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

Tools that accept your OpenRouter API key (72)

DeerFlow — ByteDance's open-source super-agent harness for deep research, coding, and content, with bring-your-own-key LLMs.
OpenAI Codex CLI — Open-source terminal coding agent that edits files and runs commands in a sandbox.
AutoGPT — Open-source autonomous AI agent platform with a low-code visual builder you can self-host with your own keys.
Warp — Agentic terminal / development environment with an AI agent built into the shell, supporting your own provider API keys.
Hugging Face Chat UI — Open-source SvelteKit chat interface powering HuggingChat, self-hostable against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with your own 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.
Onyx — Open-source enterprise search and AI assistant that works with every LLM and connects to your knowledge sources.
LLM — CLI tool and Python library for accessing many LLMs with your own API keys
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.
Open Interpreter — Natural-language coding agent that runs code locally in your terminal using your own model key.
Chatbox — Cross-platform AI client for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models with your own keys.
Qwen Code — Open-source terminal coding agent (Gemini-CLI fork) that runs on your own API key for any OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini-compatible endpoint.
Readest — Cross-platform open-source EPUB/PDF reader with built-in translation and BYOK AI reading tools.
LibreChat — Open-source, self-hosted ChatGPT alternative unifying many AI providers with agents, MCP, and RAG.
Khoj — Open-source, self-hostable AI second brain that chats with your documents and the web.
Skyvern — Automate browser-based workflows with LLMs and computer vision instead of brittle selectors.
GitHub Copilot (BYOK) — Run Copilot Chat and agents on your own provider API keys
Pot (pot-desktop) — Cross-platform desktop app for selection translation and OCR, powered by your own provider keys.
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.
Meetily — Privacy-first, self-hosted AI meeting notetaker with local transcription and BYOK summaries.
Local Deep Research — Local-first agentic deep-research assistant that produces cited reports across web, academic, and private sources.
Aider — AI pair programming in your terminal, editing code in your local git repo.
ChatGPT Box — Deep AI integration in your browser with sidebar chat, selection tools, and page summarization.
Anarlog — Open-source, local-first AI meeting notetaker for macOS with bring-your-own-key and local model support.
OpenCode — Open-source, provider-agnostic AI coding agent built for the terminal.
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
Copilot for Obsidian — Open-source AI assistant plugin for Obsidian with chat, vault Q&A, and agentic workflows over your notes.
Twenty CRM — Open-source, AI-first CRM (Salesforce alternative) with bring-your-own-key AI agents.
BrowserOS — Open-source agentic browser that runs AI agents to automate web tasks with your own API keys.
Inbox Zero — Open-source AI email assistant that automates triage, replies, and inbox cleanup.
Koharu — Rust-built ML manga translator with optional bring-your-own-key hosted LLM backends.
Granth — Local-first writing studio for fiction and nonfiction books — plain-Markdown manuscripts with whole-book AI on your own key.
n8n — Fair-code workflow automation with native AI Agent and LangChain nodes.
Cline — Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with bring-your-own-key model support.
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.
KISS Translator — Minimalist open-source bilingual webpage translation extension with bring-your-own-key AI support.
LobeChat — Polished open-source AI chat UI/PWA with 40+ provider support, plugins, and multi-modal features.
Fabric — Open-source CLI framework for augmenting humans with AI via reusable, crowdsourced prompt "patterns."
OWL (CAMEL-AI) — Open-source multi-agent framework for real-world task automation, built on CAMEL-AI.
Forge — Open-source terminal AI pair programmer with BYOK access to 300+ models
VoiceInk — Open-source macOS dictation app with local whisper.cpp and bring-your-own-key cloud STT and AI cleanup.
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.
SillyTavern — Open-source self-hosted LLM frontend for power users and roleplay, BYOK to many backends.
Mastra — Open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents and graph-based workflows.
CrewAI — Open-source Python framework for orchestrating collaborative, role-playing autonomous AI agents.
aichat — All-in-one LLM CLI with Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, and agents across 20+ providers using your own keys.
Open Notebook — Open-source, privacy-first NotebookLM alternative that chats with your sources and generates multi-speaker AI podcasts.
Tabby — Self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant (Copilot alternative) you point at the models and providers you choose.
CodeCompanion.nvim — AI coding assistant for Neovim, Vim style
Subtitle Edit — Mature open-source subtitle editor with Whisper transcription and BYOK LLM auto-translation
assistant-ui — TypeScript/React component library for building production AI chat UIs wired to your own provider keys and backend.
Pi — Minimal open-source AI agent toolkit and coding-agent CLI with a unified multi-provider LLM API, BYOK.
Airi — Self-hosted, you-owned AI companion with a VRM/Live2D avatar and real-time voice chat.
Sim — Open-source visual builder for AI agent workflows with full bring-your-own-key support.
Letta — Open-source platform for building stateful AI agents with long-term memory
bolt.diy — Open-source in-browser full-stack app builder that runs on any LLM you wire up with your own key.
avante.nvim — Use your Neovim like Cursor AI IDE, with diff-reviewed AI code edits.
Page Assist — Open-source browser extension giving a sidebar and web UI for local and cloud AI models via your own keys.
big-AGI — Multi-model AI workspace with Beam multi-model chat, personas, image and voice, on your own keys
Windmill — Open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows, APIs, and UIs, with bring-your-own-key AI codegen.
Open Deep Research (LangChain) — LangChain's open-source deep research agent you run with your own models and search/MCP tools.
Scira — Open-source agentic AI search engine that plans, retrieves, and cites sources inline.
Read Frog — Open-source AI browser extension for immersive bilingual translation and language learning.
Deep Research — Browser-based deep-research app that generates in-depth reports using any LLM, with keys stored locally in your browser.
AI Actions for Shortcuts — Bring-your-own-key AI actions for Apple Shortcuts on iOS, macOS, and visionOS.
gptme — Open-source terminal AI agent that writes code, runs shell/Python, and browses the web with your own provider keys.
gptel — Simple, extensible LLM client for Emacs that works in any buffer
Witsy — BYOK desktop AI assistant and universal MCP client spanning chat, image, video, voice, and search
TypingMind — One-time-purchase power-user chat UI that wraps your own LLM provider keys.
MacWhisper — Local Whisper transcription for Mac with bring-your-own-key cloud STT and LLM cleanup