What is kunji?
kunji is a free, open-source app for your terminal that lets you chat with AI models from many companies, using your own API keys. You pay each provider directly. kunji never sees your bill, your keys or your conversations.
Kunji (कुंजी) means “key” in Hindi.
What you can do with it
Section titled “What you can do with it”- Chat with any model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Mistral, xAI, Together AI, or a model running on your own computer with Ollama.
- Switch models in the middle of a conversation. Ask GPT, then ask Claude the same thing, without starting over.
- See what every answer costs, and set daily budgets so you never get a surprise bill.
- Compare models side by side to find the fastest or cheapest one for a task.
- Save time with prompts like
kunji @commit, which writes a git commit message from your changes. - Come back to old chats, attach files, and pipe the output of any command into a model.
Who it’s for
Section titled “Who it’s for”kunji is for developers and anyone comfortable with a terminal who already uses AI tools and wants one clean place for all of them: no browser tabs, no copy-paste, no separate app per company.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”you ──► kunji (on your computer) ──► the AI provider you choose │ └── keys in your OS keychain, history and costs in local filesThere is no kunji server in the middle. Your API key and your messages go straight from your computer to the provider. Read more in Privacy and security.
Free and open source
Section titled “Free and open source”Everything that runs on your computer is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, forever.