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

Tools that accept your Azure OpenAI API key (93)

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Depends on the endpoint you choose Azure OpenAI is served from a per-tenant hostname you create in your own subscription, so there is no shared endpoint to probe. Region and CORS behaviour are set by your deployment.

Tools that support Azure OpenAI

  • PrivateGPT: Privacy-first RAG app to ingest and query your documents using local or remote LLMs, fully offline-capable.
  • Kotaemon: Self-hosted chat-with-your-documents RAG interface with citation highlighting, running on your own API key or a local model.
  • OpenAI Agents SDK: OpenAI's own agent framework, which also drives any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you point it at.
  • MetaGPT: Open-source multi-agent software company that turns a one-line requirement into code, using your own LLM key.
  • LightRAG: Graph-based RAG that will run end to end against a local Ollama, with no cloud key.
  • Graphiti: Temporal knowledge graph for agent memory, where facts carry the time they were true.
  • AutoGen: Microsoft's open-source multi-agent framework where every model client takes your own API key or environment variable.
  • Marker: PDF to markdown that runs its own vision models locally, with LLM boosting on your key.
  • bilingual_book_maker: CLI that translates EPUB/TXT/SRT/PDF books into bilingual editions using your own LLM key.
  • ShellGPT (sgpt): Natural-language CLI that turns prompts into shell commands, code, and answers via your own LLM key.
  • NextChat: Light and fast, self-hostable AI chat UI where you bring your own provider keys.
  • cognee: Memory for agents built as an ECL pipeline, with an Ollama path that needs no cloud key.
  • SiYuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted block-based knowledge base with built-in AI writing and Q&A via your own API key.
  • Bifrost: Self-hosted AI gateway with governance and MCP support, sitting in front of the keys you own.
  • Skyvern: Automate browser-based workflows with LLMs and computer vision instead of brittle selectors.
  • OWL (CAMEL-AI): Open-source multi-agent framework for real-world task automation, built on CAMEL-AI.
  • Guidance: Constrained prompt-programming library for steering model output structure, authenticated with your own key.
  • GraphRAG: Microsoft's graph RAG pipeline, driven by a key you place in its own config.
  • gptme: Open-source terminal AI agent that writes code, runs shell/Python, and browses the web with your own provider keys.
  • Mattermost Agents: Bring-your-own-LLM copilot for self-hosted Mattermost, including fully local models.
  • SWE-agent: Princeton NLP's terminal coding agent that resolves GitHub issues using whichever LLM key you supply.
  • DocsGPT: Self-hosted document search, chat and agents over your own files: bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or local key.
  • PowerToys Advanced Paste: Microsoft's free Windows utility transforms clipboard text with AI, on the OpenAI, Azure, Gemini, Mistral or Ollama key you configure.
  • Microsoft Prompt Flow: Microsoft's prompt engineering and evaluation toolkit, where your provider key is registered as a local connection.
  • promptfoo: CLI and library for testing, comparing and red-teaming prompts across providers on your own keys.
  • MarkItDown: Microsoft's file-to-markdown converter, with image description and OCR on a client you provide.
  • Qwen Code: Open-source terminal coding agent (Gemini-CLI fork) that runs on your own API key for any OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini-compatible endpoint.
  • Helicone: Self-hostable observability proxy for LLM calls, which means it sees the prompts it logs.
  • GPT Researcher: Autonomous agent that runs deep multi-source web research and writes cited reports using your own LLM provider.
  • BrowserOS: Open-source agentic browser that runs AI agents to automate web tasks with your own API keys.
  • LiteLLM: One OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of a hundred providers, running on keys you hold.
  • Text Generator: Template-driven AI text generation inside your Obsidian notes, using your own provider API keys.
  • Whisper (Obsidian): Obsidian speech-to-text plugin that transcribes recorded or uploaded audio via any Whisper-compatible API using your own key.
  • Supermemory: Memory API you can self-host, taking your own provider key rather than issuing one.
  • Open Notebook: Open-source, privacy-first NotebookLM alternative that chats with your sources and generates multi-speaker AI podcasts.
  • Inbox Zero: Open-source AI email assistant that automates triage, replies, and inbox cleanup.
  • Omni: Self-hosted company AI agent that works across your tools on providers you nominate.
  • OpenHands: Open-source autonomous AI software-engineering agent that runs on any LLM you supply.
  • Karakeep: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with AI tagging and full-text search
  • avante.nvim: Use your Neovim like Cursor AI IDE, with diff-reviewed AI code edits.
  • Onyx: Open-source enterprise search and AI assistant that works with every LLM and connects to your knowledge sources.
  • Jan: Open-source local-first desktop AI assistant that runs models offline or via your own cloud provider keys.
  • gptel: Simple, extensible LLM client for Emacs that works in any buffer
  • Langflow: Open-source visual builder for AI agents and RAG workflows on a node canvas.
