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

GraphRAG

Microsoft's graph RAG pipeline, driven by a key you place in its own config.

Website Source code

Category:
Knowledge Management
Maintenance:
Actively developed (last commit 6 days ago)
Pricing:
Open Source
Open source:
Yes (MIT)
Self-hostable:
Yes
Local-first:
No
Platforms:
CLI, Self-hosted, Local-only, Docker
AI providers (bring your own key):
OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Custom / OpenAI-compatible
API key storage:
Configured by environment variable
Key risk level:
LOW
Trust score:
80/100

GraphRAG is Microsoft Research's structured retrieval pipeline: it extracts entities and relationships from a corpus into a graph, then answers global questions that plain retrieval cannot. Model access is configured with GRAPHRAG_API_KEY against OpenAI or Azure OpenAI endpoints you nominate. Be deliberate about scale before running it: indexing passes every document through a model, so cost and exposure both scale with the size of the corpus rather than with how much you ask. MIT.

How this tool was scored

Key handling 82/100 (where your key rests and who sees it, comparable across any licence) and verifiability 70/100 (how much of that BYOAIK could confirm, lower for closed source). Neither contains a popularity signal.

  • Key Safety 22/25: The key is supplied by an environment variable or local config file you control.
  • 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 10/15: Can be self-hosted, so the data path stays inside infrastructure you control.
  • Maintenance 10/10: Actively developed, with 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 2026-09-23, about 0 month(s) ago. source

How your API key is handled

Your API key is supplied via an environment variable or local config file. 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

Install the tool, set your provider API key as an environment variable (or in its config file), and pick a model.