ConfigsApr 1, 2026·1 min read

Onyx — Self-Hosted AI Chat with 40+ Connectors

Onyx (formerly Danswer) is a self-hosted AI chat with RAG, custom agents, and 40+ knowledge connectors. 20.4K+ stars. Enterprise search. MIT.

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Quick Use

Use it first, then decide how deep to go

This block should tell both the user and the agent what to copy, install, and apply first.

curl -fsSL https://onyx.app/install_onyx.sh | bash
# Open http://localhost:3000

Intro

Onyx (formerly Danswer) is a self-hostable AI chat platform with advanced RAG, custom agents, web search, and 40+ application connectors. With 20,400+ GitHub stars and MIT license, it features hybrid-search RAG with knowledge graphs, deep research via multi-step agentic search, code interpreter, image generation, enterprise search scaling to millions of documents, SSO, RBAC, and document permissioning.

Best for: Teams wanting self-hosted AI chat with enterprise knowledge search Works with: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf


Key Features

  • Custom agents with unique knowledge
  • 40+ application connectors
  • Hybrid-search RAG with knowledge graphs
  • Deep research (multi-step agentic search)
  • Code interpreter and image generation
  • Enterprise: SSO, RBAC, document permissions

FAQ

Q: What is Onyx? A: Self-hosted AI chat with 20.4K+ stars. 40+ connectors, RAG, custom agents, enterprise search. MIT.

Q: How do I install Onyx? A: curl -fsSL https://onyx.app/install_onyx.sh | bash.


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Source & Thanks

danswer-ai/danswer — 20,400+ GitHub stars

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