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

Tools that accept your Ollama API key (166)

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Depends on the endpoint you choose Ollama runs on your own machine, so there is no shared endpoint to probe. Whether a browser app can reach it depends on the OLLAMA_ORIGINS setting on that machine.

Tools that support Ollama

  • RamaLama: Runs local models inside rootless containers with no network access by default: auto-detects your GPU, needs no key.
  • LocalAI: Self-hosted drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API covering text, vision, audio and images: your hardware, no key.
  • torchtune: PyTorch-native fine-tuning recipes with no framework layer between you and the training loop.
  • Agent Desk: Self-hosted AI customer support desk with human handoff, on OpenAI-compatible model access you configure.
  • OpenDocuments: Self-hosted RAG search over your company's documents, with a local-LLM path that keeps data on your network.
  • DeerFlow: ByteDance's open-source super-agent harness for deep research, coding, and content, with bring-your-own-key LLMs.
  • Retrieval-based Voice Conversion WebUI: Train and run voice-conversion models entirely on your own GPU: no cloud voice API or subscription.
  • Ollama: Runs open models on your own machine and serves them over a local API. There is no cloud key to bring at all.
  • SwarmUI: Modular front end for local Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI backends: your own GPU, no image API key.
  • Kotaemon: Self-hosted chat-with-your-documents RAG interface with citation highlighting, running on your own API key or a local model.
  • PrivateGPT: Privacy-first RAG app to ingest and query your documents using local or remote LLMs, fully offline-capable.
  • ComfyUI: Node-based diffusion studio that runs image and video models on your own hardware and your own weights: no cloud key at all.
  • Stability Matrix: One installer and model manager for ComfyUI, SD.Next, InvokeAI and the rest, all running locally.
  • llama.cpp: The C/C++ inference engine underneath most local-LLM apps: run GGUF models on your own hardware, no key required.
  • ACE-Step: Full songs generated on your own GPU, with the weights on your disk and no service in the loop.
  • SD.Next: All-in-one local studio for image and video generation across dozens of model architectures.
  • LlamaFactory: Fine-tune a hundred-plus open models from a local web UI, no key and no cloud step.
  • Voicebox: Local voice studio for cloning and dictation, positioned against ElevenLabs, with nothing sent anywhere.
  • TRL: Hugging Face's reference library for SFT, DPO and GRPO, run wherever you run Python.
  • Unsloth: Fine-tune open models on your own GPU, with the training data and the weights never leaving it.
  • KoboldCpp: Single-file GGUF runner with a bundled web UI: everything runs on your own machine with no key or account.
  • Piper: Fast neural speech on a Raspberry Pi, the TTS engine behind much of the offline voice-assistant world.
  • Chatterbox: Zero-shot voice cloning and expressive TTS you run yourself, from a commercial vendor, under MIT.
  • Applio: Voice conversion toolkit built on RVC, with training and inference on your own machine.
  • Hugging Face Chat UI: Open-source SvelteKit chat interface powering HuggingChat, self-hostable against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own API key.
  • text-generation-webui: Desktop app for local models with a full web UI: runs offline with zero telemetry and no API key.
  • vLLM: High-throughput self-hosted serving engine for open models on your own GPUs, behind an OpenAI-compatible API you own.
  • Krita AI Diffusion: AI image generation inside Krita, powered by your own local or remote ComfyUI server
  • OpenWhispr: Privacy-first voice-to-text dictation with local Whisper/Parakeet and bring-your-own-key cloud AI.
  • PaperQA2: Citation-backed question answering over your own library of scientific PDFs, on whichever provider key you export.
  • MetaGPT: Open-source multi-agent software company that turns a one-line requirement into code, using your own LLM key.
  • Draw Things: Image generation that runs offline on an iPhone or a Mac, not in someone else's datacentre.
  • PocketPal AI: iOS and Android app running GGUF models fully on-device: chat offline with no key and no subscription.
  • Axolotl: YAML-configured fine-tuning built for multi-GPU runs you can reproduce and audit.
  • Enchanted: Open-source iOS, macOS and visionOS chat client for your own self-hosted Ollama server: no cloud, no markup.
  • llamafile: Packages a model and its runtime into one executable you just run: no install, no internet, no API key.
  • manga-image-translator: One-click OCR and translation of text baked into manga, comics, and images, with your own LLM/MT provider keys.
  • Khoj: Open-source, self-hostable AI second brain that chats with your documents and the web.
  • Open TutorAI: Self-hosted tutoring platform that connects to Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you point it at.
  • AppFlowy AI: Open-source Notion alternative with AI you control via local Ollama or your own keys
  • OpenAI Completion (Sublime Text): Sublime Text AI assistant where you paste your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key, or point it at local Ollama.
  • Xinference: Self-hosted model server for LLMs, embeddings and speech behind one OpenAI-compatible API.
