AI assistants and search
Claude 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
openclaw/openclaw★385,405 GitHub starslicence unclearA cross-platform personal AI assistant application providing chat, agents, and integrations for end users.Open on GitHub ↗arc53/DocsGPT★18,198 GitHub starsMIT licencePrivate AI platform for assistants, agents, document analysis, and enterprise search with built-in UI.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Managed model updates and new model access cadence
- Enterprise-grade safety tuning and monitoring
- Built-in connectors (vetted integrations) and hosted Workbench
- BAA/HIPAA-ready managed configuration unless negotiated with Anthropic
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Claude, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.