Onyx
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“This could be useful.”
“it does the job”
Show 3 more
“I have been using onyx for years and quite happy with it.”
“You don't need any subscription to run the code!”
Caveats and dissent
“I won't be able to run Onyx on my low powered home server anyway”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We let 120 Onyx agents discover a physics model”
“I've been building Onyx, a local-first AI productivity suite for note-taking”
“Have you checked out https://docs.onyx.app/deployment/getting_started/quickstart#installation-script?”
“For an AI-powered research assistant, Onyx might just work out of the box.”
“The admin side of the house has been missing a bit of love, and we have a large overhaul coming soon”
“Most deployments of Onyx are using the pure FOSS version of Onyx.”
Threads where it came up
- Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI 11 mentions
- Autoresearch for Hardware 1 mention
- SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine 1 mention
- Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? 1 mention
- We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant 1 mention
- Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres 1 mention
Data: onyx.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“I use Searxng through Onyx”
“My Saturday mornings are more often markers for running Onyx[1] for maintenance.”
“This could be useful.”
“How does it compare to Onyx”
“it does the job”
“I have been using onyx for years and quite happy with it.”
“I won't be able to run Onyx on my low powered home server anyway”
“Looks awesome!”
“but I'll give this a try”
“You don't need any subscription to run the code!”
“We are building a competing open source tool”
“Congrats on the launch!”