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

Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal, editing code in your local git repo.

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Category:

Coding Assistants

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (Apache-2.0)

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

CLI, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Cohere, DeepSeek, xAI Grok, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

Configured by environment variable

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

95/100

Aider is an open-source, terminal-based AI pair programmer that edits code directly in your local git repository and auto-commits each change with a descriptive message. It supports 100+ programming languages, repo-map context, voice-to-code, and automatic linting/testing. It is fully bring-your-own-key: users supply their own LLM credentials via command-line flags (e.g. `--api-key anthropic=<key>`, `--openai-api-key`), environment variables, a `.env` file, or a `.aider.conf.yml` config. It connects to almost any LLM including cloud providers and local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints via configurable base URLs.

How your API key is handled

Your API key is supplied via an environment variable or local config file. Requests are sent directly to the AI provider. Because it can be self-hosted, your key never has to touch a third-party backend.

Setup

Install the tool, set your provider API key as an environment variable (or in its config file), and pick a model.