Tools tagged with "RAG"

SurfSense is an open-source NotebookLM alternative that turns documents into cited answers and editable deliverables on your computer. It's a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, aimed at people working with confidential files, research or study material. You don't need an account.

Mastra is a TypeScript framework for developers building AI agents and applications on their own servers or inside existing web apps. Its server runs locally or as a standalone deployment; Mastra Cloud provides a hosted alternative. Model routing connects to providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini, so running the framework locally doesn't keep those model requests on your machine.

AnythingLLM is an open source AI assistant for people who want to chat with their documents and use AI agents on their own hardware. The desktop app runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, while a Docker deployment supports multiple users on a self-hosted server. No account is required for the desktop app.

Langflow is a visual builder for developers creating AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. You can run it locally or on your own server, with Docker support and desktop apps for Windows and macOS. The open-source software uses the MIT license. A hosted cloud offering provides a separate deployment option.

Onyx is an AI search and chat platform for teams whose information is spread across workplace apps. It indexes company knowledge so employees can ask questions across sources and get answers grounded in relevant documents. Teams can deploy it in their own cloud or on bare metal, including an air-gapped environment.

Qdrant is a self-hosted vector database for developers building semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendations and AI agent memory. It stores embeddings alongside JSON metadata, so applications can find similar content while restricting results by attributes such as location, text or numeric ranges. The Rust engine is open source under Apache 2.0 and runs locally in Docker or on your own servers.

GPT Researcher is a self-hosted AI research agent for people who need detailed, cited reports drawn from the web, their own documents, or both. You choose the language model and search provider, and can run the software on your own server or through Docker. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

LightRAG combines knowledge graphs with vector search to answer questions across a document collection. It's a self-hosted Python framework for developers building document assistants, particularly where answers depend on relationships between facts in different files, such as legal or financial material.

Dify is a source-available platform for teams building AI agents and apps on a visual canvas. Its Community Edition runs on your own server with Docker. Dify also offers a hosted cloud service, while Enterprise deployments can run in a VPC or on a self-hosted server. The Community Edition uses a custom Apache 2.0 derivative license.

Agno is a Python framework and runtime for developers building customer-facing or internal AI agents. You can run its agent platform locally with Docker, on your own servers or in your cloud. The open-source framework uses the Apache 2.0 license, and the platform keeps sessions, memory, knowledge and traces in your database.

RAGFlow is an Apache 2.0 licensed RAG engine for teams building AI agents that need to answer questions from their own documents. It can run on a self-hosted server through Docker on Windows, macOS or Linux. A separate hosted cloud service is available.

Noema is a private local AI assistant for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. It's for people who want to chat with models and work with their own files on Apple hardware without depending on a cloud service. Local chats can stay on your device, and file retrieval runs there too.

Open Notebook is a self-hosted alternative to Google's NotebookLM for researchers, students, and professionals who want AI help with their own research materials. It runs locally or on your server through Docker and is open source under the MIT license. You choose which content the AI can access and which provider processes it.

LM Studio is a desktop application for downloading and running language models on macOS, Windows and Linux. You can search for models, manage downloads and chat with them through the app. Downloaded models can run offline, including document chat that uses files on your computer.

Context7 brings current library documentation and code examples into an AI coding assistant's context. It's for developers who want answers grounded in the libraries and versions they're actually using, rather than an assistant's older training data. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin Desktop and Antigravity.

Cherry Studio is a free, open source desktop app for people who use several AI models and want their conversations in one place. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Chats, settings and knowledge base files are stored on your device.

n8n lets technical teams build AI agents and business workflows in a visual editor, then add JavaScript or Python where they need more control. Each step shows its inputs and outputs, so teams can inspect how an agent reached a decision and what happened next.

Screenpipe records screen activity and audio as searchable local history that AI agents can use as context. It's for people who want to recall past work and teams that want agents to draft follow-ups or update work records using what actually happened. Raw history stays on your device by default.

