AnythingLLM
AnythingLLM is an open-source, self-hosted app in the AI & LLM Tools category, licensed MIT and written mainly in JavaScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT and ships a Docker image. It has 67,570 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 67,570
- Forks
- 7,588
- Open issues
- 320
- Commits, last 12 months
- 986
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.18.0Oct 13, 2026
- Created
- Jun 4, 2023
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 986 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 986 |
| Latest release | v1.18.0 (Oct 13, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 38 |
| Open issues | 320 |
| Open pull requests | 31 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 4, 2023 |
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About AnythingLLM
All-in-one desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, No-code agent builder, MCP compatibility, and more.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm.
Topics
- rag
- localai
- vector-database
- llm
- ai-agents
- multimodal
- agent-harness
- agentic-ai
- hermes-agent
- local-ai
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Is AnythingLLM free and open source?
Yes. AnythingLLM is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run AnythingLLM with Docker?
Yes. AnythingLLM provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to AnythingLLM?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to AnythingLLM include Ollama, Stable Diffusion WebUI and Open-WebUI. AnythingLLM itself is a self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT.
Is AnythingLLM actively maintained?
The most recent commit to AnythingLLM was on Oct 25, 2026 with 986 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.18.0, published Oct 13, 2026. It had 320 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.