kerf.box runs on whatever AI provider you already use — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, even a local Ollama. Bring your own key (or connect it to your agent over MCP) and it’s free, forever. We never charge you, and we never run generation on our own key — every live run is yours, billed to your own provider account. No subscriptions, no metering, no per-seat math.
Bring a key from any AI provider, or connect via MCP. You only ever pay your provider for the tokens you use.
Your key lives only in your browser and is sent to our API as a single per-request header — never stored, logged, or proxied. Building an agent or self-hosting? Point the API or MCP server at your own key — we add no metering (only a per-IP abuse cap); the only bill is your own provider usage. See the source →