Self-Hosted AI Search and Deep Research

DeepTutor is a self-hosted AI tutor for learners who want to study their own materials through a browser or CLI. It supports Docker deployment and uses configured model providers for its AI capabilities. Hosting the app locally is separate from model inference; requests to a remote provider leave the host.

Agent Reach gives AI agents access to online content for research, repository work and social media searches. It's for people using Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cursor, Windsurf or another agent that can run shell commands.

Docmost is a self-hosted team wiki with collaborative editing, spaces, page history, attachments and access permissions. Teams can run the wiki on their own servers or use managed hosting. Its core is AGPL-3.0 licensed; AI search and chat require a separate commercial license.

Research Agent is a free, MIT-licensed, open source AI agent that combines online research with documents on your machine. It's for people investigating technical topics or comparing papers who want cited reports and a choice of local or cloud models. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a browser dashboard and a command-line interface for automation.

AutoAgent lets people create AI agents by describing the work they want done. It's for users who want custom agents without writing the agent code themselves, or a ready-made research assistant for gathering information and producing reports.

Morphic is an AI search engine for people who want answers they can check against web sources. It searches the web and reads URLs to gather information for a question.

Edit Mind is a self-hosted AI video knowledge base for editors, creators and people with large footage archives. It helps you find a moment by what someone says or what appears on screen, without remembering the filename. The self-hosted project isn't production-ready and may have incomplete features or bugs.

Automated AI Web Researcher investigates a topic using a locally running LLM. It's for people who want to delegate web searches and keep the collected material for review, rather than gather each page themselves.

PraisonAI is a Python framework for developers building AI agents that research, write code, or carry out tasks across apps. It supports single agents and coordinated teams for work that needs several steps or specialist roles.

Stella is a legal workspace for law firms and legal teams that want matter files, contract review and research in one place. Its AI agent answers questions about a matter with citations that open the relevant source passage.

DocsGPT helps teams search company documents and build AI assistants that answer from those materials. It can run inside your network with local models, including an air-gapped deployment where documents and questions stay within that network.

PapersGPT is an AI research assistant inside Zotero for researchers working through a paper library. It helps answer questions across saved research and turn findings into notes with citations back to the papers.

Sidekick is a native macOS app for people who want AI answers grounded in their documents and research materials. Its built-in llama.cpp engine runs GGUF models such as Qwen3.5 without a separate model runner.

Revornix is an AI knowledge workspace for people who collect articles, research papers and recordings and want to ask questions across their library. It connects saved material in a personal knowledge graph and uses those relationships to inform its answers.

SapienAI is an academic chatbot and research workspace for researchers who want to keep source material, writing and AI conversations together. Research spaces group project documents, notes and drafts so the AI can answer questions using uploaded material.

PandaWiki is a self-hosted knowledge base for teams publishing product guides, technical documentation, FAQs, or blogs. It gives readers AI-assisted ways to find answers within those documents.

Phantasm is an iPhone AI chat app for people who want to use models running on their own machines. The phone provides the chat interface, while a backend you control handles inference.

MemFree is an open-source AI search tool that answers questions using both your own knowledge base and the internet. It's for people who want to search saved documents, bookmarks and web content together, with AI summaries instead of reading each result separately. You can self-host it or use the hosted website.

XERJ is a local search engine for developers building AI agents that need to retrieve code, documents or stored knowledge without reading whole files into their context. It runs on a laptop or self-hosted server.

AIPOCH Open-Science is a desktop AI research workbench for scientists who want to keep investigations, analysis and supporting evidence in one project. Its agents work with research files and executable tools to produce outputs you can inspect alongside the records behind them.

AI-Researcher automates research tasks for researchers who want to develop an idea into code, experiments and an academic manuscript. It can start with a detailed proposal or use reference papers to suggest a research direction.

Mattermost Agents adds AI assistants to a Mattermost workspace for teams working through long discussions and meeting recordings. Teams can use models on their own infrastructure or connect to a cloud provider.

AutoFlow is a conversational knowledge base for teams that want visitors to ask questions about their product or documentation. It uses Graph RAG, which combines knowledge graphs with retrieval of relevant content for AI answers.

data-to-paper is an open-source Python framework for researchers who want AI agents to work through a dataset and draft a scientific paper whose numerical claims they can check. Its defining feature is traceability: readers can click a value in the manuscript and follow it back to the specific analysis code that produced it.

Lemon AI is a local AI agent for people who want to research topics, write code and analyze data on their own hardware. It also lets you revise generated HTML reports and pages without asking the agent to recreate the whole result.

10xProductivity extends a coding agent into a personal assistant for work that spans messages, tickets and documents. It's aimed at people working within company restrictions on new automation platforms, using the accounts and permissions they already have.

Deep Research is a self-hosted AI agent for people who want web research with traceable evidence and a library they control. It runs in Docker on your own machine or server, searches the web in successive rounds, and uses gaps in its findings to decide what to investigate next. Reports include citations, per-source notes with quoted evidence, and suggested follow-ups.

Perfect Memory AI keeps a searchable record of screen activity and meetings on Mac and Windows. It's for people who want to recover a page, presentation or conversation without remembering which app contained it.

Khoj is a personal AI assistant for people who want answers from their files and the web. It also supports custom agents and recurring research tasks.

The AI Scientist is a self-hosted AI agent for researchers studying questions they can test through code. It generates research ideas, runs experiments, produces plots and writes scientific papers. Its scope is computational research.

QMD searches Markdown notes, meeting transcripts, documentation and knowledge bases on your own machine. It's for people who want to find material by its wording or meaning, and make that search available to an AI agent.

Vibe-Research is a local financial research workbench for individual investors, with a Chinese-language browser interface and backend on your computer. It saves documents, research records and task state locally, while subscription services or model APIs supply AI reasoning. Relevant document passages go to the selected model, so local storage doesn't make the workflow offline.

SemanticFinder helps readers and researchers find passages by meaning in long documents. It runs the search model in your browser, so you can search your own text without sending it to a model server.

Kelivo is an LLM chat client for people who want local and cloud models in one app while keeping conversation history on their device. It connects to Ollama, self-hosted OpenAI-compatible services and providers including OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and OpenRouter.