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Open Canvas
The open AI canvas — your keys, your models, zero lock-in.
Most AI platforms pick your model, hide your usage, and bill you their way. Open Canvas flips that. Bring your own API keys. Choose Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Mistral or plug in any custom model (DeepSeek, Groq, Ollama, Grok). Switch mid-conversation. See every token you spend in real time. No black box billing, no surprise charges, no lock-in. You own your AI stack. We just built the canvas. Free to use. Pro features coming soon.
I'm going to be honest about why I built this.
The AI tools that exist today are doing something quietly predatory. They lock you into their model of choice, hide your actual usage behind a monthly subscription, and make switching feel impossible by design. That's not innovation , that's a moat built on your dependency.
I got tired of paying a platform margin on top of what I was already paying for intelligence.
So I built Open Canvas. The rules are simple:
— You bring your own keys. Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq, whatever ships tomorrow.
— You see every single token you spend. Real number. Real cost. No abstraction.
— You pay your provider directly. We never touch that money.
— If a better model drops next week, you switch in one click. No migration, no re-subscription, no permission needed.
The best AI tool should have no opinion about which AI you use. It should just get out of the way.
This is day one. We're free. We're open. And we're building in public.
Tell me the one thing that would make you switch from whatever you're using today — I'll build it this week.
About Open Canvas on Product Hunt
“The open AI canvas — your keys, your models, zero lock-in.”
Open Canvas was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #145 on the daily leaderboard. Most AI platforms pick your model, hide your usage, and bill you their way. Open Canvas flips that. Bring your own API keys. Choose Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, Mistral or plug in any custom model (DeepSeek, Groq, Ollama, Grok). Switch mid-conversation. See every token you spend in real time. No black box billing, no surprise charges, no lock-in. You own your AI stack. We just built the canvas. Free to use. Pro features coming soon.
On the analytics side, Open Canvas competes within Productivity, Developer Tools and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.6M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Open Canvas performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Open Canvas?
Open Canvas was hunted by Ashish Sharda. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Open Canvas including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ashish Sharda