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Open-source alternatives to ChatGPT Business

Three hand-approved projects in our catalog replace ChatGPT Business. All three are aI assistants software. Open WebUI has the most GitHub stars (157.3K). Tick what matters to you and the list re-sorts so the closest fits come first. Open WebUI is source-available (Open WebUI License), not open source.

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The alternatives

Pick what matters below. For now the three alternatives are in order of GitHub stars.

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Open WebUI

AI assistants

A private, extensible interface for local and hosted AI models.

  • Connects Ollama, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and multiple model providers in one self-hosted interface.
  • Adds retrieval over documents, web search, tools, image generation, voice, and model-specific workflows.
  • Supports user accounts, groups, granular permissions, responsive access, and offline-first deployments.
Does not meet: Permissive licenceDoes not meet: Open-source licenceMeets: Released ≤ 90 daysMeets: Gaining starsMeets: Written in PythonMeets: In a stack
157.3K starsOpen WebUI Licensesource-availablePythonLatest release 2 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

AnythingLLM

AI assistants

A private ChatGPT-style assistant that answers from your own documents.

  • Chat with PDFs, Word files and text documents, with source citations in each answer.
  • Build agents with a no-code flow editor, custom skills and MCP servers.
  • The Docker version adds user roles, white-labelling and an embeddable website chat widget.
Meets: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceMeets: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in JavaScriptMeets: In a stack
67.8K starsMITJavaScriptLatest release 5 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

LibreChat

AI assistants

A self-hosted AI chat app that works with every major model.

  • Chat with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Bedrock, local Ollama models and any OpenAI-compatible API.
  • Build no-code agents with MCP tools, file search, code execution and reusable skills.
  • Run code safely in a sandboxed interpreter and search the web from the conversation.
Meets: Permissive licenceMeets: Open-source licenceDoes not meet: Released ≤ 90 daysDoes not meet: Gaining starsMeets: Written in TypeScriptMeets: In a stack
46.5K starsMITTypeScriptNo GitHub release yetWebsite ↗Full profile →

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