Botanika

A chat app. Bring your own API keys.

Client Features

• ✅ Fully supported
• 🆗 Partially supported
• ❌ Not supported

Support	TTS	STT	Open source	MCP Support	Desktop App	Web App	BYOK	File support	Image generation
Botanika	✅	✅	✅	✅	🆗	✅	✅	✅	❌
T3.Chat	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	🆗	✅	✅
ChatGPT	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅
Copilot	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅
Claude	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌
Gemini	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅

Run

This app uses PostgreSQL as a database. You can run it locally or use Docker Compose for a complete setup.

You can set your environment variables in the .env file. Copy .env.example and fill in the values.

Local Development

bun install

# Generate Prisma client
bunx prisma generate

bun build-ui-dev

bun start-ui-dev

Docker Compose

The easiest way to run the application is using Docker Compose, which will set up both the application and the PostgreSQL database:

docker-compose up -d -f docker-compose.prod.yml

Make sure you have all necessary environment variables configured.

The PostgreSQL database will be initialized with the schema defined in db_setup.sql.

Integrations

If you want to use any of these integrations, add them on the "Settings" page.

Integration name	Required settings
Google Search	Get API key - Get Search engine ID

Supported LLM providers

Depending on the provider and model you select, requests might not work reliably.

Provider	API key link
OpenAI	OpenAI
Groq	Groq
OpenRouter	OpenRouter
Azure	Needs resource name and api key
Ollama	No key, use Ollama URL - if you host locally, you can use ngrok