Best Free Self-Hosted AI for self-hosting

The 82 best Free self-hosted ai you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

At a glance

AppDeploy effortDifficultyMin. RAMLicense★ Stars
OpenClaw≈5-minute setupEasy512 MBfree391,924
Hermes Agent≈5-minute setupEasy512 MBfree253,548
OpenCode≈5-minute setupEasy512 MBfree213,299
PaddleOCRUnder-an-hour setupMedium2,048 MBApache-2.091,059
OpenHandsUnder-an-hour setupMedium4,096 MBMIT90,837
UnslothRead-the-docs projectMedium8,192 MBApache-2.077,964
ClineRead-the-docs projectEasy512 MBApache-2.070,284
Open InterpreterRead-the-docs projectMedium1,024 MBAGPL-3.068,574
Mem0Under-an-hour setupMedium1,024 MBApache-2.067,140
GPT4Free≈5-minute setupMedium512 MBGPL-3.066,839

Quick picks

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Free within the self-hosted ai category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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