BYOAIK (Bring Your Own AI Key) is 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