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24 alternatives to Self hosted Embedding Server | OpenAI compatible

Drop in replacement for OpenAI's embedding API. Can be used with official OpenAPI libraries. Written in python3

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Self hosted Embedding Server | OpenAI compatible launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    EmbedAI▲726

    Train and embed your own AI

    2023 · embedai.thesamur.ai · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted alternative to OpenAI's Responses API compatible with Agents SDK and works with all model providers (Claude/R1/Qwen/Ollama etc) - open-responses/open-responses

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Author here. I just wanted a quick and easy way to easily submit strings to a REST API and get back the embedding vectors in JSON using Llama2 and other similar LLMs, so I put this together over the past couple days. It's very quick and easy to set up and totally self-contained and self-hosted. You can easily add new models to it by simply adding the HuggingFace URL to the GGML format model weights. Two models are included by default, and these are automatically downloaded the first time it's run. It lets you not only submit text strings and get back the embeddings, but also to compare two…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A low code platform to build internal tools

    2021 · retool.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services. Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure. "How can I track LLM spend per API key?" "Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?" "Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?" "Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey, OpenAI recently released "assistants" - These have RAG built into the API, which means that you can provide up to 10.000 files to the assistant without the overhead of dealing with vector databases, splitting files into chunks and more. They work surprisingly well, so I've built a free simple tool to embed them on websites. It has no dependencies and simply uses fetch to communicate to my backend which proxies openai. In the future I plan to add more widget embedding options (currently only chat is available). Let me know if you have any specific questions about either the tool or…

    2025 · rispose.com · its alternatives →

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    X4Y▲144

    A self-hostable AI bot to generate ∞ "X for Y" startup ideas

    2023 · squidandfish.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    We open-sourced catsu, a Python client for embedding APIs. The problem: every embedding provider has a different SDK with different bugs. OpenAI has undocumented token limits. VoyageAI's retry logic was broken until September. Cohere breaks downstream libraries every release. LiteLLM's embedding support is minimal. catsu provides: - One API for 11 providers (OpenAI, Voyage, Cohere, Jina, Mistral, Gemini, etc.) - Bundled database of 50+ models with pricing, dimensions, and benchmark scores - Built-in retry with exponential backoff - Automatic cost tracking per request - Full async support…

    Dec 2025 · catsu.dev · its alternatives →

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    i built an open source version of OpenAI Assistants API it's compatible with any LLM & embeddings model and u can swap it out for OpenAI assistants API with just one line of code. if you want this let me know 👇

    2023 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I’ve always loved building frontend-only apps—those you can prototype over a weekend, host for free on GitHub Pages, and scale to millions of users. Unfortunately, AI-enabled apps complicate things, as exposing your OpenAI key to the world is obviously a no-go. This also means mobile developers often have to run their own servers. That’s why I built ServerlessAI, an API gateway that lets you securely call multiple AI providers directly from client side using OpenAI-compatible APIs. You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user…

    2024 · serverlessai.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! A few months ago we shared our AI dataset generator as an open source repo, and the response was incredible (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44388093). We got requests from folks who wanted to use it without the hosting overhead, so we created both options: a hosted version (https://www.metabase.com/ai-data-generator for instant use and the source code fully open (https://github.com/metabase/dataset-generator) for anyone who wants to self-host or contribute. Looking forward to seeing how you use it and what you build on top of…

    2025 · metabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast, secure local AI workflows with minimal setup

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    One API key to access all ai models

    2024 · embedapi.com · its alternatives →

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    The Self-hosted AI Starter Kit is an open-source template that quickly sets up a local AI environment. Curated by n8n, it provides essential tools for creating secure, self-hosted AI workflows. - n8n-io/self-hosted-ai-starter-kit

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Master Clojure through project-based courses, live workshops, and a thriving community of practitioners.

    Feb 2026 · clojure.stream · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I'm Ben, the co-creator of Embedbase. Embedbase lets you use OpenAI Embeddings and Pinecone seamlessly. For example, you can add Embedbase to your app and pair it with GPT3 to allow people to search using natural language (e.g. How many workouts did I complete last week?), or simply expanding your current search experience beyond full-text search (e.g. looking for "similar" documents in Notion to find other related information) Managing embeddings is uncharted territory, we needed to discover the best practices ourselves. Now we're happy to share our learnings with Embedbase. Shoot if…

    2023 · embedbase.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Serve LLMs privately with an OpenAI API compatible API

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    api2ai parses OpenAPI Spec to generate an agent that can make API calls. For context, I recently need to explore a handful of API suites and thought LLMs can help expedite this process. After some digging, I found OpenAPI Specs are perfect fit for function calling. Based on a text prompt, api2ai can select the right endpoint and properly parse request params and make api calls. It also handles authentication, currently it supports basic auth, api keys, and bearer token schemes. The tool has helped me explore and see APIs in action without a deep dive into the docs or using postman. It’s open…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Umbra▲6

    OpenAI-compatible API for models nobody else hosts

    Jul 2026 · tryumbra.dev · its alternatives →

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    An open-source web widget for easy OpenAI Assistants integration on your website. - widgetplatform/widget-oa

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Built this open-source project for turning any content - Markdown, CSV, JSON, SVG, Mermaid, HTML - into a hosted, rendered, shareable page. One POST in, URL out. Designed specifically for agents, with an MCP server and a CLI. Built on Cloudflare Workers. Free to use, self-hostable. Try now: `curl -fsSL https://easl.dev/install.sh | sh` GitHub: https://github.com/AdirAmsalem/easl Site: https://easl.dev Feedback welcome!

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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