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

Botpress

Open-source chatbot and agent builder you can self-host, adding your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key.

Website Source code

Category:
Automation 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, Ollama
API key storage:
User controls deployment
Key risk level:
LOW
Trust score:
83/100

Botpress is an open-source platform for building and deploying LLM-powered chatbots and agents, offered as a hosted cloud and a self-hostable version. In self-hosted deployments an administrator adds their own provider key — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or a local model — in the bot's settings, giving control over model choice and token cost instead of a bundled per-message rate. Deployable through Docker on your own infrastructure. MIT licensed, 14,869 stars, last commit within a day of review.

Why this trust score (83/100)

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.
  • Privacy 14/15 — Local-first: it works without sending your data anywhere. Can be self-hosted, so the data path stays inside infrastructure you control.
  • Maintenance 10/10 — Actively developed — commits within the last three months.
  • Verification Confidence 1/10 — Compiled from public documentation by an AI-assisted pass, not independently confirmed.

What was checked

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

  • [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Most recent commit 2026-08-14 — 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.