Vane (formerly Perplexica)
Self-hosted, privacy-focused AI search engine with cited answers.
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About Vane (formerly Perplexica)
Vane is an AI-powered answering engine that runs entirely on your own hardware, combining live web search with support for local LLMs via Ollama as well as cloud providers. It returns answers with cited sources while keeping searches private.
Strengths
- Supports fully local LLMs through Ollama for private searches
- Cites sources alongside generated answers
Limitations
- Requires running your own search and model infrastructure
- Renamed from Perplexica, which may cause confusion for existing users
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- ItzCrazyKns
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted, Web application
- Best suited for
- Self-hosted, privacy-focused AI search engine with cited answers
- Categories
- Local AI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (AI); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.