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

OpenAI Completion (Sublime Text)

Sublime Text AI assistant where you paste your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini key, or point it at local Ollama.

Website Source code

Category:
IDE Plugins
Pricing:
Open Source
Open source:
Yes (MIT)
Self-hostable:
Yes
Local-first:
Yes
Platforms:
Desktop, Self-hosted, Docker
AI providers (bring your own key):
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Ollama
API key storage:
Stored locally on device
Key risk level:
LOW
Trust score:
85/100

This Sublime Text package adds inline AI chat, completion and refactoring commands and is entirely bring-your-own-key: you add your own key to the plugin's settings file or point it at a local Ollama server, rather than using any bundled credential. The project advertises support for current OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models alongside Ollama. Distributed free through Package Control. MIT licensed, 466 stars, last commit within a month of review.

Why this trust score (85/100)

Trust measures how the tool treats your API key and how much of that has been verified. It contains no popularity signal.

  • Key Safety 23/25 — The key is held on your own device.
  • Request Routing 17/20 — Requests go straight from you to the AI provider.
  • Transparency 20/20 — Source is public under MIT, 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 — 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, not set by hand.

  • [STRONG · SOURCE_SCAN] Supports a local model backend, so it can run with no cloud provider key at all. source
  • [CONFIRMED · SOURCE_SCAN] Most recent commit 2026-08-04 — about 0 month(s) ago. source

How your API key is handled

Your API key is stored locally on your device. 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

Open settings, paste your provider API key, choose a model, and start — the key stays on your device.