Self-hosted tools
Self-hosted software runs on a server or computer you control instead of a company’s cloud service. This page lists 58 self-hosted tools; the latest additions are NiubiGEO, NVKE and Kairos. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- xiaozhi-esp32 build a talking AI voice assistant on a small ESP32 board
Flash firmware onto an ESP32 board and talk to an AI that can answer and control lights or servos.
- ai-memory Let coding agents hand off memory to each other across tools
ai-memory is a self-hosted memory server that lets more than twenty different coding-agent tools — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and others — share one memory instead of each keeping its own that vanishes when you switch tools.
- NiubiGEO Check how AI models describe your brand and competitors
Enter a domain to see how AI models describe your product and which competitors they name.
- r2d2-tv Add a voice assistant and private browser to webOS TVs
Add a local home screen, private browser and push-to-talk voice commands to a rooted webOS TV.
- Hister Search the full text of every page you visited and file you keep
A private search engine for your own material.
- Unlimited-OCR Read text from page images and whole PDFs in one pass
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- Coder Run development environments, and coding agents, on your own servers
A self-hosted platform that gives each developer a workspace running on infrastructure you control — a cloud virtual machine, a Kubernetes pod, a Docker container — described in Terraform so the setup is written down rather than assembled by hand.
- Coolify Deploy apps and databases on your own servers
Put websites, apps and databases online using servers you control, for developers who want a Heroku- or Vercel-style dashboard on their own hardware.
- OpenBot Run AI coworkers with their own browser and files
Give an AI coworker a job, connect the tools it needs and watch it work.
- project-nomad Run offline Wikipedia, books, and AI chat with no internet
Project NOMAD turns a small computer into a self-contained library and AI assistant that works with no internet connection: offline Wikipedia and reference books, Khan Academy-style courses with progress tracking, downloadable regional maps, and a local AI chatbot you can hand your own documents to.
- NVKE Run managed Kubernetes clusters on your own NVIDIA GPU machines
Set up a service that creates and manages separate Kubernetes clusters on your own NVIDIA GPU servers.
- Rakazo Run a persistent AI teammate on your devices
Run an assistant with memory and browser, file, terminal, or desktop tools.
- ever-gauzy Run your company’s HR, sales and invoicing on your own server
An open business management platform that bundles the systems a small company normally buys separately: staff records and time tracking, a customer and sales pipeline, projects and tasks, invoicing and expenses, inventory, and an applicant tracking system for hiring.
- Experiential Route AI model requests through one controlled gateway
Send requests to hosted, your-own-key, or local AI models through one gateway.
- prompts.chat Find and share ready-made prompts for AI chatbots
Browse and copy community prompts that work with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others.
- Kairos Score sign-ups and payments for fraud risk in real time
Send sign-ups, logins, orders and payouts and get an approve, step up, review or block decision with reasons.
- Fleetbase Run dispatch, tracking and warehousing on software you own
A modular operating system for logistics: dispatching jobs, managing a fleet, tracking vehicles live on a map, warehousing, order management and the finance around it, all in one platform you can host yourself.
- Postiz Schedule and analyze social media posts in one place
Postiz lets you schedule social media posts, track how they perform, and work with teammates, for marketers and creators who manage several channels.
- RAGFlow Ask questions about your documents and get cited answers
Upload documents and ask questions with traceable citations.
- Concat Edit videos with auto captions and AI voices offline
Cut videos and add auto captions, voices and effects on your own computer.
- Hyperswitch An open-source payments platform you can self-host
A modular, open-source payments infrastructure written in Rust: connect to multiple payment, payout, fraud, vault, and tokenization providers through one integration instead of one per provider.
- Open Notebook Chat with, search and make podcasts from research
Collect PDFs, videos and web pages, then search, chat and make podcasts from them.
- LibreChat Host one chat interface in front of every model you use
A self-hosted chat application that puts a single interface in front of many model providers at once — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS, DeepSeek and others — so switching models does not mean switching product.
- browser Load and control web pages for AI agents with less memory
Open web pages without a screen, turn them into markdown or data, and drive them from scripts or an AI agent.
- DeskcommCRM Run a WhatsApp sales CRM with AI agents on your own server
A self-hosted customer relationship system built around WhatsApp, with AI agents that answer, qualify and follow up on conversations inside it.
- OpenMausBot Chat with a team of AI bots that use computers
Chat with a roster of AI bots that each have their own model, computer and apps, and approve risky actions.
- Multica Put AI coding agents on the same kanban board as your team
Multica is a project-management workspace where AI coding agents get assigned issues the same way a human teammate would: they pick up the work, comment on progress, raise blockers, and hand it back for review, all visible on the same board as your human team.
- n8n Wire AI agents into 1,500 apps on a visual canvas
A platform for building automations and AI agents by dragging steps onto a canvas and connecting them, with the option to drop into JavaScript or Python for the parts a visual editor handles badly.
