Run open-source LLMs locally on your own machine
- Stars
- 184.1k
- Growth
- +2.6k
- Launched
- Jun 2023
MITupdated today
R.I.P.Open-source alternatives to ChatGPT
10 projects replace ChatGPT, the AI assistant. 8 shipped code in the last 30 days.
ChatGPT sells monthly plans, and its business plans charge per seat. Conversations sit on OpenAI's servers, and companies worry about staff pasting customer data into them. Others want to compare models from several labs side by side, or run a model on their own hardware with no internet connection.
Open WebUI and LibreChat give a team a ChatGPT-style interface on its own server, connected to OpenAI, Anthropic, local models or all of them. Jan and Cherry Studio are desktop apps for one person. Ollama runs open models locally, and most of these interfaces can use it as a backend. AnythingLLM is built around chatting with your own documents.
10 open-source alternatives
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One interface for every AI model you run or connect
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- 156.3k
- Growth
- +3.6k
- Launched
- Oct 2023
Custom licenseupdated today
Manage, build, and run AI agent teams around the clock
- Stars
- 83.4k
- Growth
- +672
- Launched
- May 2023
Custom licenseupdated today
Chat with your documents using any LLM, fully private
- Stars
- 67.4k
- Growth
- +1.1k
- Launched
- Jun 2023
MITupdated today
Multi-model AI desktop client with local-first privacy
- Stars
- 52.8k
- Growth
- +755
- Launched
- May 2024
AGPL-3.0updated today
One interface for all your AI models and conversations
- Stars
- 46.1k
- Growth
- +1.6k
- Launched
- Feb 2023
MITupdated today
Run AI models locally or connect to cloud, privately
- Stars
- 45k
- Growth
- +443
- Launched
- Aug 2023
Custom licenseupdated today
AI second brain for research, automation, and personal agents
- Stars
- 37.8k
- Growth
- +319
- Launched
- Aug 2021
AGPL-3.0updated 2mo ago
AI-powered answer engine with dynamic interface generation
- Stars
- 9.2k
- Growth
- +48
- Launched
- Apr 2024
Apache-2.0updated today
Smart desktop AI assistant with powerful local knowledge features
- Stars
- 5.4k
- Growth
- +17
- Launched
- Jan 2024
Custom licenseupdated 1mo ago
What you give up by leaving ChatGPT
The honest part. Free and open usually costs something else.
- Local models are weaker Models that fit on a laptop still trail the frontier models on reasoning and long answers.
- Fewer built-in tools Image generation, voice mode and deep research come built into ChatGPT and need extra pieces elsewhere.
- Hardware costs Running good models locally needs a recent GPU or a Mac with plenty of memory.
- Weak phone apps Most open-source chat interfaces are web or desktop first, with basic or no phone apps.
