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

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.

Website Source code

Category:

Knowledge Management

Pricing:

Freemium

Open source:

Yes (MIT)

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

Desktop, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, DeepSeek, xAI Grok, Ollama, Together AI, Fireworks, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

Stored locally on device

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

93/100

AnythingLLM is an open-source (MIT) all-in-one AI application that lets users chat with their documents, build no-code AI agents, and run a private RAG workspace either as a free desktop app (Mac/Windows/Linux) or self-hosted via Docker. It is bring-your-own-key: users obtain their own API keys from each provider and enter them in AnythingLLM's settings, or point it at local engines (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp) or any custom OpenAI-compatible base URL. Confirmed providers where the user supplies their own key include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI Grok, OpenRouter, Perplexity, Cohere, Together AI, Fireworks AI, and generic OpenAI-compatible endpoints. The project is highly popular (~62k GitHub stars) and actively maintained (v1.14.1 released June 2026). A paid hosted Cloud tier and enterprise plans also exist, but the desktop and self-hosted BYOK paths are free.

How your API key is handled

Your API key is stored locally on your device. 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

Open settings, paste your provider API key, choose a model, and start — the key stays on your device.