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Published Oct 27, 2026 ⦁ 10 min read
Your AI SaaS business, ready by this week!
Try demoPublished Oct 27, 2026 ⦁ 10 min read
Before you resell AI under your brand, check who owns customers, revenue share, source code, billing, branding, models and hosting. Categories compared.
"White label AI platform" is one of the vaguest labels in software. It is used for hosted agency dashboards, one-off PHP scripts from a marketplace, open-source chat interfaces with a custom logo, and commercial self-hosted products. All of them let you put your name on AI. They differ on almost everything that matters once you have paying customers.
This guide does not rank products. It explains the four main categories of white label AI software, then gives you a checklist of seven questions that separate them: who owns the customers, who takes a share of revenue, whether you get the source code, how billing works, how far branding goes, which models you can use, and where it runs.
We make Aikeedo, which sits in one of these categories. We have checked every claim about other products against their own pricing pages, licenses and listings as of October 2026, and we say where Aikeedo is the wrong fit.
These are services you subscribe to and resell. The vendor runs the platform; you get a branded dashboard, client sub-accounts and a way to charge clients. Many are aimed at agencies selling chatbots or voice agents to local and service businesses.
Stammer.ai is one example. White label is a paid tier rather than the default, clients prepay a wallet on the vendor's platform, and self-hosting is limited to an Enterprise plan.
You skip running a server. In exchange, the platform, your clients' accounts and a monthly bill that grows with your business all stay with the vendor.
These are self-hosted applications sold on Envato's CodeCanyon marketplace, often built on Laravel. You buy a license, install the script on your own server and get the source.
The detail to know is Envato's licensing. Its standard terms say an Extended License is required "if the end user must pay to use the end product." A Regular License does not cover charging users.
MagicAI and Davinci AI show how this plays out. Both sell a $39 Regular License and a $119 Extended License, and selling subscriptions to your users needs the Extended one. Both also sell many features as separate paid add-ons.
So the headline price is rarely the real price: the total depends on the license tier and the extensions you need, and support and updates follow marketplace terms.
Projects such as Open WebUI, LibreChat, LobeHub, AnythingLLM and Dify are free to self-host. They are mostly designed for teams and developers rather than for resale, and their licenses vary more than people expect. Open WebUI requires its branding to stay above 50 users in a 30-day period unless you hold an enterprise license. Dify's license prohibits operating a multi-tenant environment without written authorization. LibreChat and AnythingLLM are MIT.
None of these documents a built-in way for your end users to pay you. To sell them, you build the billing layer. We compare them in detail in the best self-hosted ChatGPT alternatives.
This is Aikeedo's category: software you license, install on your own server and run as your own SaaS, with billing, plans, an admin panel and branding built in. You get the source code, but it is not open source.
Aikeedo is sold as Aikeedo Core at $99/month, All-Access at $799/year including every marketplace add-on, or a $1,499 one-time Commercial License. Every plan includes the commercial license, full source code and the right to charge your users with no revenue share. The pricing page has the full terms.
Whatever you are evaluating, put these questions to it. A vendor that cannot answer them clearly has told you something.
When a customer signs up, whose database is the record in? Who holds the email address, the payment relationship and the usage history? On a hosted platform, your clients live on the vendor's system, and leaving means migrating them. On self-hosted software, the customer records sit in your own database.
Also ask what happens if you stop paying the vendor. On a hosted service, your clients' access depends on your subscription. On self-hosted software, it depends on your license terms. For example, Aikeedo's subscription plans keep the license valid while you subscribe and keep your data and installation if you cancel, while the one-time license is perpetual.
There are three ways a vendor can take a cut: a percentage of what your customers pay, a markup on AI usage routed through the vendor, or per-seat and per-client fees that grow with your business. None is wrong in itself, but each changes your margins as you grow.
Ask whether you connect to AI providers with your own API keys, and whether customer payments land in your own merchant account. With Aikeedo, both are true: you pay providers directly, and customers pay you through your own gateway accounts with no share going to Aikeedo.
