AI assistants and search
CheapChat 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
songquanpeng/one-api★36,403 GitHub starsMIT licenceSingle-binary, Docker-ready LLM API management and redistribution system unifying multiple providers under one API.Open on GitHub ↗aingdesk/AingDesk★2,531 GitHub starsMIT licenceA simple web AI assistant with model API support, knowledge base, sharing, and chat-focused features.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Hosted access to many pre-integrated model endpoints (model catalogue shown on site)
- Integrated billing and hosted account management
- Operational reliability, SLAs and vendor-run safety/monitoring
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches CheapChat, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.