AI assistants and search
Chatwith 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
arc53/DocsGPT★18,199 GitHub starsMIT licencePrivate AI platform for agents, assistants, and enterprise document search and analysis.Open on GitHub ↗johnbean393/Sidekick★3,302 GitHub starsMIT licenceNative macOS app to chat with a local LLM using files, folders, and websites on your Mac.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Polished multi-tenant white-label dashboard and client portal
- Large catalogue of prebuilt integrations and no-code action connectors
- Usage-based billing, subscription management, and UX polish
- Hosted scale, SLA, and battle-tested abuse guardrails
- Built-in multilingual tuning, analytics charts, and automated daily retrain flows
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Chatwith, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.