Source code matters for three reasons: you can audit it, you can extend it, and you can keep running it if the vendor changes direction. Hosted SaaS generally does not provide it. Marketplace scripts and commercial self-hosted platforms do. Open-source projects do, under their own license terms.
Then ask how customizations survive updates. A plugin and theme system means your changes live outside the core and survive upgrades. Editing the core directly means merging every release by hand.
Billing is the most underestimated part of an AI SaaS. You need plans, a checkout, renewals, failed payment handling, credit metering per model, top-ups, coupons and taxes. Check three things:
Aikeedo's plans and credits support monthly, yearly, lifetime and one-time plans, credit packs and top-ups, trials, and a separate credit rate for every model. Stripe, PayPal, bank transfer and manual payments are built in, with regional gateways and tax engines as add-ons. Our guide to pricing an AI SaaS with credits or flat plans covers the economics.
"White label" can mean a logo swap, or it can mean your customers never see another company's name anywhere. Check the logo and favicon, colors and theme, transactional emails, the domain and SSL, the landing page, and any "powered by" lines. Then check the license. Some open-source tools require their branding to stay above a certain scale, and some hosted services reserve white label for higher tiers.
Aikeedo's white-label features cover the name, light and dark logos, colors, emails, domain, an installable app icon and a landing page you can replace with your own site.
A platform tied to one provider is exposed to that provider's prices, outages and deprecations. Look for direct support for several providers, a way to add new models without code, and local models if privacy matters to your customers.
Then look past chat. Image, video, voice and transcription tools let you sell more than one kind of product, and they are where per-model pricing matters most. Aikeedo connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cohere, Ollama, fal.ai, Stability AI, Luma, ElevenLabs and others through its model integrations.
Hosted SaaS means no servers but no control. Self-hosted means control, plus responsibility for uptime, backups, security updates and scaling. Be honest about which you want. If nobody on your team will look after a server, a hosted platform may genuinely be the better choice, even at a higher long-term cost.
Aikeedo needs PHP 8.2+ and MySQL, installs through a web installer and updates from the admin panel. That is a modest stack, but it is still yours to run. Our cheapest tech stack guide covers realistic hosting costs.
| Hosted white-label SaaS | CodeCanyon scripts | Open-source chat UIs | Aikeedo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who hosts it | The vendor | You | You | You |
| Source code | Not provided | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Customer records | On the vendor's platform | Your database | Your database | Your database |
| Charging end users | Built in, through the vendor | Extended License required | Not documented; build it yourself | Built in on every plan |
| Branding limits | Often tier-dependent | Per item | Per license; some restrict it | Full, on every license |
| Ongoing cost | Monthly subscription | Extensions, support renewals | Your development time | Subscription or one-time license |
| Best for | Agencies that want no servers | Buyers who want a low entry price | Internal teams and developers | Founders selling an AI workspace |
Aikeedo is built for one job: launching a branded AI workspace, with chat, image, video, voice and writing tools, that subscribers pay you for. It suits founders and agencies that want to own the platform and the customer relationship, and want billing working on day one.
It is not the right choice if:
If those do not apply, the Stammer.ai, MagicAI and Davinci AI comparisons go row by row, and the white-label ChatGPT page shows what a launch looks like. You can also try the full product, admin panel included, in the live demo.
It is AI software you can sell under your own brand. It may be a hosted service you resell, a script you install, an open-source tool you rebrand, or a commercial self-hosted platform. The category tells you who hosts it, who owns the customers and how you charge them.
Yes, if your end users pay. Envato's terms state that an Extended License is required when the end user must pay to use the end product. A Regular License covers end products that are free to users.
It depends on the license. LibreChat and AnythingLLM are MIT-licensed and allow it. Open WebUI requires its branding to stay for deployments above 50 users in a 30-day period unless you hold an enterprise license, and Dify's license restricts removing its logo and running a multi-tenant service. See our self-hosted ChatGPT alternatives guide.
No. Your customers pay you through your own Stripe, PayPal or other gateway accounts, and you keep all of the revenue on every plan. You pay for the Aikeedo license plus your own hosting and AI provider costs.
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