AnythingLLM is an all-in-one desktop and Docker app for chatting with documents using RAG, running AI agents, and connecting to local or hosted LLMs and vector databases.
65.3k stars7.2k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
6 self-hosted Swirl alternatives
Swirl is a hosted AI search assistant that unifies search across enterprise data sources via configurable connectors, builds embedding-based indexes, and returns retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG) answers to user queries.
Alternatives to Swirl
Open-source platform for AI chat, RAG, agents, and enterprise search across your team’s connected knowledge sources, compatible with hosted and local LLMs.
31.8k stars4.4k forkslast commit Actively maintained
Typesense is a developer-friendly search engine for instant, typo-tolerant search-as-you-type with faceting, filtering, geo search, and vector/semantic search APIs.
26.5k stars965 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Extension for Paperless‑ngx that uses OpenAI-compatible backends and Ollama to auto-classify, tag, index, and enable RAG-powered document chat and semantic search.
5.9k stars327 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
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Aleph indexes documents and structured datasets to enable fast search, entity extraction, and cross-referencing for investigative research and OSINT workflows.
2.4k stars358 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
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Amurex is an open-source AI copilot that unifies knowledge search across Notion, Drive and Obsidian, automates meetings, and triages email.
147 stars47 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down
What replacing Swirl actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 6 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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