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.

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I built the open alternative to AI builders -- your keys, your models, zero lock-in

Hey Product Hunt

Launching Open Canvas tomorrow and wanted to share the story before it goes live.

I kept running into the same wall with AI tools.They pick your model. Hide your usage.

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Open Canvas

The open AI canvas — your keys, your models, zero lock-in.

The open AI canvas — your keys, your models, zero lock-in.

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I built the open alternative to AI builders -- your keys, your models, zero lock-in

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I built the open alternative to AI builders -- your keys, your models, zero lock-in