Self-Hosted AI Search and Deep Research

File Brain is a desktop search app for people who remember a document's subject but can't recall its name or location. You can describe what you're looking for and search the contents of files on your computer.

Vane is a self-hosted AI search engine for people who want answers backed by sources they can check. It combines web research with a choice of local or cloud models and saves search history locally.

ChuanhuChatGPT is a self-hosted web interface for people who want to chat with local LLMs and cloud models in one application. It also supports document questions and automated agent tasks.

Obsidian Copilot is an AI plugin for writers and researchers who want to work with the notes already in their vault. Its agents can find relevant material, draft notes and organize research inside Obsidian.

II Agent is an AI agent for developers and teams who want an assistant to carry out research, build applications and handle documents. It can act through a browser, shell and files to complete tasks that need several steps.

Siftly helps people with large Twitter/X bookmark collections find saved posts and organize them by topic. It runs on your own machine, with AI processing handled by the endpoint you choose.

Open Assistant is a self-hosted personal AI assistant for people who want it to act on their email, calendar, files, and notes. It runs in a single Docker container with a browser interface. A coordinator assigns requests to specialist agents, so a conversation can lead to finding an invoice, scheduling a meeting, or researching a topic.

OWL is a Python framework built on CAMEL-AI for developers who want multiple AI agents to work together on tasks. It combines research, file analysis, and actions in a browser or terminal within one task workflow.

ChatDev is a self-hosted AI agent platform for people building research, data analysis and software workflows. Its DevAll application runs the workflow backend on your computer or server, with a browser console for designing and overseeing agent teams. Model access uses your chosen provider's API credentials and endpoint; choosing a cloud provider sends model requests to that service.

OpenFang runs recurring AI tasks on your own machine and reports their results to a desktop dashboard. It's for people who want research, monitoring or business automation to continue on a schedule without starting each job in chat.

FinRobot is an Apache 2.0 open-source equity research system for analysts and quantitative researchers. Its desktop app runs financial calculations locally and uses an LLM to interpret results and write reports. Built-in OpenAI and Anthropic connections send model requests to those providers; custom OpenAI-compatible connections can use a local vLLM backend. Research also needs external market data.

Open Glean is a self-hosted AI workspace for searching files, notes, saved webpages and knowledge synced through Hydra DB connectors. Its browser app runs on your machine or server, including in Docker, but retrieval uses the remote Hydra DB API by default and requires a Hydra key. You can change the Hydra backend endpoint. Local answer models require explicit enablement and are disabled by default.

Labaik is a desktop AI workspace for people who use chat models for writing, research and coding. It brings local and cloud models into the same conversation interface, with model switching during a chat.

Odysseus brings AI chat, autonomous agents and personal work into one workspace on your own hardware. It's for people who want models to work with their documents and ongoing tasks in a self-hosted app.

AgenticSeek is a local alternative to Manus AI for people who want an assistant to carry out research, coding and file tasks on their own hardware. It can break a request into steps and assign the work to specialized agents.

Claw-Empire is a self-hosted AI agent manager for people who want to delegate projects to multiple coding assistants. Its pixel-art office shows agents working across departments, while a shared dashboard tracks their tasks.

Scira is an AI search engine for researching questions across live sources and checking the evidence behind an answer. You can self-host the application, but live research needs internet access and external services.

Aiden is a local AI agent for people who want help carrying out coding, research, and file management tasks. It plans multi-step work and keeps records you can inspect to check what happened and whether the result meets the goal.

Nanobrowser is a browser AI agent for people who want to delegate repetitive web tasks and research. It carries out actions inside the browser while letting you choose the models that handle the work.

OpenBrowserAgent is an installed browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Safari that combines page-focused chat with browser automation. It connects to local Ollama endpoints or model APIs you configure. Requests send selected browser context and messages to that endpoint; a remote model connection sends that material outside the browser.

Local Deep Research is a self-hosted AI research assistant for people investigating complex questions across web sources, academic papers and their own documents. It gathers evidence and writes reports with citations.

Joplin Jarvis is an AI assistant for people who keep their research and writing in Joplin. It uses your notes as context for conversations and helps you find related material or annotate your collection.

Onyx is an AI search and chat platform for teams with information scattered across workplace apps. It gives employees and AI agents answers grounded in company documents.

SuperClaude is a configuration framework for developers who want predefined workflows in Claude Code. It adds task-specific commands and specialist agents for planning software, writing code and reviewing the results.

arxiv-mcp-server gives AI assistants tools to find and study arXiv papers. It's for researchers who want an assistant to inspect specific sections and work with a locally stored paper library.

SolidGPT is an AI search assistant for developers, available as a VS Code extension or a self-hosted server with a browser interface. The application can run on your machine or server, but its AI processing uses OpenAI's cloud API. It needs an API key and an internet connection, so hosting it yourself doesn't make model inference local.

Eidon AI is a self-hosted AI assistant for people who want everyday chat and agents that can carry out longer tasks on their own computer or server. A Chief of Staff agent answers directly, delegates work to specialists, or creates an agent for a task. Agents can message each other and keep working on a schedule.

OpenRAG is a self-hosted platform for searching documents and asking questions about them through an AI chat interface. It brings Langflow, OpenSearch, and Docling together for developers and teams that want a document knowledge base with control over its retrieval workflows. It's open source under Apache 2.0 and supports self-managed deployment with Docker or Podman.

Karakeep is a bookmark manager for people collecting articles, notes, images and PDFs for later use. It keeps saved material searchable and can preserve pages after their original links disappear.

Vibe-Trading is an installed Python research app with terminal and web interfaces for traders and analysts testing strategies or reviewing trades. The workspace runs on your machine, but its AI requests go to OpenRouter by default. Research also fetches external market data and web content.

Open Deep Research is a self-hosted AI agent that searches for information and writes research reports for teams that want to choose their models and tools. The project is archived and no longer maintained.