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Self-Hosted

Self-hosted AI platforms and home-lab staples.

73 tools · 💎 32 hidden gems

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The most-starred projects in this category, plus a rotating pick of three more from deeper in the list — refreshed so the whole catalogue gets its turn in the window.

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awesome-selfhosted

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

★ 323.7k starsUnknown
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Uptime Kuma

Uptime Kuma — a fancy self-hosted monitoring tool: uptime checks for sites and services every 20 seconds, with a beautiful status page and 90+ alert channels

★ 92.6k starsMIT
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Home Assistant

Home Assistant — open-source home automation that puts local control and privacy first: thousands of integrations, automations and dashboards on your own hardware

★ 91.6k starsApache-2.0
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aipipe

Free OpenAI/OpenRouter API access at 10 cents a week, self-hostable.

★ 37 starsMIT
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mobius

A self-hosted AI agent that builds apps by chatting with you.

★ 33 starsMIT
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byeol

A personal AI assistant that lives on a Raspberry Pi 3.

★ 31 starsMIT
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About Self-Hosted tools

Self-hosted AI platforms are the home base: all-in-one servers that bundle chat, image, voice, and automation behind one login on your own machine or VPS. They suit home labs, small teams, and anyone who wants AI services that answer to them alone.

Running your own platform trades money for maintenance: you gain privacy, no seat pricing, and full backups, and in return you own updates, security, and uptime. The tools here differ mainly in how much they bundle versus how much they expect you to compose yourself.

How to choose

  • Be realistic about upkeep: pick the platform whose update story (containers, one-command upgrades) you will actually follow.
  • Start on a spare machine or cheap VPS; these platforms are easy to move once you know your load.
  • Check the backup story before the feature list — a self-hosted platform you cannot restore is a liability.
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Questions, answered

Which open-source Self-Hosted tools are listed here?

This page collects 73 open-source Self-Hosted projects curated by LibreAI — Self-hosted AI platforms and home-lab staples. Each one is verified on GitHub and has its own guide page with an overview, install steps, use cases, and an FAQ.

Are these Self-Hosted tools free to use?

Yes. Every tool here is open source and free to download and use under its own license — most use MIT, Apache-2.0, or GPL-3.0, and any custom source-available license is flagged on the tool's page. Check the LICENSE file before commercial use.

Does LibreAI host these tools?

No. LibreAI publishes guides only — no downloads are served from this site. Every install comes from the project's official GitHub repository.

How do I install a Self-Hosted tool from this page?

Open the tool's guide and follow its 'Run it yourself' section — the steps come from the project's own documentation — or use the 'View on GitHub' button to go straight to the official repository.

How were these tools chosen?

Every project is verified live through the GitHub API — stars, forks, license, and recent activity — and listed only if it has real momentum and an active community.

What hardware do I need to self-host an AI platform?

The platform itself is light; the models it serves decide the hardware. Chat with small local models runs on a modest mini-PC, while image and large-model work wants a real GPU. Several platforms also let you connect hosted APIs, which removes the GPU requirement entirely.

Is self-hosting actually more private?

It can be: your prompts and files stay on machines you control, with no third-party retention policies to trust. Privacy then depends on your own setup — updates, access control, and backups — which is the honest trade this category makes explicit.