Open Source Perplexity AlternativesTop AI Chatbots & AI Writing Tools like Perplexity

The best open source alternative to Perplexity is Scira. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Perplexity and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Perplexity are Qwen, Morphic, Z.ai and Perplexica.

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  1. Scira icon
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    Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! Search with models like Grok 2.0.

    13 Scira alternatives

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    Best alternative since it also focused on search results. Other mainstream AI chatbots are more focused on the actual response and less on the "search engine" aspect.

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    • Scira is Freemium and Open SourcePerplexity is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Qwen icon
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    Alibaba Cloud's general-purpose AI models.

    115 Qwen alternatives

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  3. Morphic icon
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    Morphic it's a fully open-source AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI. Built with Vercel AI SDK, it delivers awesome streaming results.

    24 Morphic alternatives

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  4. Z.ai icon
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    Z.ai is an AI-powered conversational platform developed by Zhipu AI, designed to provide intelligent, natural, and context-aware interactions. It leverages Zhipu’s advanced large language models (GLM series) to support tasks such as answering questions, generating content...

    17 Z.ai alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered searching tool or an AI-powered search engine that goes deep into the internet to find answers. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it's an open-source option that not just searches the web but understands your questions.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Assistral icon
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    Assistral is a simple WebView wrapper for Mistral Le Chat. It blocks all URLs which are not essential for functioning.

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    • F-Droid
     
  7. Simplexity icon
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    The non-nonsense simple desktop app for Perplexity AI. It's just work, no magic, no tray, no scripts injected and nothing obfuscated.

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    • Flathub
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  8. Tencent Yuanbao is an AI-powered platform developed by Tencent that provides researchers, developers, and enthusiasts with tools to simulate, experiment with, and interact with large language models. It offers simplified transformer-based LLM simulations designed to make complex...

    16 Tencent Yuanbao alternatives

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    • Free
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  9. Kai AI icon
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    Kai is designed to provide you with access to powerful, state-of-the-art conversational AI models. Through a simple and intuitive chat interface, you can engage with models like Llama and Google's Gemini, exploring their capabilities for various tasks.

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  10. AI Hub icon
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    All your AI assistants, beautifully together. Privacy-first, open-source, and completely customizable.

    24 AI Hub alternatives

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  11. Falcon Chat icon
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    Falcon Chat is an AI-powered conversational platform developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) that lets users interact with Falcon language models directly.

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  12. ISH Chat icon
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    Welcome to ISH Playground, where AI meets an unapologetically chaotic charm. Thanks to Cloudflare's secret sauce and residential proxies, it’s ephemeral, fleeting, and delightfully magical. Sure, you can’t self-host, but hey—it’s free. Why complain?.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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