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

RAGFlow

Open-source RAG engine with deep document understanding for grounded, cited document Q&A.

Website Source code

Category:

Document Analysis

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, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, xAI Grok, Together AI, Ollama, Hugging Face, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

User controls deployment

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

94/100

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation engine built on deep document understanding (OCR, layout and table parsing) that delivers grounded, citation-backed question answering over your documents, fused with agent capabilities. Users self-host via Docker and configure AI providers through an in-app Model providers page (avatar > Model providers), pasting their own API key and optional base URL. It supports 60+ model vendors, so end users bring their own keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, Gemini, Cohere, Together, xAI, Perplexity, local Ollama/Xinference/LocalAI, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. A managed cloud tier (cloud.ragflow.io) also exists, but the self-hosted open-source build is fully BYOK.

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.