Processing
Self-hosted
How product activity is processed.
INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE
PrivateGPT
An open-source API layer for building private and self-hosted AI applications with local models, retrieval, tools, and document ingestion.
- Self-hosted · CLI
- Self-hostable
- Open source
- No account required
- Pricing
- Open core
- Category
- Local AI
Privacy at a glance
A quick view of the dimensions most useful for comparing this product. Unconfirmed facts stay explicitly unconfirmed.
Identity
No account
Whether an account is needed to use it.
Tracking
Not confirmed
Reported analytics and tracking posture.
Ownership & source
Open source
Availability of the product source code.
Offline support
Yes
Whether core use can continue offline.
Self-hosting
Yes
Whether you can run it on your own infrastructure.
What to know
Why it stands out
- The application layer can be deployed locally or on-premises and connected to OpenAI-compatible inference servers chosen by the operator.
- The core project is open source and is designed for document ingestion, retrieval, citations, tools, and private application APIs.
Trade-offs
- Privacy is configuration-dependent: external model APIs, embedding services, web tools, MCP servers, databases, and connectors can send data outside the deployment.
- The open-source project does not by itself provide universal enterprise identity, encryption-at-rest, governance, audit logging, backup, or security-operation guarantees.
- The project does not provide a complete built-in authentication layer for exposed multi-user deployments; operators should add external authentication and network controls.
Best for
Developers building local or on-premises retrieval and agent applications over sensitive documents.
Consider another option when
Nontechnical users wanting a fully managed consumer application with independently verified end-to-end encryption.
Technical details
Complete privacy-profile dimensions, grouped for easier review. Each value is retained from the catalogue record.
4 groups · 18 dimensions
- Processing
- Self-hosted
- Storage
- Self-hosted
- Offline support
- Yes
- Self-hosting
- Yes
- Data export
- Partial
- Data deletion
- Yes
Evidence
6 public sources collected
- PrivateGPT source repositorygithub.com · Source repository · open-source local AI application API layer, features, license, and release status
- PrivateGPT Documentationdocs.privategpt.dev · Documentation · deployment, local model, ingestion, retrieval, and configuration behavior
- PrivateGPT by Zylonzylon.ai · Product page · open-source and commercial product boundaries
View all 6 sources
- PrivateGPT introductiondocs.privategpt.dev · Documentation · current private application backend, retrieval, tools, and self-hosting scope
- PrivateGPT provider overviewdocs.privategpt.dev · Documentation · local, cloud, and self-hosted OpenAI-compatible inference options
- PrivateGPT user authentication feature requestgithub.com · Documentation · authentication limitations and issue status
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