Support teams, IT departments, and researchers can put their own documents behind chatbots and AI agents built with MaxKB, an open-source platform that grounds answers in private knowledge. A support lead starts by uploading Markdown, DOCX, PDF, TXT, HTML, XLSX, XLS, or CSV files, or by syncing a web site, and MaxKB splits, vectorizes, and indexes the content on its own. An IT department can place the finished agent in any third-party site or internal tool with no coding, as a full-screen page, a mobile view, or a floating chat window. Researchers get replies that show, and let them download, the knowledge sources behind each answer. Simple agents pick tools, skills, and MCP connections from the question itself, while advanced agents are drawn as workflows with branching, multi-path recall, loops, and variables. Custom scripts, which AI can help write, plus schedules and event triggers extend what an agent can do. The model manager registers local models such as DeepSeek, Llama, and Qwen beside providers such as OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini, across language, embedding, reranking, vision, speech, and image generation. Conversation logs feed analysis for operations. Dozens of ready-made agent templates, knowledge base templates, tools, and skills in the template center and tool store shorten the first build. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Build, deploy, and monitor chatbots and LLM-powered agents on one open-source conversational AI platform: Botpress. Its Studio is a visual development environment: a drag-and-drop canvas arranges conversation logic with nodes for messages, questions, choices, and actions, while a built-in emulator simulates conversations for debugging before anything goes live. Agents ground their answers in a knowledge base assembled from uploaded documents, ingested websites, and past conversations via retrieval-augmented generation, and the LLM layer connects to multiple model providers - GPT-4, Claude, Mistral - with a configurable model strategy. An autonomous engine handles reasoning, tool orchestration, persistent memory across sessions, and sandboxed code execution, and custom code actions in TypeScript extend agents past prebuilt workflows. Over 100 integrations deploy the same bot to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and web chat, and connect it to HubSpot, Zendesk, Zapier, and arbitrary APIs and webhooks. Human handoff, conversation analytics, and quality monitoring cover production operation. Originating in 2017 from a Montreal team, the community edition is developed openly on GitHub.

big-AGI is an open-source generative AI workspace that provides a unified, local-first interface for orchestrating multi-model reasoning, automated code execution, and custom persona workflows across private infrastructure. Users query multiple large language models simultaneously through the Beam scatter-gather engine, which prompts independent AI systems in parallel, compares candidate completions side by side, and merges optimal passages into a single refined response. Knowledge workers assemble tailored AI personas equipped with specialized system instructions, custom temperature settings, and predefined document context to handle domain-specific tasks ranging from architectural design reviews to legal contract analysis. The application renders rich multimedia outputs including interactive Mermaid sequence diagrams, LaTeX mathematical formulas, syntax-highlighted code blocks with live execution previews, and AI-generated image generation canvases. Teams integrate local inference servers like Ollama and LocalAI alongside commercial API endpoints to route confidential datasets strictly through internal networks while monitoring per-prompt token usage and operational latency. Users attach complex PDF documents, spreadsheets, and source code repositories for automatic parsing and semantic retrieval, while local-first storage engines ensure private chat transcripts and custom presets remain encrypted on host drives. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Add a live support desk to any website with Live Helper Chat, where visitors talk to operators or bots and you own every transcript. Site owners paste a generated embed snippet into any page, and the start-chat fields are customizable. Chats are routed by department, language, location, or custom attributes, wait in a priority queue, and move between agents. Operators, departments, and simultaneous chats are unlimited. Agents watch a visitor type before the message is sent, read pages visited and time on site in the online visitors list, and send proactive invitations to people who linger. Voice, video, and screen sharing run through Jitsi or Agora, and a screenshot shows what the visitor sees. Bot designers chain triggers and actions in a visual builder, call ChatGPT, Gemini, Ollama, Rasa, or any REST API, and hand the conversation to a person when needed. Incoming email becomes tickets beside chats, and extensions connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Twilio SMS. Staff answer from the browser, a desktop app, a Chrome extension, or iOS and Android apps. Management tools include roles, groups, statistics, transcripts, and an archive, and extensions add two-factor login, LDAP, and single sign-on. It suits banks, healthcare teams, universities, and game studios that must keep chat data in house. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Evolution API gives your applications a production-ready REST interface to WhatsApp, supporting both free Baileys-based Web connections and Meta's official Business Cloud API from the same server. With 9,200+ stars and 7,100+ forks, it is the most widely deployed WhatsApp integration layer available. Each installation handles unlimited isolated instances (one per phone number) with independent auth, webhooks, and database separation via Prisma ORM against PostgreSQL or MySQL, cached through Redis. Message types include text, images, audio, video, documents, contacts, locations, interactive buttons, list messages, carousel cards, and PIX payment links through unified endpoints. Native integrations connect to Typebot for chatbot flows, Chatwoot for multi-agent support, Dify and OpenAI for AI conversations, N8N and Flowise for workflow automation, and RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS for enterprise event streaming. Socket.io delivers real-time message and connection events. Amazon S3 or MinIO handles media offloading. The Evolution Manager v2 dashboard provides visual instance creation, QR code scanning, connection monitoring, and integration configuration without touching the API directly. Docker Compose bundles the server, PostgreSQL, and Redis with environment-variable-driven setup. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

