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CustomGPT vs Aikeedo

Quick take: Choose CustomGPT.ai if you want managed AI agents for your own company’s content. Choose Aikeedo if you want to sell that capability to your own customers, under your brand and pricing.

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What is Aikeedo?

Self-hosted, SaaS-ready software with full source code. You get a commercial license, install it on your server, connect AI providers with your API keys, and sell subscriptions to your customers — they use an AI Workspace that feels like ChatGPT, but it’s your product.

Step 1

Get the software

Commercial license with full source code included. Subscribe monthly or buy it outright.

commercial licensesource code

Step 2

Install it

Deploy on your own server or VPS. Use your domain, database, and SSL.

Self-hostedYour domain

Step 3

Plug in APIs

Add OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Ollama, and compatible APIs.

AI toolkitMulti-model

Step 4

Launch your SaaS

Run your own AI Workspace with billing, plans, users, and admin built in.

BillingAdmin
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Two different goals

CustomGPT.ai is a service you subscribe to for your own knowledge base. Aikeedo is software you run to offer AI products to customers of your own.

CustomGPT

A hosted, no-code platform for AI agents that answer from your business content, with citations, connectors and enterprise compliance.
Hosted agentsManaged RAGConnectorsSOC 2

Aikeedo

Self-hosted software for launching your own AI SaaS. Customers train chatbots and assistants on their own files and pages while you control plans and billing.
Self-hosted SaaSYour subscribersPlan controlsSource-code access
Audience

Who is each for?

Ask who the customer is. With CustomGPT.ai, your company is the customer. With Aikeedo, you sell to customers of your own.

CustomGPT is for...

Companies and institutions that want reliable answers from their own documents and websites, without running servers, and with compliance paperwork handled.
Support teamsKnowledge basesHosted serviceEnterprise

Aikeedo is for...

Founders, agencies and operators who want to sell AI chatbots and tools to their own customers, with pricing plans, credits, payment gateways and their own brand.
Platform ownersYour subscribersSelf-hostedYour brand
Ownership

Business model at a glance

The real difference is who owns the customer relationship and who sets the price.
 
CustomGPTCustomGPT
Aikeedo
Primary buyer intent
A business wants AI agents that answer from its own content, for its staff or its customers.
An operator wants to sell AI access, including chatbots trained on each customer’s own content, under their own brand.
Who pays whom?
You pay CustomGPT.ai monthly: Standard is $99 (10 agents, 1,000 queries), Premium is $499 (25 agents, 5,000 queries).
Your subscribers pay you. You pay hosting, AI APIs and the Aikeedo license; no revenue share to Aikeedo.
Hosting and ownership
Hosted by CustomGPT.ai. No source code; private deployment is an Enterprise option.
Self-hosted on your server and domain, with source-code access for customization.
Branding
Removing the “Powered by CustomGPT.ai” badge needs Premium. Its white-label page says billing pages and system emails stay CustomGPT-branded.
Your brand across the whole platform. You decide which of your plans can remove “Powered by” from chatbot widgets.
Reselling to your own clients
A reseller program runs through a partner agreement; its terms and prices are not published.
Built in: subscriptions, credits, top-ups and payment gateways to bill your own customers.
Usage limits
Query, agent, document and seat limits per plan; add-ons such as 2,500 extra queries for $375/month.
You set credits, model access and per-plan chatbot limits for your customers.
Pricing

Hosted pricing vs your pricing

CustomGPT.ai sells capacity by the agent and the query. Aikeedo lets you decide how your own customers pay.

CustomGPT pricing model

You pay a monthly plan with limits on agents, queries, documents and seats, plus add-ons for more of each. Branding removal starts on Premium.
Per-query limitsTiered plansAdd-onsEnterprise quotes

Aikeedo pricing model

You license and host the software, then set what your customers pay, how many chatbots each plan includes, and how credits work.
Your pricingYour limitsYour marginsYour customers
Side-by-side

Feature comparison

CustomGPT.ai is deeper on managed knowledge retrieval and compliance. Aikeedo gives you the platform to sell AI products of your own.

Fit guide

Pick based on whose knowledge base it is.

