External Knowledge Bases — paid against free

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Paid tools for this job are being added. The free alternatives below are ready to use.

Free to use. You run it on your own server.

They do this job.

A self-hosted question-and-answer site for a help centre, a community or an internal knowledge base.

A second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.

A discussion forum you run on a machine of your own.

An open-source live chat box plus one inbox for email and messaging-app conversations.

A self-hosted bookmark manager that keeps a copy of every page it saves.

A self-hosted wiki organised as shelves, books, chapters and pages.

Astro's own documentation theme — the content that ranks for months and gets quoted by AI assistants.

It turns a shared email address into a list of support tickets with owners and history.

A shared inbox and help desk for a support email address, run on a machine of one's own.

It turns a shared email address into a numbered list of tickets with owners and statuses.

Self-hosted live chat, support inbox and messaging campaigns.

It turns a shared email address into a list of tickets with owners, statuses and deadlines.

A self-installed support desk that puts live chat and email in one shared inbox.

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