  • Langfuse: Self-hosted LLM engineering platform: prompt management, playground and evals all run against a key you bring.
  • Chatbox: Cross-platform AI client for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models with your own keys.
  • assistant-ui: TypeScript/React component library for building production AI chat UIs wired to your own provider keys and backend.
  • BeeAI Framework: Open-source framework for building production-ready multi-agent systems in Python and TypeScript with a unified, bring-your-own-key LLM backend.
  • Crush: Glamourous terminal-native agentic coding agent that works with any LLM via your own API key.
  • Headroom: Local proxy that compresses context before it reaches the model, holding your key on your own machine.
  • Cherry Studio: All-in-one desktop AI client where you plug in your own provider keys for chat, agents, and 300+ assistants.
  • OpenAI Codex CLI: Open-source terminal coding agent that edits files and runs commands in a sandbox.
  • Windmill: Open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows, APIs, and UIs, with bring-your-own-key AI codegen.
  • Text Generator (Obsidian): Bring-your-own-key AI text generation inside Obsidian via templated prompts.
  • big-AGI: Multi-model AI workspace with Beam multi-model chat, personas, image and voice, on your own keys
  • ProxyAI: Open-source JetBrains coding assistant, formerly CodeGPT, that runs on the provider key you paste into settings.
  • org-ai: Emacs org-mode package that calls OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity or a local model using the key you set yourself.
  • 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.
  • Airi: Self-hosted, you-owned AI companion with a VRM/Live2D avatar and real-time voice chat.
  • CodeCompanion.nvim: AI coding assistant for Neovim, Vim style
  • Deep Research: Browser-based deep-research app that generates in-depth reports using any LLM, with keys stored locally in your browser.
  • AI Engine (WordPress): WordPress's most-installed AI plugin: every chatbot and content feature runs on the key you paste in.
  • Open Deep Research (LangChain): LangChain's open-source deep research agent you run with your own models and search/MCP tools.
  • Tabby: Self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant (Copilot alternative) you point at the models and providers you choose.
  • Fabric: Open-source CLI framework for augmenting humans with AI via reusable, crowdsourced prompt "patterns."
  • Letta: Open-source platform for building stateful AI agents with long-term memory
  • Pi: Minimal open-source AI agent toolkit and coding-agent CLI with a unified multi-provider LLM API, BYOK.
  • CrewAI: Open-source Python framework for orchestrating collaborative, role-playing autonomous AI agents.
  • Dify: Open-source platform for building agentic AI workflows and RAG apps with your own model keys.
  • Haystack: Open-source Python framework for building production RAG pipelines and agent workflows with any LLM provider.
  • Mastra: Open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents and graph-based workflows.
  • RAGFlow: Open-source RAG engine with deep document understanding for grounded, cited document Q&A.
  • Sim: Open-source visual builder for AI agent workflows with full bring-your-own-key support.
  • OpenAgent: Self-hostable personal assistant pairing your own RAG knowledge base with thirty-plus model providers.
  • LibreChat: Open-source, self-hosted ChatGPT alternative unifying many AI providers with agents, MCP, and RAG.
  • OpenCode: Open-source, provider-agnostic AI coding agent built for the terminal.
  • AnythingLLM: All-in-one local-first AI app for document chat (RAG) and agents, with bring-your-own-key support for nearly every LLM provider.
  • Cline: Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with bring-your-own-key model support.
  • Pot (pot-desktop): Cross-platform desktop app for selection translation and OCR, powered by your own provider keys.
  • Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal, editing code in your local git repo.
  • Kilo Code: Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with zero-markup BYOK
  • n8n: Fair-code workflow automation with native AI Agent and LangChain nodes.
  • Witsy: BYOK desktop AI assistant and universal MCP client spanning chat, image, video, voice, and search
  • ChatGPT Box: Deep AI integration in your browser with sidebar chat, selection tools, and page summarization.
  • aichat: All-in-one LLM CLI with Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, and agents across 20+ providers using your own keys.
  • Continue: Open-source VS Code and JetBrains AI coding assistant where every model call uses your own provider API key.
  • LangChain: The most widely used open-source LLM app and agent framework; every chat model integration takes your own API key.
  • NextAI Translator: Open-source browser-extension and desktop translator (successor to OpenAI Translator) that translates, polishes, and summarizes text using your own provider API keys.
  • TypingMind: One-time-purchase power-user chat UI that wraps your own LLM provider keys.
  • LobeChat: Polished open-source AI chat UI/PWA with 40+ provider support, plugins, and multi-modal features.
  • Flowise: Open-source drag-and-drop builder for LLM apps and AI agents.
  • GitHub Copilot (BYOK): Run Copilot Chat and agents on your own provider API keys
  • MacWhisper: Local Whisper transcription for Mac with bring-your-own-key cloud STT and LLM cleanup