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

Inbox Zero

Open-source AI email assistant that automates triage, replies, and inbox cleanup.

Website Source code

Category:

Productivity Tools

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (AGPL-3.0 (with additional commercial/enterprise restrictions))

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

Web, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

User controls deployment

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

88/100

Inbox Zero (elie222/inbox-zero) is a source-available, self-hostable AI personal assistant for email. It connects to Gmail/Outlook and uses LLMs to organize mail, pre-draft replies, automate plain-English rules, track replies, bulk unsubscribe/archive, block cold emails, and generate analytics. It is a Next.js/TypeScript app with Postgres/Prisma, deployable via Docker, Vercel, or local dev. BYOK is confirmed: when self-hosting, the end user supplies their own LLM provider API key. The repo's apps/web/.env.example exposes per-role provider:model config (DEFAULT_LLMS, ECONOMY_LLMS, CHAT_LLMS, NANO_LLMS, DRAFT_LLMS) plus LLM_API_KEY and provider-specific credentials for Azure OpenAI (AZURE_RESOURCE_NAME/AZURE_FOUNDRY_*), Google Vertex (GOOGLE_VERTEX_*), AWS Bedrock (BEDROCK_ACCESS_KEY/SECRET_KEY), Ollama (OLLAMA_BASE_URL/MODEL), and a generic OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_BASE_URL/MODEL/AUTH_HEADER). Documented providers include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini/Vertex, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, AWS Bedrock, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible API. A hosted SaaS at getinboxzero.com also exists (paid), but the self-hosted path is fully BYOK. License is AGPL-3.0 with added commercial-use/enterprise restrictions (org with 5+ business users needs an enterprise license; no reselling), so it is source-available rather than permissively open 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.