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

Scira

Open-source agentic AI search engine that plans, retrieves, and cites sources inline.

Website Source code

Category:

Research Tools

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (AGPL-3.0)

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

No

Platforms:

Web, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

xAI Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, Cohere, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

User controls deployment

Key risk level:

LOW

Trust score:

86/100

Scira (formerly MiniPerplx) is an open-source, agentic AI-powered search engine built on the Vercel AI SDK. It decomposes a question into sub-tasks, runs live web/academic/social searches (Exa, Firecrawl, Tavily, Parallel), cross-checks evidence, and returns answers with inline citations. The hosted product runs at scira.ai (1M+ monthly searches, 60k+ users per third-party reporting), but the full app is self-hostable under AGPL-3.0 via Docker Compose, Vercel, or Node/pnpm. When self-hosting, the operator brings their own provider API keys: the .env.example defines XAI_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GROQ_API_KEY, GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY (plus Inception) and search keys EXA_API_KEY, FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY. The ai/providers.ts wires direct SDKs for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, xAI Grok, and Cohere, an OpenRouter custom provider, OpenAI-compatible providers (Z.AI/GLM, HuggingFace, Novita, MiniMax, etc.), and Vercel AI Gateway routing for DeepSeek, Qwen/Alibaba, Kimi and others.

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.