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BYOK Research & Analytics Tools

Research and analytics tools with BYOK support use your own API keys to power data analysis, literature review, and insight extraction. You get the analytical power of frontier AI models at direct-from-provider pricing, with full control over where your research data is processed and stored.

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  • big-AGI

    Free; Pro $9/month · Web · Open source

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    Multi-model AI workspace that runs, compares and merges answers from many providers using your own API keys.

    Works with:OpenAIAnthropicGoogle GeminixAI+14 more

  • Idea Forge Pro

    Free, no account required · Web

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    A free browser-based tool that puts a startup idea through seven validation gates and tells you which one it fails, before you write a line of code.

    Works with:OpenAIOpenRouterDeepSeekGroq

  • Besidka

    Pay only for what you use · Web, Self-hosted · Open source

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    Open-source, self-hostable AI chat client where you bring your own OpenAI or Google AI Studio API key and pay providers directly with no markup.

    Works with:OpenAIGoogle Gemini

  • Find me Cited

    Web

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    GEO citation checker that audits whether Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini recommend your brand using your own API keys.

    Works with:AnthropicOpenAIPerplexityGoogle Gemini+1 more

  • Henro

    Open source

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    Open-source brainstorming canvas that runs in the browser with a user-provided OpenRouter API key.

    Works with:OpenRouter

  • SurfMind

    Chrome extension, Firefox extension, macOS

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    Free AI browser extension with page-aware context that lets you use your own API keys or OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

    Works with:OpenAIAnthropicGoogle GeminiDeepSeek+3 more