RAGFlow has established itself as one of the most widely adopted open-source RAG engines available, powering production AI systems that demand traceable, hallucination-free answers from complex enterprise data. The platform processes PDF, DOCX, Excel, and PPT files through vision-based deep document understanding with layout analysis and OCR, extracting structured knowledge from tables, charts, and images that simpler parsers miss entirely. RAGFlow's hybrid retrieval pipeline combines vector search with BM25 keyword matching and multi-stage reranking across configurable document stores including Elasticsearch, InfiniFlow's Infinity engine, OpenSearch, and OceanBase. Developers connect any combination of LLM providers — OpenAI, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and locally-hosted models via Ollama — through a unified configuration layer. The visual agent workflow system enables multi-step reasoning chains with persistent memory, tool calling, and pre-built templates for common enterprise scenarios. RAGFlow synchronizes data from Confluence, S3, Notion, and Google Drive, and delivers answers through chat integrations with Feishu, Discord, Telegram, and Line. The Python SDK and RESTful API on port 9380 provide programmatic access to knowledge base management, document parsing, and conversational retrieval. The full stack deploys via Docker Compose with MySQL for metadata, Redis for task orchestration, and MinIO for object storage. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

An 8MB Go binary that boots in under one second, uses less than 10MB of RAM, yet delivers full AI agent capabilities across 16+ chat platforms simultaneously. PicoClaw connects to Telegram, Discord, Matrix, IRC, Slack, WeCom, DingTalk, WeChat, LINE, and QQ while supporting LLM providers spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, AWS Bedrock, Azure, and local models via Ollama. Native Model Context Protocol support enables standardized tool integration, and the built-in smart routing engine directs simple queries to lightweight models to reduce API costs while sending complex tasks to capable models. Tool capabilities include secure shell execution, filesystem access, web search, cron scheduling for recurring tasks, and sub-agent spawning with status tracking. Gateway mode transforms PicoClaw into a full AI backend with REST API endpoints accessible from any client. The Skills system loads hierarchical behavior definitions from SKILL.md files, enabling customizable agent personalities and workflows. Compiles for x86_64, ARM64, ARMv7, RISC-V, MIPS, and LoongArch, making it deployable on hardware as cheap as a $10 Sipeed LicheeRV Nano. Achieved nearly 30,000 stars within six months of its February 2026 release. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

A private ChatGPT built with Next.js: Lobe Chat is the open-source AI chat interface teams self-host instead. Its main advantage is provider breadth: one interface connects to 40+ model providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, AWS Bedrock, Azure, and local models served through Ollama, so you can switch models per conversation and compare outputs. It handles multi-modal work: image recognition, image generation, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text. A plugin system based on function calling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) adds external tools like web search and code execution. Run it in standalone mode as a single container with settings in browser storage, or in database mode with PostgreSQL and S3-compatible storage for persistent history, multi-user auth, and RAG knowledge bases built from uploaded documents with pgvector retrieval. Because tools arrive through function calling and MCP rather than a proprietary plugin format, custom internal tools can be exposed to the assistant with a standard server over STDIO or HTTP. Hundreds of pre-configured assistant roles import from the community marketplace. For teams the cost model matters: provider API keys billed per token typically undercut a ChatGPT Plus seat per person, and self-hosting keeps API keys, uploaded files, embeddings, and conversation history entirely on your own server.

