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.
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Done reading? Skip straight to running
The SelfHost AI Stack kit gets your own private ChatGPT running in one command: chat UI, local models, and private web search, wired together. A plain-English guide, no Docker experience needed. About 20 minutes to done.
Get the kit — £29 →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.