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

Summarize

Point at any URL, YouTube, podcast, PDF, or file and get the gist, via Chrome/Firefox sidebar or CLI using your own model API key.

Website Source code

Category:

Browser Extensions

Pricing:

Open Source

Open source:

Yes (MIT)

Self-hostable:

Yes

Local-first:

Yes

Platforms:

Browser Extension, CLI, Self-hosted, Docker

AI providers (bring your own key):

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, OpenRouter, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible

API key storage:

Stored in browser storage

Key risk level:

MEDIUM

Trust score:

88/100

Open-source (MIT) summarization tool by Peter Steinberger that extracts and summarizes content from web pages, PDFs, images, audio/video, YouTube, podcasts, and RSS. It ships as a Chrome Side Panel extension (with chat and history), a Firefox Sidebar, a CLI, and an optional local daemon for streaming Markdown output. It performs transcript-first media processing, video slide extraction with OCR, and timestamped cards. Users bring their own LLM provider API key: configuration is via environment variables (OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY / GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY, XAI_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_API_KEY, plus OpenAI-compatible endpoints like Z.AI, NVIDIA, MiniMax) or a local config file at ~/.summarize/config.json. Ollama and other OpenAI-compatible local endpoints are supported for fully local use; if no key is set it can fall back to on-device Gemini Nano. Note: Groq/AssemblyAI/ElevenLabs/FAL keys are used only for audio transcription, not for the summarization LLM. Verified against the live GitHub API on 2026-06-20: 6,226 stars, MIT license, not archived, not a fork, latest release v0.20.0 published 2026-06-19, last pushed 2026-06-19.

How your API key is handled

Your API key is stored in your browser's local storage. 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 the extension/app settings, paste your provider API key (kept in your browser), and pick a model.