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

Baserow

Open-source Airtable alternative whose AI field runs on your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, OpenRouter or Ollama key.

Website Source code

Category:
Productivity Tools
Pricing:
Open Source
Open source:
Yes (Mixed: MIT core, separate premium/enterprise licence)
Self-hostable:
Yes
Local-first:
Yes
Platforms:
Web, Self-hosted, Docker
AI providers (bring your own key):
OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, OpenRouter, Ollama
API key storage:
User controls deployment
Key risk level:
LOW
Trust score:
81/100

Baserow is a self-hostable no-code database and spreadsheet platform. Its AI field type generates or transforms cell content with an LLM, and self-hosted instances supply their own provider credentials either per workspace under Generative AI settings or instance-wide through environment variables, connecting directly to OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, OpenRouter or a local Ollama endpoint. The open-source edition is MIT licensed while premium and enterprise directories carry separate terms, so GitHub reports no single licence for the repository. 5,571 stars, daily commits.

Why this trust score (81/100)

Trust measures how the tool treats your API key and how much of that has been verified. It contains no popularity signal.

  • Key Safety 21/25 — The key lives in a deployment you run yourself.
  • Request Routing 17/20 — Requests go straight from you to the AI provider.
  • Transparency 15/20 — Source is public, though the licence is unclear or non-standard. Key handling was located in the published source.
  • Privacy 11/15 — Local-first: it works without sending your data anywhere. Can be self-hosted, so the data path stays inside infrastructure you control. Analytics or error-reporting libraries are present; what they send was not established.
  • Maintenance 10/10 — Actively developed — commits within the last three months.
  • Verification Confidence 7/10 — Key handling was found in the published source by BYOAIK's scanner.

What was checked

Verification tier: SOURCE_VERIFIED — derived from the evidence below, not set by hand.

  • [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own Groq key: the project references its API key variable. source
  • [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own OpenAI key: the project references its API key variable. source
  • [REPORTED · SOURCE_SCAN] References PostHog, so some analytics or error reporting is present. This scan cannot tell whether it is opt-in or what it sends. source
  • [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Ships a container definition, so it can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure. source
  • [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Most recent commit 2026-08-11 — about 0 month(s) ago. source

How your API key is handled

You self-host the app, so your API key lives in your own deployment. 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

Deploy it (Docker/compose), add your provider API key in the admin or environment config, then select models.