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Guru 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
labring/FastGPT★29,283 GitHub starslicence unclearKnowledge-based platform offering RAG retrieval, data processing, and deployable question-answering workflows.Open on GitHub ↗outline/outline★40,023 GitHub starslicence unclearRealtime collaborative team knowledge base with markdown support and searchable documentation.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance posture and attestation
- 100+ out-of-the-box connectors and maintained integrations
- Enterprise-grade governance & auditing (centralized policy enforcement, formal audit trails)
- Vendor-provided KM strategy, onboarding, and ongoing optimization services
- Built-in DLP masking, SCIM/SSO integrations, and formally supported permission inheritance
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Guru, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.