onyx-dot-app / onyx
Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM
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<h2 align="center"> <a href="https://www.onyx.app/?utm_source=onyx_repo&utm_medium=github&utm_campaign=readme"> <img width="50%" src="https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/blob/logo/OnyxLogoCropped.jpg?raw=true" /></a> </h2> <p align="center">Open Source AI Platform</p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://discord.gg/TDJ59cGV2X" target="_blank"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/discord-join-blue.svg?logo=discord&logoColor=white" alt="Discord" /> </a> <a href="https://docs.onyx.app/?utm_source=onyx_repo&utm_medium=github&utm_campaign=readme" target="_blank"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-view-blue" alt="Documentation" /> </a> <a href="https://www.onyx.app/?utm_source=onyx_repo&utm_medium=github&utm_campaign=readme" target="_blank"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/website?url=https://www.onyx.app&up_message=visit&up_color=blue" alt="Documentation" /> </a> <a href="https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/blob/main/LICENSE" target="_blank"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=license&message=MIT&color=blue" alt="License" /> </a> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://trendshift.io/repositories/12516" target="_blank"> <img src="https://trendshift.io/api/badge/repositories/12516" alt="onyx-dot-app/onyx | Trendshift" style="width: 250px; height: 55px;" /> </a> </p>Onyx is a feature-rich, self-hostable Chat UI that works with any LLM. It is easy to deploy and can run in a completely airgapped environment.
Onyx comes loaded with advanced features like Agents, Web Search, RAG, MCP, Deep Research, Connectors to 40+ knowledge sources, and more.
[!TIP] Run Onyx with one command (or see deployment section below):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx/main/deployment/docker_compose/install.sh > install.sh && chmod +x install.sh && ./install.sh

⭐ Features
- 🤖 Custom Agents: Build AI Agents with unique instructions, knowledge and actions.
- 🌍 Web Search: Browse the web with Google PSE, Exa, and Serper as well as an in-house scraper or Firecrawl.
- 🔍 RAG: Best in class hybrid-search + knowledge graph for uploaded files and ingested documents from connectors.
- 🔄 Connectors: Pull knowledge, metadata, and access information from over 40 applications.
- 🔬 Deep Research: Get in depth answers with an agentic multi-step search.
- ▶️ Actions & MCP: Give AI Agents the ability to interact with external systems.
- 💻 Code Interpreter: Execute code to analyze data, render graphs and create files.
- 🎨 Image Generation: Generate images based on user prompts.
- 👥 Collaboration: Chat sharing, feedback gathering, user management, usage analytics, and more.
Onyx works with all LLMs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.) and self-hosted LLMs (like Ollama, vLLM, etc.)
To learn more about the features, check out our documentation!
🚀 Deployment
Onyx supports deployments in Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, along with guides for major cloud providers.
See guides below:
- Docker or Quickstart (best for most users)
- Kubernetes (best for large teams)
- Terraform (best for teams already using Terraform)
- Cloud specific guides (best if specifically using AWS EKS, Azure VMs, etc.)
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To try Onyx for free without deploying, check out Onyx Cloud.
🔍 Other Notable Benefits
Onyx is built for teams of all sizes, from individual users to the largest global enterprises.
- Enterprise Search: far more than simple RAG, Onyx has custom indexing and retrieval that remains performant and accurate for scales of up to tens of millions of documents.
- Security: SSO (OIDC/SAML/OAuth2), RBAC, encryption of credentials, etc.
- Management UI: different user roles such as basic, curator, and admin.
- Document Permissioning: mirrors user access from external apps for RAG use cases.
🚧 Roadmap
To see ongoing and upcoming projects, check out our roadmap!
📚 Licensing
There are two editions of Onyx:
- Onyx Community Edition (CE) is available freely under the MIT license.
- Onyx Enterprise Edition (EE) includes extra features that are primarily useful for larger organizations. For feature details, check out our website.
👪 Community
Join our open source community on Discord!
💡 Contributing
Looking to contribute? Please check out the Contribution Guide for more details.