  • Buzz: Cross-platform desktop app to transcribe and translate audio offline with Whisper, or via your own OpenAI-compatible API key.
  • AutoGen: Microsoft's open-source multi-agent framework where every model client takes your own API key or environment variable.
  • Morphic: Open-source AI answer engine with a generative UI, bring your own provider key
  • Guidance: Constrained prompt-programming library for steering model output structure, authenticated with your own 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.
  • Browser Use: Point any model at a real browser and let it click, on a key and an endpoint you choose.
  • Botpress: Open-source chatbot and agent builder you can self-host, adding your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini 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.
  • Maid: Free Android app for chatting with GGUF models entirely on-device, or remote providers using your own API key.
  • Agent Zero: Self-hosted, Docker-sandboxed autonomous agent framework that writes and runs its own code using your provider keys.
  • gptme: Open-source terminal AI agent that writes code, runs shell/Python, and browses the web with your own provider keys.
  • Local Deep Research: Local-first agentic deep-research assistant that produces cited reports across web, academic, and private sources.
  • Meetily: Privacy-first, self-hosted AI meeting notetaker with local transcription and BYOK summaries.
  • 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.
  • Anki AI Utils: Improves the Anki flashcards you keep failing with AI explanations, mnemonics and images, on your own key.
  • 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.
  • Ellama: Emacs AI assistant that defaults to a local Ollama model and takes your key for anything hosted.
  • Local GPT (Obsidian): Obsidian plugin for AI note actions that defaults to local Ollama models, or any cloud key you configure yourself.
  • OpenTutor: Block-based adaptive learning workspace that turns your own course material into notes, quizzes and flashcards on your own key.
  • promptfoo: CLI and library for testing, comparing and red-teaming prompts across providers on your own keys.
  • Koharu: Rust-built ML manga translator with optional bring-your-own-key hosted LLM backends.
  • Readest: Cross-platform open-source EPUB/PDF reader with built-in translation and BYOK AI reading tools.
  • Baserow: Open-source Airtable alternative whose AI field runs on your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, OpenRouter or Ollama key.
  • Open Deep Research (LangChain): LangChain's open-source deep research agent you run with your own models and search/MCP tools.
  • Windmill: Open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows, APIs, and UIs, with bring-your-own-key AI codegen.
  • BlogPilot: Self-hostable SEO content studio covering keyword research, audits and topic authority on one AI key you supply.
  • Qwen Code: Open-source terminal coding agent (Gemini-CLI fork) that runs on your own API key for any OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini-compatible endpoint.
  • Open Interpreter: Natural-language coding agent that runs code locally in your terminal using your own model key.
  • Anarlog: Open-source, local-first AI meeting notetaker for macOS with bring-your-own-key and local model support.
  • Whispering: Open-source, local-first dictation and transcription with your own API keys.
  • 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.
  • SurfSense: Open-source, privacy-focused NotebookLM / Perplexity / Glean alternative that connects any LLM to your docs and external sources.
  • Perplexica: Open-source, self-hostable AI search engine that answers with citations using SearXNG plus your own LLM provider.
  • llm.nvim: Neovim ghost-text completion pointed at whatever endpoint you choose, including your own.
  • LiteLLM: One OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of a hundred providers, running on keys you hold.
  • LLM: CLI tool and Python library for accessing many LLMs with your own API keys
  • Text Generator: Template-driven AI text generation inside your Obsidian notes, using your own provider API keys.
  • Pot (pot-desktop): Cross-platform desktop app for selection translation and OCR, powered by your own provider keys.
  • ChatterUI: Open-source Android LLM frontend: run GGUF models on-device or connect with your own OpenAI, Claude or OpenRouter key.
  • Whisper (Obsidian): Obsidian speech-to-text plugin that transcribes recorded or uploaded audio via any Whisper-compatible API using your own key.
  • Dyad: Local open-source AI app builder: an alternative to hosted builders that runs on your machine and your own keys.
  • AutoGPT: Open-source autonomous AI agent platform with a low-code visual builder you can self-host with your own keys.
  • prompttools: Python library for experimenting with and unit-testing prompts, executed locally on your own keys.
  • RAGFlow: Open-source RAG engine with deep document understanding for grounded, cited document Q&A.
  • Open Notebook: Open-source, privacy-first NotebookLM alternative that chats with your sources and generates multi-speaker AI podcasts.
  • Copilot for Obsidian: Open-source AI assistant plugin for Obsidian with chat, vault Q&A, and agentic workflows over your notes.
  • 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.
  • ChatALL: Desktop app that queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more side by side, each using your own API key.
  • 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.
  • CrewAI: Open-source Python framework for orchestrating collaborative, role-playing autonomous AI agents.
  • DSPy: Stanford framework for programming prompts rather than hand-tuning them, against any model on your own key.
  • Cherry Studio: All-in-one desktop AI client where you plug in your own provider keys for chat, agents, and 300+ assistants.
