AI assistants and search

Hana AI 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.

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The projects

khoj-ai/khoj36,519AGPL-3.0Self-hostable AI assistant that indexes docs, runs retrieval, and builds agents for searches and automations.Open on GitHub arc53/DocsGPT18,217MITPrivate AI platform for document analysis, retrieval-augmented agents, and enterprise search with connectors and APIs.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished, native Google Chat UX and edge-case handling for threaded conversations
Enterprise-grade admin controls, approvals, and source governance
Operational reliability, SLAs, and support from the vendor
Ongoing improvements, prompt engineering, and product polish
Built-in action library and pre-authored prompt examples

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Hana AI, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.