AI assistants and search
OpenAssistantGPT alternatives
3 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
OpenAssistantGPT/OpenAssistantGPTthe vendor’s own source★426 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceA Community Open-Source Saas for Crafting/Building/Creating Chatbots with OpenAI's Assistant API that you can add to your website.Open on GitHub ↗QuivrHQ/quivr★39,392 GitHub starslicence unclearOpinionated RAG platform for ingesting files, building embeddings, and querying via multiple vector stores.Open on GitHub ↗arc53/DocsGPT★18,199 GitHub starsMIT licencePrivate AI platform for document analysis, agent building, enterprise search, and multi-model integrations.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Hosted multi-tenant SaaS operations, uptime SLA and scaling
- Enterprise features such as SAML/SSO and SLA guarantees
- Polished UI, whitelabeling and analytics as provided by the vendor
- Company-provided support, onboarding and managed backups
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches OpenAssistantGPT, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.



