face Chat UI: AI Chat Interfaces: Open-source SvelteKit chat interface powering HuggingChat, self-hostable against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own API key.
  • GPT Researcher: Research Tools: Autonomous agent that runs deep multi-source web research and writes cited reports using your own LLM provider.
  • AppFlowy AI: Writing Tools: Open-source Notion alternative with AI you control via local Ollama or your own keys
  • OpenWhispr: Voice and Transcription Tools: Privacy-first voice-to-text dictation with local Whisper/Parakeet and bring-your-own-key cloud AI.
  • ComfyUI: Image Generation Tools: Node-based diffusion studio that runs image and video models on your own hardware and your own weights: no cloud key at all.
  • RamaLama: Local AI Tools: Runs local models inside rootless containers with no network access by default: auto-detects your GPU, needs no key.
  • Agent Desk: Enterprise AI Tools: Self-hosted AI customer support desk with human handoff, on OpenAI-compatible model access you configure.
  • promptfoo: Prompt Engineering Tools: CLI and library for testing, comparing and red-teaming prompts across providers on your own keys.

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