- Nasiko Put one gateway in front of every AI agent you run
Nasiko is a self-hosted control-plane server that sits in front of every AI agent you run and handles the operational questions that pile up once you have more than a couple: which agent is allowed to call which other agent, what did that call cost, and why did it fail.
- Auto-Ontology Give AI agents checked business meanings for your database
Help AI agents answer questions about company databases using reviewed definitions and SQL, with each answer showing its steps.
- OpenStock Track share prices and set your own alerts, self-hosted
A stock market tracking application you host yourself: live prices, personalised alerts and company detail pages, built as an open alternative to subscription market platforms.
- OpenBao A community-run vault for your secrets, keys, and certificates
Keep passwords, API keys and certificates in one encrypted store on your own servers, and control who can use each one.
- OpenClaw Chat with an AI assistant that runs on your own devices
OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own computer and talks to you through the apps you already use — WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, Telegram, Slack and twenty-plus others, with native apps for every platform.
- Atlas Keep the reasoning behind every commit an agent makes
A desktop app that treats agent sessions as something worth version-controlling.
- Paperless-ngx Turn paper piles into a searchable document archive
Scan or upload bills, receipts and contracts and turn them into an archive you can search by any word inside them.
- new-api Manage team access to AI models through one gateway
New API gives developers and teams one place to connect model providers, route requests, control access, and track costs.
- Flowsint Map an investigation as a graph of people, accounts and links
An open-source tool for open-source intelligence work: you build up an investigation as a visual graph, adding entities and the relationships between them, and extending it with your own collectors as you go.
- RustDesk Control another computer remotely without a company in between
A remote desktop application written in Rust that works out of the box with no configuration, as an open alternative to commercial tools like TeamViewer and AnyDesk.
- RustFS Run S3-compatible object storage you host yourself, in Rust
A distributed object storage system written in Rust, offering broad compatibility with Amazon S3’s interface so tools and applications that already speak S3 can point at it instead.
- Alexandrie host your own offline-ready notes wiki, like a private Notion
Write, organize, search and share Markdown notes on your own server, from any device and even offline.
- Stirling-PDF Edit, sign, and convert PDFs without uploading them anywhere
Stirling PDF is a toolbox of 50+ PDF tools: edit, merge, split, sign, redact (permanently black out text), convert, compress, and OCR (turn scanned pages into searchable text).
- Supabase Get a Postgres database with auth and APIs already wired up
A development platform built around Postgres, the long-established open-source database.
- Treg Give an AI agent pay-per-call access to thousands of paid tools
Treg is a marketplace and proxy for AI-agent tools such as SEO data, company lookups, scraping and image generation, with over 3,000 endpoints across 60-plus providers.
- FreeLLMAPI Combine many AI providers' free tiers behind one address
Send AI requests to one local server that routes across many providers' free tiers, for developers and coding-agent users who want to stack free quotas.
- Octop Run a private AI assistant with a team of specialized agents for your household
Octop is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs entirely on your own machine and gives each person in a household or small team their own set of specialized agents to switch between — one for weekly reports, one for scheduling, and so on — while keeping every conversation and credential local.
- TencentDB-Agent-Memory Share reusable memory across agents
Share conversation memories, skills, documents, and code maps with AI agents.
- OpenMAIC Turn any topic into an interactive AI classroom
Turn a topic or document into slides, quizzes and discussions led by AI teachers.
- ai-goofish-monitor Watch Xianyu listings and get alerts on good finds
Track Xianyu listings by keyword and price, let an AI model judge each item, and get notified about good matches.
- Strix Test app vulnerabilities and get repair guidance
Test running apps for security flaws with this tool for developers and security teams, producing exploit evidence and repair guidance.
- router Let your coding agent pick an AI model for each request
Weave Router sits between a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, opencode, pi or Cursor) and the AI providers, and picks a model from your enabled providers for each request.
- XERJ Let your coding assistant search your files instead of reading them all
Let an AI coding assistant search your code, docs, logs and PDFs locally for the exact passage it needs.
- WebCodex Let ChatGPT or Claude edit code on your own computer
WebCodex connects cloud-based AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Claude to a real development environment running on your own machine, so you can ask them to inspect a repository, modify code, run tests, use Git, or investigate a failure without moving your project into a hosted workspace first.
- Unlimited-OCR Download and run the Baidu OCR model on page images and PDFs
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- flux-3-image-klein Generate and edit images (5.6B)
Create or edit pictures from written requests with this open weights image model, for developers building image tools.
- LFM2.5-24B-A2B Run a tool-using reasoning agent on your own device (24B)
Run an AI that thinks step by step and calls tools, on a laptop or your own server.
- MOSS-Image-SFT Generate images with text and objects placed where you say
Turn a written prompt or a JSON layout into an image, with control over where text and objects go.
- Qwen3.8-27B Run a 27B model that reads images and video yourself
Run a 27-billion-parameter model that reads text, images and video and writes text back, on hardware you control.
- Flint Fix bugs and write tests with a coding agent (39.8B)
Let an AI model investigate code, fix bugs, add features and write tests, for developers who host their own coding agents.
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