AI assistants and search
koala.fyi 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
swirlai/swirl-search★3,040 GitHub starsApache-2.0 licenceDeployable AI search and RAG platform to query company knowledge across many apps without moving data.Open on GitHub ↗arc53/DocsGPT★18,221 GitHub starsMIT licencePrivate AI platform for document analysis, agents, assistants, and enterprise search with API and multi-model support.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- hosted product polish and UI/UX iteration
- commercial support and SLAs
- any proprietary optimizations or hosted analytics the vendor might add
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches koala.fyi, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.