If the content is your own company’s and accuracy and compliance matter most, CustomGPT.ai is built for that. If you want many customers to each train their own chatbots and pay you, Aikeedo is built for that.
 
CustomGPTCustomGPT
Aikeedo
Answers grounded in your own content
Yes — managed RAG with citations on every answer.
Yes — Assistants and chatbot widgets retrieve from uploaded files and web pages.
Data sources and connectors
Yes — 1,400+ file types, websites, YouTube and podcasts; Google Drive, Notion, HubSpot, Zendesk, Confluence; SharePoint and auto-sync on Premium.
File uploads and web pages or links. No third-party connectors or automatic re-sync.
Embeddable website chatbot
Yes — embed widget, live chat and website copilot.
Yes — with the Chatbots add-on, subscribers embed a widget on their own sites with a JavaScript snippet.
Other channels
Share links and API; Slack, Teams, WhatsApp and Telegram through community-maintained integrations.
No — chatbots are website widgets today.
Developer access
Yes — REST API and SDK, an OpenAI-compatible API and an MCP server.
Yes — user and admin REST APIs with OpenAPI docs, plus full source code.
Model choice
GPT-4.1 on all plans; newer GPT, Claude and Gemini models are Enterprise only.
Any model you enable: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Ollama and OpenAI-compatible servers.
Your own provider API keys
Not listed on the public plans.
Yes — you connect your own provider keys; workspace-owner BYOK is optional.
Languages
Yes — 92 languages.
Yes — 30 interface languages, with AI translation in the admin.
Security and compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR; SSO and a data processing agreement on Enterprise.
Depends on your hosting and policies. Chatbot widgets support domain restrictions and JWT identity verification.
Conversation analytics
Yes — 7 days of history on Standard, full history on Premium.
Conversations and contacts in each subscriber’s inbox.
Broader AI tools for your customers
No — focused on knowledge agents.
Yes — chat, writer, image and video generation, voiceover and transcription in the same workspace.
Operations
Fully managed. No server, updates or scaling to handle.
You run the server. Updates install from the admin panel.
Use cases

What you can build with Aikeedo

Use Aikeedo as the foundation for your own AI product: workspace, billing, plans and admin are already there.

Chatbot SaaS

Let customers train website chatbots on their own files and pages, embed them, and pay you through the plans you define.

Agency client portal

Give each client a branded workspace for chatbots, assistants and AI tools instead of separate subscriptions per client.

Internal knowledge assistant

Run a self-hosted workspace where your team asks assistants trained on your own documents, on infrastructure you control.

Customized AI product

Use the source code and plugin system to adapt onboarding, packaging and features to your own market.

Frequently asked questions

CustomGPT vs Aikeedo

1.  Is Aikeedo a CustomGPT alternative?

For a different goal. CustomGPT.ai is a hosted service a business uses to answer questions from its own content. Aikeedo is software you install to run your own AI SaaS, where your customers train chatbots and assistants on their content and pay you for it.

2.  When should I choose CustomGPT?

Choose CustomGPT.ai when you need accurate answers from your own company’s content with no servers to run: managed RAG with citations, many connectors with auto-sync, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance already in place.

3.  When should I choose Aikeedo?

Choose Aikeedo when the business is yours to sell. Customers sign up on your domain, pay you through your plans and credits, and use chatbots, assistants and the other AI tools under your brand.

4.  Can I white-label it fully?

With Aikeedo, yes: the whole platform runs on your domain with your branding, and you decide which plans can remove “Powered by” from chatbot widgets. CustomGPT.ai removes its badge on Premium, but its white-label page says billing pages and system emails stay CustomGPT-branded.

5.  Who handles compliance?

CustomGPT.ai publishes SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliance for its hosted service. With Aikeedo you run the software, so compliance depends on your hosting, data retention and policies.

6.  How do the prices compare?

CustomGPT.ai is a monthly subscription with query, agent and document limits, from $99 to $499 a month before Enterprise. Aikeedo is a software license; the chatbot builder is the Chatbots add-on. What your customers pay is up to you. See pricing.

Ready to launch your own AI SaaS?

Self-host Aikeedo, add the Chatbots add-on, and sell AI chatbots and tools under your own brand.