BYOAIK (Bring Your Own AI Key) is a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.
BlogPilot
Self-hostable SEO content studio covering keyword research, audits and topic authority on one AI key you supply.
- Category:
- Marketing and SEO Tools
- 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, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, Together AI, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible
- API key storage:
- User controls deployment
- Key risk level:
- LOW
- Trust score:
- 90/100
BlogPilot is a self-hostable SEO content studio for writing, keyword research, technical site audits and topic authority scoring, positioned against Surfer, Ahrefs, Clearscope and MarketMuse. It runs on one AI key that you bring, across twelve or more providers with automatic failover, and the README notes a free Google Gemini key is enough to operate it. Several features need no AI key at all, including keyword research from Google Autocomplete and People-Also-Ask, and CrUX field data via PageSpeed Insights. Client data stays in a single SQLite file you hold, and it runs on a laptop, a free Vercel tier or Docker. MIT licensed.
Why this trust score (90/100)
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 20/20: Source is public under MIT, so anyone can check how the key is handled. Key handling was located in the published source.
- Privacy 15/15: Local-first: it works without sending your data anywhere. Can be self-hosted, so the data path stays inside infrastructure you control. The project states it sends no telemetry.
- Maintenance 10/10: Actively developed, with 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 and not set by hand.
- [REPORTED · RESEARCH] This listing was compiled by an AI-assisted research pass over the tool's public website, README and documentation. No person independently confirmed it.
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own Google Gemini key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] Supports a local model backend, so it can run with no cloud provider key at all. source
- [REPORTED · SOURCE_SCAN] The project states it sends no telemetry. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own OpenAI key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own Anthropic key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own OpenRouter key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [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 Mistral key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own DeepSeek key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own Together AI key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] The user supplies their own Perplexity key: the project references its API key variable. source
- [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Most recent commit 2026-08-15, 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.