AI assistants and search
ChatGPT Toolbox alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
QuivrHQ/quivr★39,394 GitHub starslicence unclearWeb app for document-focused RAG with UI, prompt templates, vectorstores, and multiple LLM backends.Open on GitHub ↗HKUDS/nanobot★46,787 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted personal AI agent with a lightweight WebUI, chat apps, tools, memory, and multi-agent workflows.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Proprietary UI polish and branded UX
- Vendor-supplied integrations and managed billing
- Commercial support and updates
- Any closed-source plugins or proprietary data the vendor may provide
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches ChatGPT Toolbox, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.