BYOAIK (Bring Your Own AI Key) is a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.
OpenAgent
Self-hostable personal assistant pairing your own RAG knowledge base with thirty-plus model providers.
- Category:
- Knowledge Management
- Pricing:
- Open Source
- Open source:
- Yes (Apache-2.0)
- Self-hostable:
- Yes
- Local-first:
- Yes
- Platforms:
- Web, Self-hosted, Docker
- AI providers (bring your own key):
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Cohere, xAI Grok, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, OpenRouter, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible
- API key storage:
- User controls deployment
- Key risk level:
- LOW
- Trust score:
- 83/100
OpenAgent is a self-hostable personal AI assistant combining language models, a RAG knowledge base built from your own documents, and autonomous agent loops that can browse the web, run code and call MCP-compatible tools. The README documents more than thirty model providers, switchable per conversation without code changes, covering OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Grok, Azure, Bedrock, OpenRouter and Ollama. It also tracks token consumption and cost per provider, model and user, so spend against your own key stays visible. Apache-2.0.
Why this trust score (83/100)
Trust measures how the tool treats your API key and how much of that has been verified. It contains no popularity signal.
- Key Safety 21/25: The key lives in a deployment you run yourself.
- Request Routing 17/20: Requests go straight from you to the AI provider.
- Transparency 20/20: Source is public under Apache-2.0, so anyone can check how the key is handled.
- Privacy 14/15: Local-first: it works without sending your data anywhere. Can be self-hosted, so the data path stays inside infrastructure you control.
- Maintenance 10/10: Actively developed, with commits within the last three months.
- Verification Confidence 1/10: Compiled from public documentation by an AI-assisted pass, not independently confirmed.
What was checked
Verification tier RESEARCH_ASSISTED, derived from the evidence below and not set by hand.
- [REPORTED · RESEARCH] This listing was compiled by an AI-assisted research pass over the tool's public website, README and documentation. No person independently confirmed it.
- [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] Supports a local model backend, so it can run with no cloud provider key at all. source
- [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Ships a container definition, so it can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure. source
- [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Most recent commit 2026-08-20, about 0 month(s) ago. source
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.