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

big-AGI

Multi-model AI workspace with Beam multi-model chat, personas, image and voice, on your own keys

Website Source code

Category:

AI Chat Interfaces

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (MIT)

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

Web, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

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

API key storage:

User controls deployment

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

90/100

big-AGI is an open-source, multi-model AI workspace aimed at "experts." It runs on a bring-your-own-key model: users connect their own provider API keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and 20+ others) and big-AGI charges nothing for model usage, with keys stored locally in the browser by default. Standout features include Beam (run one prompt across multiple models simultaneously to compare/validate responses), customizable AI personas, text-to-image generation and editing, voice/TTS, web search with citations, code highlighting and execution, PDF import, and split-window multi-chat. It can be used via the free hosted app at app.big-agi.com (BYOK) or self-hosted from the MIT-licensed codebase via Docker/Vercel; a paid Pro tier adds cloud sync, backup, and priority support. A native desktop app is advertised as "coming soon." The repo is actively maintained (v2.0.5, May 2026, ~7k stars) and explicitly markets itself as non-VC-funded with zero lock-in.

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.