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

LibreChat

Open-source, self-hosted ChatGPT alternative unifying many AI providers with agents, MCP, and RAG.

Website Source code

Category:

AI Chat Interfaces

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (MIT)

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, Mistral, DeepSeek, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

Stored by vendor, encryption claimed

Key risk level:

MEDIUM

Trust score:

95/100

LibreChat is an MIT-licensed, self-hosted AI chat platform that provides a polished ChatGPT-style web UI across many providers. It supports AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), artifacts, a sandboxed code interpreter, RAG/file chat, conversation search, multimodal input, and secure multi-user auth. BYOK is a first-class feature: administrators set provider keys (e.g. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_KEY) to 'user_provided', which prompts each end user to enter their own API key in the WebUI under settings. Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints likewise accept apiKey: user_provided and even a user-supplied baseURL, so users can plug in their own keys for essentially any compatible provider. Deployable via Docker, docker-compose, and cloud templates (Railway, Zeabur, Sealos).

How your API key is handled

Your API key is stored encrypted on the server instance you control. 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

Sign in, open settings, and enter your provider API key — it is stored encrypted on your server.