Sure, Perplexity Perplexity is awesome.

But have you considered these open source alternatives?

They are free, self-hostable and community-driven.

Check by yourself: Ollama  Open WebUI , 🤯  LobeChat , 🤖  AnythingLLM , Ⓟ  Perplexica .

  1. So is Ollama Open WebUI

    A user-friendly interface for AI chat

    ★ 61.6k llm ai rag chatbot License: MIT

    An extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners, including Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.

    Open WebUI Demo

  2. So is 🤯 LobeChat

    Open-source, modern-design AI chat framework

    ★ 52.3k llm ai rag chatbot License: Apache-2.0 (with a twist)

    An open-source, modern-design ChatGPT/LLMs UI/Framework that supports speech-synthesis, multi-modal, and extensible (function call) plugin system.

  3. So is 🤖 AnythingLLM

    The all-in-one AI app you were looking for

    ★ 27.8k llm ai rag chatbot License: MIT

    Turn any document, resource, or piece of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting.

    Chatting

  4. So is Ⓟ Perplexica

    AI-powered search engine

    ★ 18.5k llm ai chatbot License: MIT

    Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered searching tool or an AI-powered search engine that goes deep into the internet to find answers. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it's an open-source option that not just searches the web but understands your questions. It uses advanced machine learning algorithms like similarity searching and embeddings to refine results and provides clear answers with sources cited.

    preview