AI Search

Search everything at once, get cited answers.

Search the web, your documents, and your databases in one natural-language query and get organized answers with citations. Self-hosted, so your internal knowledge never leaves your VPS.

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Capabilities

Everything a Modern Research Needs

Powerful capabilities with AI orchestration — all self-hosted on your infrastructure.

Multi-Source Search

One query searches everything — web, documents, and databases — or focus on a single source category like web, docs, knowledge, academic, or code.

Cited Answers

Every answer links to its sources: file name and page for documents, URL and date for web, table and query for databases, with view and copy actions.

Advanced Operators

Refine searches with exact phrases, AND/OR/NOT, site, type, date, and in filters for precise, repeatable results.

Follow-Up Research

Keep asking context-aware follow-ups — the AI builds on previous answers to compare, contrast, and deepen its findings.

Research History

Past searches are organized by today, yesterday, and last week — reopen any query with one click from the History panel.

Export Results

Save research as PDF, Markdown, or Word, or copy it straight into Paper to keep writing — with sources and citations included.

Pricing

One Flat Server — Zero Per-User Fees

Unlike commercial SaaS suites that charge per seat, General Bots runs on your own infrastructure with unlimited users.

Self-Hosted
Your Infrastructure, Your Data
Deploy on any VM or bare metal. No user limits, no hidden fees. Full source under AGPLv3.
  • Unlimited users and operations
  • No per-user licensing fees
  • Full source code access (AGPLv3)
  • Self-contained Docker deployment
  • Bring your own LLM / AI backend
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Unlimited users
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Comparison

Self-Hosted vs SaaS

See how the open-source General Bots Research compares to proprietary alternatives.

FeatureSelf-HostedSaaS
Per-user pricingFreeVendor lock-in
Data ownershipYoursTheirs
Source accessFull (AGPLv3)Closed
AI model choiceAny LLMVendor lock-in
ScalabilityUnlimitedTiered
Audit & complianceFull controlLimited
Why Choose

Built for Sovereignty, Scale, and AI

Thousands of teams choose General Bots for their research infrastructure.

Zero Vendor Lock-In

Your data, your infrastructure, your control. General Bots is fully open source under AGPLv3 — no proprietary APIs, no data leaving your network, no forced upgrades.

  • 100% Open Source

    Audit, modify, and extend the code. Community contributions welcome.

  • AI-Native by Default

    LLM orchestration built in — bring any model, run it on your own hardware.

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