BYOAIK (Bring Your Own AI Key) is a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.

Dify

Open-source platform for building agentic AI workflows and RAG apps with your own model keys.

Website Source code

Category:
Agent Frameworks
Maintenance:
Actively developed (last commit today)
Pricing:
Freemium
Open source:
Yes (Dify Open Source License (Apache 2.0-based with additional conditions))
Self-hostable:
Yes
Local-first:
Yes
Platforms:
Web, Self-hosted, Docker
AI providers (bring your own key):
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Cohere, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible
API key storage:
User controls deployment
Key risk level:
LOW
Trust score:
78/100

Dify is a production-ready, open-source platform for developing AI applications, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines through a visual builder. Users configure their own LLM credentials under Settings -> Model Providers, where "Custom Providers use your own API keys for direct access to model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google," with full control and direct billing. It supports hundreds of proprietary and open-source models from dozens of inference providers, including OpenAI-API-compatible endpoints and local models via Ollama. The Community Edition is free and self-hostable via Docker Compose, Kubernetes, or Terraform; a hosted Dify Cloud and Enterprise edition are also offered.

Why this trust score (78/100)

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 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 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.
  • [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.