Vane
A self-hosted AI answering engine that searches the web and cites its sources, combining local models through Ollama or cloud providers with a bundled private web search backend.
Vane answers a question by searching the web through a bundled SearxNG instance, which queries multiple search engines while keeping the user's identity private, and then generates a cited answer using a chosen local or cloud language model, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and Groq. It offers speed, balanced and quality search modes, can search the web, discussions or academic papers, and can also search images and video alongside text.
Users can upload documents, including PDFs, text files and images, and ask questions about them, restrict a search to specific domains, and browse a discover feed of trending content. Search history is saved locally so past searches can be revisited.
It runs as a Docker container bundling both Vane and SearxNG, or against an existing SearxNG instance using a slim image. It is written in TypeScript and licensed under the MIT license.