BYOAIK — Bring Your Own AI Key: a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.

Terminal & CLI AI Tools

Bring-your-own-key AI that lives in your terminal.

• OpenCode — Open-source, provider-agnostic AI coding agent built for the terminal.
• Cline — Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with bring-your-own-key model support.
• Aider — AI pair programming in your terminal, editing code in your local git repo.
• Goose — Block's open-source, extensible AI agent for the CLI and desktop that installs, runs, edits, and tests code with any LLM you bring.
• OpenHands — Open-source autonomous AI software-engineering agent that runs on any LLM you supply.
• LLM — CLI tool and Python library for accessing many LLMs with your own API keys
• Fabric — Open-source CLI framework for augmenting humans with AI via reusable, crowdsourced prompt "patterns."
• Crush — Glamourous terminal-native agentic coding agent that works with any LLM via your own API key.
• OpenAI Codex CLI — Open-source terminal coding agent that edits files and runs commands in a sandbox.
• DeerFlow — ByteDance's open-source super-agent harness for deep research, coding, and content, with bring-your-own-key LLMs.
• Jan — Open-source local-first desktop AI assistant that runs models offline or via your own cloud provider keys.
• Kilo Code — Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with zero-markup BYOK