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

Onyx

Open-source enterprise search and AI assistant that works with every LLM and connects to your knowledge sources.

Website Source code

Category:

Knowledge Management

Pricing:

Freemium

Open source:

Yes (MIT (Community Edition))

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

Web, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

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

API key storage:

User controls deployment

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

93/100

Onyx (formerly Danswer) is an open-source AI platform for enterprise search and chat. It connects to 40+ knowledge sources (Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Google Drive, etc.) and grounds answers using hybrid search and advanced agentic RAG, with deep research, MCP, code interpreter, and web search. Admins configure their own LLM providers in the admin UI by pasting their own API keys, and it works with both proprietary providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini/Vertex, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock) and self-hosted/local models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, LiteLLM), plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via a dedicated Custom Inference Provider config. The Community Edition is MIT-licensed and fully self-hostable via Docker/Kubernetes/Helm; a managed cloud and a feature-richer Enterprise Edition are also offered.

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.