BYOAIK — Bring Your Own AI Key: a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.
Budibase
Self-hosted low-code platform for internal tools and AI agents, connected to your own provider key.
- Category:
- App Builders
- Pricing:
- Open Source
- Open source:
- Yes (Mixed: AGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0/MPL-2.0 components, BSL on some AI features)
- Self-hostable:
- Yes
- Local-first:
- No
- Platforms:
- Web, Self-hosted, Docker
- AI providers (bring your own key):
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, Groq
- API key storage:
- User controls deployment
- Key risk level:
- LOW
- Trust score:
- 74/100
Budibase is an open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, workflows and AI agents, fully self-hostable. Under workspace connection settings you add credentials for the provider you want — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, OpenRouter or Groq — before any AI feature or agent can run, so every call uses the key you supplied rather than a pooled one. Self-hostable through Docker or Kubernetes. Licensing is split across the builder, server and client components, with some agent features under a Business Source License. 28,202 stars, last commit within a day of review.
Why this trust score (74/100)
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.
- Privacy 10/15 — 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.