Why BYOK Is the Future of AI Tools Why paying for AI markup is a tax on your intelligence — and how bringing your own keys changes everything. The Subscription Tax You Didn't Sign Up For Every AI tool you use right now is charging you twice. Once for the model. And once for the privilege of accessing it through their interface. That "AI assistant" at $20/month? It's wrapping a model that costs $3/month in API calls. The "AI coding tool" at $50/month? Same math — you're paying for their UI, their infrastructure, and their profit margin on top of the model you're already indirectly paying for. Stack up five AI tools and you're spending $300+/month before you've done a single useful thing. That's not a toolkit — that's a tax. Bring Your Own Keys What if you could use the exact same AI models, at cost, through one interface? That's BYOK. Bring Your Own Keys. You already have API keys. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA — you've paid for access. Maybe you're running local models that cost nothing per query.…