LocalAI runs language models, speech, vision and image generation on hardware you control. It's for developers and teams that want a self-hosted AI server for their apps without sending model requests to a cloud service. Its OpenAI-compatible API works with existing clients, and it also accepts Anthropic, Ollama and ElevenLabs API calls.

Off Grid AI runs language models on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux. You can chat, analyze documents and generate images on your own hardware. The mobile app uses the MIT license, while the desktop app uses AGPL.

ScribeDog is a Markdown editor for writers and note-takers who want AI assistance while keeping their documents on their own hardware. It displays formatted text, tables and images instead of Markdown syntax, but saves ordinary .md files that work with Git and other editors. It has a native desktop app and a self-hosted Server Edition available through Docker.

RecurseChat is a paid Mac app for people who want to chat with AI and ask questions about their files on their own computer. It runs local LLMs without an internet connection or a server, keeping local conversations on the device. The same app also connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so you can choose local processing or a cloud provider.

Bisheng is an open source, self-hosted platform for teams building AI applications around business documents and processes. Its visual workflow editor combines automated tasks with human feedback, including intervention during multi-turn conversations. It's suited to document review, support ticket assistance and report generation that need more control than a single chatbot exchange.

Perfect Memory AI keeps a searchable record of what you've seen on your screen and heard in meetings on Mac and Windows. It's for people who need to find a page, presentation or conversation again without remembering which app held it. Recordings stay on your device, and search returns material you've actually seen or heard.

OpenAgent is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that combines document search with agents that can act on your behalf. It's for people who want an assistant on their own computer or server, and teams building agents around their documents and workflows. It runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux as a single executable. It's free and open source under Apache 2.0.

h2oGPT is a self-hosted ChatGPT alternative for people who want to chat with local models and ask questions about their own documents. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It's open source under Apache 2.0, with support for Linux, macOS, Windows and Docker.

Reor is a local AI note-taking app for people who want to search their own writing, find connections between ideas and ask questions about their notes. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and it's open source under AGPL-3.0.

QAnything is a self-hosted knowledge base for people and teams who want to ask questions about their own documents, including collections that mix Chinese and English. It can answer in either language regardless of the document's language, and runs locally through Docker on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Lumos is a Chrome extension for asking questions about web pages using models running on your own machine. It's for readers working through long discussions, product reviews, news articles or technical documentation who want summaries and answers tied to the material they're reading. Ollama handles inference locally, without a remote AI server.

Verba is a self-hosted document chatbot for people who want to ask questions across their files and knowledge bases. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It uses Weaviate to find relevant passages and gives those passages to a language model to generate answers.

Zep Community Edition v1.0.2 is a deprecated, unsupported self-hosted memory service for developers building AI agents and conversational assistants. This legacy edition uses the Apache 2.0 license. It turns chat history into a knowledge graph that records how facts change over time, so an assistant can distinguish a user's current preferences from earlier ones.

RAGapp is a self-hosted app for teams that want an AI assistant using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on their own infrastructure. It pairs a browser chat interface with an admin interface for configuring the assistant, taking an approach similar to OpenAI's custom GPTs. It's open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

MindSearch is a self-hosted AI search framework for people who want to build their own Perplexity-style answer engine. Multiple LLM agents search and read web pages to produce answers with a visible research process. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

Scira is an AI search engine for people who want answers backed by sources and control over the application they use for research. It has a hosted website, and you can self-host the open-source application under AGPL-3.0. Its live search relies on internet access and external services; self-hosting doesn't make that research offline.

STORM is an MIT-licensed, open-source research tool from Stanford OVAL that turns a topic into a Wikipedia-style report with citations. You can run its Python software on your own machine or host it on a server; Stanford also offers a hosted research preview. It's aimed at people gathering background material and writers preparing an article draft.

Morphic is a self-hosted AI search engine for people who want answers backed by web sources and control over the search interface they use. It combines web searches and URL reading with AI-generated responses, so you can examine the sources behind an answer. It's open source under Apache 2.0, and you can run your own instance with Docker or use the hosted website.