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 257 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.
  • Moshi: Full-duplex speech-to-speech conversation, running on your machine instead of a vendor's.
  • LMDeploy: Compression, quantisation and serving toolkit from the InternLM team, run on your own GPUs.
  • KServe: Kubernetes-native model serving, the piece that makes self-hosting survive production.
  • BentoML: Packages a model into a service you deploy yourself, wherever you want it to run.
  • F5-TTS: Fast local voice cloning from a short sample, with the sample never leaving your machine.
  • TensorRT-LLM: NVIDIA's inference engine for squeezing the most out of GPUs you already own.

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.
  • OpenLLM: Self-Hosted AI Platforms: One command to run an open model as your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
  • Higgs Audio: Music and Audio Generation: Expressive speech and multi-speaker dialogue generation, self-hosted.
  • OpenAI Completion (Sublime Text): IDE Plugins: Sublime Text AI assistant where you paste your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key, or point it at local Ollama.
  • Khoj: Knowledge Management: Open-source, self-hostable AI second brain that chats with your documents and the web.
  • torchtune: Fine-Tuning and Training: PyTorch-native fine-tuning recipes with no framework layer between you and the training loop.
  • PrivateGPT: Document Analysis: Privacy-first RAG app to ingest and query your documents using local or remote LLMs, fully offline-capable.

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