Onyx Community Edition
Chat UI that works with any LLM. It comes loaded with advanced features like agents, web search, RAG, MCP, deep research, Connectors to 40+ knowledge sources, and more.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 92%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 32k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | helm/onyx-0.8.38 · 27 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | Docker, K8S |
Is Onyx Community Edition actively maintained?
Onyx Community Edition is under active development: 5483 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 565 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, helm/onyx-0.8.38, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Onyx Community Edition ranks #5 of 14 in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Onyx Community Edition actually does
Onyx Community Edition provides a chat interface designed to connect with various large language models. It includes built-in tools such as web search, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, and connectors for numerous knowledge sources.
Best fit: Self-hosters who want a feature-rich, unified chat front-end to interface with multiple external or local language models under an MIT licence.
Worth knowing: Integrating numerous knowledge connectors and running advanced agentic workflows can introduce significant configuration overhead and high resource consumption.
Deployment notes
Deployment typically relies on container orchestration via Docker or Kubernetes, which usually requires provisioning persistent volumes for state and configuring a reverse proxy for TLS termination.
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