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

Open Notebook

Open-source, privacy-first NotebookLM alternative that chats with your sources and generates multi-speaker AI podcasts.

Website Source code

Category:

Research Tools

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, xAI Grok, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

User controls deployment

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

90/100

Open Notebook is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed alternative to Google's NotebookLM. You add your own sources (documents, links, media), then chat over them with context-aware AI, run vector search, and generate multi-speaker audio podcasts with configurable per-speaker voices and personalities. It is fully BYOK: keys are entered in-app via Settings -> API Keys -> Add Credential, where you pick a provider, paste your key, run Test Connection, then Discover/Register Models. Thanks to its "Esperanto" provider-abstraction layer it supports 18+ providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, xAI, DeepSeek, Ollama/LM Studio local, OpenRouter, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, plus TTS/STT services like ElevenLabs and Deepgram) and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via a configurable base URL. It runs locally through Docker (default at localhost:8502) and exposes a REST API.

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.