Self-hosted & open-source AI, tested on real hardware
Your models. Your hardware. Your data.
Cloud AI is convenient until the bill, the rate limit, or the privacy policy bites. We run open-source AI tools on our own homelab and tell you exactly what works, what it costs, and what VRAM it really needs.
Guides
chatgpt-alts
6 self-hosted ChatGPT alternatives, tested
LIVE
elevenlabs-alts
6 self-hosted voice & TTS alternatives, tested
LIVE
midjourney-alts
Self-hosted image generation stacks
IN LAB
How we test
Every tool in a guide gets installed and run on our own lab hardware before we write a word about it. We record the actual install steps, the actual VRAM and RAM usage, and the failure modes the project's README doesn't mention. If a tool is broken, we say so.
No pay-to-rank. Some links are affiliate links (marked in each guide) — they never change what we recommend.