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

Kilo Code

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with zero-markup BYOK

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Category:

Coding Assistants

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (MIT)

Self-hostable:

No

Local-first:

No

Platforms:

VS Code Extension, JetBrains Plugin, CLI

AI providers (bring your own key):

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

API key storage:

Configured by environment variable

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

92/100

Kilo Code is an open-source agentic coding assistant that runs as a VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, and CLI (with cloud and code-review offerings). Users can bring their own API keys for any provider at zero markup, configured in the extension's Settings under a Providers tab, or run models locally via Ollama / LM Studio. It also offers an optional hosted credits marketplace (Kilo Pass / pay-as-you-go) routing to 500+ models, but markets that BYOK lets you pay providers their exact list price with no commission or hidden fees.

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.

Setup

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