PrivateGPT

A self-hosted API layer for building private AI applications on top of local language models.

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About PrivateGPT

PrivateGPT sits between your applications and a local inference server. It adds retrieval over your own documents (RAG), skills, tools, MCP support and text-to-SQL. It works with any OpenAI-compatible inference server, so you can pair it with whichever local model runtime you already use.

The repository includes a UI folder and a Dockerfile for running it yourself. It suits developers and teams who want to ask questions about their documents without sending them to a hosted AI service.

Strengths

  • Document question answering (RAG) on local models
  • Works with any OpenAI-compatible inference server
  • Supports tools, MCP and text-to-SQL
  • Docker setup included

Limitations

  • Aimed at developers; requires setting up a separate inference server
  • Mainly an API layer rather than a finished desktop app

Details

Pricing
FreeFree to run yourself from the public repository.
License
Proprietary
Developer
Zylon
Platforms
Self-hosted
How it runs
Self-hosted
Best suited for
Developers building private document chat and AI features on local models
Last verified
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Provenance
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