FastGPT lets you build production AI agents and knowledge base chatbots through a visual drag-and-drop workflow editor, connecting any LLM provider to your documents with retrieval-augmented generation that cites sources and reduces hallucination. The workflow canvas chains LLM calls, conditional branching, HTTP requests, code sandbox execution, and plugin nodes into complex conversation flows and agent skill pipelines without writing backend code. The knowledge base engine ingests documents in ten formats (TXT, Markdown, HTML, PDF, DOCX, PPTX, CSV, XLSX, URL scraping, and CSV batch import) then applies automatic chunking, hybrid vector retrieval with semantic reranking, and QA-pair splitting to deliver accurate, citation-backed answers. FastGPT connects to virtually any LLM provider through its AI Proxy aggregation layer: OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, ERNIE Bot, and models hosted via Ollama all work through a unified OpenAI-compatible API. Bidirectional MCP support enables agents to call external tools and expose their own capabilities to other systems. Completed applications can be shared via login-free links, embedded as iframe widgets, or integrated with WeCom, Lark, DingTalk, and WeChat Official Accounts through the published REST API. Application operation logs, conversation annotation, and per-model usage analytics provide full lifecycle governance for compliance-sensitive deployments. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. FastGPT Open Source License (Apache 2.0 based) licensed.

A fair-source chatbot and conversational-form builder: Typebot assembles conversations in a visual graph editor. In a visual graph editor you chain blocks from four categories: bubbles display text, images, video, audio, and embeds; inputs collect data through text fields, email, phone, buttons, picture choices, date pickers, file uploads, and Stripe payments; logic blocks handle conditional branching, variables, URL redirects, A/B testing, and custom JavaScript; integration blocks call webhooks, OpenAI, Google Sheets, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Zapier, Make, and Chatwoot. Build once, deploy anywhere: custom domains, WhatsApp, or embedded in any site as a container, popup, or chat bubble through a fast native JS library with no iframe and no external dependencies - plus an HTTP API for executing bots programmatically from any language. Theming covers fonts, colors, roundness, and shadows with custom CSS and reusable templates, and results arrive in real time with drop-off and completion analytics plus CSV export. Two Next.js apps (builder and viewer) self-host via Docker under the Functional Source License, which converts to Apache 2.0 after two years.

Deploy autonomous conversational AI agents and coordinate complex multi-agent workflows through EDDI, an open-source orchestration middleware that turns declarative configuration files into secure, production-grade enterprise assistants. Engineering teams connect AI models from twelve different commercial and local providers, using bilateral Model Context Protocol tools to let external desktop clients and coding assistants interact directly with running conversational services. Autonomous agents collaborate through structured group interaction patterns including round table discussions, peer reviews, Delphi consensus rounds, and devil's advocate debates to refine generated solutions before delivery. Declarative workflow extensions automate external REST API calls with dynamic request templating, extracting structured properties into persistent conversation memory and chaining multi-step service interactions without custom script glue. Built-in secret vaults safely manage sensitive API credentials, while the centralized web dashboard provides live conversation inspection, token quota enforcement, and comprehensive audit logging for regulatory compliance. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Retrieval-augmented chatbots on your own knowledge base - that is the whole mission of Dialoqbase, an open-source bot-building platform. Feed it content through a broad set of data loaders - web pages and full crawls, sitemaps, PDFs, DOCX, CSV, plain text, GitHub repositories, YouTube videos, and MP3/MP4 audio - and it handles the whole RAG pipeline in one self-contained app: chunking, embedding, vector storage, and LLM querying. The distinguishing architecture choice is PostgreSQL with pgvector for embedding storage and similarity search, which removes the separate vector-database dependency, and Redis-backed Bull queues for ingesting large documents without blocking the API. Model choice is wide open: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Cohere, Fireworks, Hugging Face, local models via Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with an equally broad list of embedding providers. Finished bots embed on any website with customizable styling or deploy to Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp, and an API creates and manages bots programmatically. Multi-user support adds registration limits and per-user bot quotas. MIT-licensed and free for commercial use.