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

LobeChat

Polished open-source AI chat UI/PWA with 40+ provider support, plugins, and multi-modal features.

Website Source code

Category:

AI Chat Interfaces

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (LobeHub Community / Apache-2.0-based)

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

Web, Desktop, Mobile, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, DeepSeek, xAI Grok, Ollama, Together AI, Fireworks, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

Stored by vendor, encryption claimed

Key risk level:

MEDIUM

Trust score:

94/100

LobeChat (LobeHub) is an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework available as a web PWA, desktop app, and self-hosted Docker deployment. Users add their own API keys for 40+ AI providers under Settings > Model Provider (keys are encrypted at rest via KEY_VAULTS_SECRET), or configure them through environment variables. It supports custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints and proxy URLs, local models via Ollama, a knowledge base with RAG, plugins/artifacts, TTS/STT, and vision. The project is very actively maintained (v2.2.7 released June 2026) with ~79k GitHub stars.

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.