  • VoiceInk: Open-source macOS dictation app with local whisper.cpp and bring-your-own-key cloud STT and AI cleanup.
  • Onyx: Open-source enterprise search and AI assistant that works with every LLM and connects to your knowledge sources.
  • gptel: Simple, extensible LLM client for Emacs that works in any buffer
  • Jan: Open-source local-first desktop AI assistant that runs models offline or via your own cloud provider keys.
  • Langflow: Open-source visual builder for AI agents and RAG workflows on a node canvas.
  • Chatbox: Cross-platform AI client for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models with your own keys.
  • Langfuse: Self-hosted LLM engineering platform: prompt management, playground and evals all run against a key you bring.
  • 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.
  • Zed: High-performance Rust code editor with a built-in AI agent that runs on your own provider API keys.
  • 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.
  • ProxyAI: Open-source JetBrains coding assistant, formerly CodeGPT, that runs on the provider key you paste into settings.
  • Letta: Open-source platform for building stateful AI agents with long-term memory
  • Deep Research: Browser-based deep-research app that generates in-depth reports using any LLM, with keys stored locally in your browser.
  • LlamaIndex: Leading open-source data and agent framework for building research agents; you supply every provider's API key.
  • Open WebUI: Feature-rich, self-hosted web UI for LLMs with full bring-your-own-key support across OpenAI, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible provider.
  • OpenAI Codex CLI: Open-source terminal coding agent that edits files and runs commands in a sandbox.
  • big-AGI: Multi-model AI workspace with Beam multi-model chat, personas, image and voice, on your own keys
  • Tabby: Self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant (Copilot alternative) you point at the models and providers you choose.
  • Subtitle Edit: Mature open-source subtitle editor with Whisper transcription and BYOK LLM auto-translation
  • Text Generator (Obsidian): Bring-your-own-key AI text generation inside Obsidian via templated prompts.
  • 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.
  • CodeCompanion.nvim: AI coding assistant for Neovim, Vim style
  • Summarize: Point at any URL, YouTube, podcast, PDF, or file and get the gist, via Chrome/Firefox sidebar or CLI using your own model API key.
  • KISS Translator: Minimalist open-source bilingual webpage translation extension with bring-your-own-key AI support.
  • Fabric: Open-source CLI framework for augmenting humans with AI via reusable, crowdsourced prompt "patterns."
  • bolt.diy: Open-source in-browser full-stack app builder that runs on any LLM you wire up with your own key.
  • Pi: Minimal open-source AI agent toolkit and coding-agent CLI with a unified multi-provider LLM API, BYOK.
  • Haystack: Open-source Python framework for building production RAG pipelines and agent workflows with any LLM provider.
  • Dify: Open-source platform for building agentic AI workflows and RAG apps with your own model keys.
  • Mastra: Open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents and graph-based workflows.
  • SillyTavern: Open-source self-hosted LLM frontend for power users and roleplay, BYOK to many backends.
  • Sim: Open-source visual builder for AI agent workflows with full bring-your-own-key support.
  • Flowise: Open-source drag-and-drop builder for LLM apps and AI agents.
  • OpenAgent: Self-hostable personal assistant pairing your own RAG knowledge base with thirty-plus model providers.
  • Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal, editing code in your local git repo.
  • 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.
  • aichat: All-in-one LLM CLI with Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, and agents across 20+ providers using your own keys.
  • Airi: Self-hosted, you-owned AI companion with a VRM/Live2D avatar and real-time voice chat.
  • Kilo Code: Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with zero-markup BYOK
  • Twenty CRM: Open-source, AI-first CRM (Salesforce alternative) with bring-your-own-key AI agents.
  • 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.
  • Continue: Open-source VS Code and JetBrains AI coding assistant where every model call uses your own provider API key.
  • Nanobrowser: Open-source Chrome extension running multi-agent AI web automation with your own LLM keys.
  • n8n: Fair-code workflow automation with native AI Agent and LangChain nodes.
  • LangChain: The most widely used open-source LLM app and agent framework; every chat model integration takes your own API key.
  • OpenAI Translator: Browser extension and cross-platform desktop app for AI translation, polishing, and summarization using your own LLM 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.
  • LobeChat: Polished open-source AI chat UI/PWA with 40+ provider support, plugins, and multi-modal features.
  • TypingMind: One-time-purchase power-user chat UI that wraps your own LLM provider keys.
  • Granth ✓: Local-first writing studio for fiction and nonfiction books: plain-Markdown manuscripts with whole-book AI on your own key.
  • Msty: Free desktop AI studio where you plug in your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or OpenRouter key, or run local models.
  • Read Frog: Open-source AI browser extension for immersive bilingual translation and language learning.
  • Page Assist: Open-source browser extension giving a sidebar and web UI for local and cloud AI models via your own keys.
  • AI Actions for Shortcuts: Bring-your-own-key AI actions for Apple Shortcuts on iOS, macOS, and visionOS.
  • 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