AI assistants and search
Wholana 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
arc53/DocsGPT★18,198 GitHub starsMIT licencePrivate AI platform for agents, assistants, and enterprise search with document analysis and RAG features.Open on GitHub ↗dzhng/deep-research★19,496 GitHub starsMIT licenceAI-powered research assistant that iteratively combines web search, scraping, and LLMs for deep topic research.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- The daily, large-scale Egyptian-TikTok sweep and breadth of the proprietary corpus
- Built-in MCP server integration for ChatGPT / Claude as a workspace feature
- Multi-seat workspace collaboration, live co-editing and seat-based billing
- WhatsApp intake and mobile-first sharing flows out of the box
- Scale reliability and continuous outlier-scoring on a growing corpus
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Wholana, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.