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Onyx AI

Open-source enterprise search and AI assistant platform.

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Onyx AI at a glance
251.2KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits1.2KRanking keywordsPublic search sample91/100Technical health15 pages checked2.8KReferring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Onyx AI is an open-source enterprise search and AI assistant that helps teams find information across all company data S10. It is used by organizations to provide secure, AI-powered answers to employees, solving the problem of fragmented knowledge across tools S10. The platform offers flexible deployment options, including self-hosted and cloud, and integrates with 40+ data sources S62 S10.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Onyx AI is an open-source enterprise search and AI assistant platform S10.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of finding information across fragmented company data S10.
  • Intended users: Teams and organizations seeking secure, AI-powered knowledge access S1.
  • Product scope: A platform with a web app, desktop app, and developer APIs S10 S51.
  • Positioning: Positioned as a secure, self-hosted AI solution for enterprises S74.
  • Claimed distinction: Claims to be open source, auditable, and deployable in your cloud or on bare metal S10.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Engineering teamsAccess organization's knowledge with full access control and audit trails S58.
Higher education institutionsConnect LMS, SharePoint, Google Drive, and more for instant answers S68.
Aerospace & defenseConnect compliance artifacts to follow requirements to evidence S62.
Sales teamsClose deals with instant access to conversations and product updates S10.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Enterprise SearchSearches across all connected company data sources S10.
AI AssistantProvides AI-powered answers to user questions S10.
ConnectorsIntegrates with 40+ data sources out of the box S62.
Access ControlSyncs ACLs from connected sources to enforce permissions S74.
Developer APIsOffers APIs for integrating Onyx into other apps S51.
Self-Hosted DeploymentCan run entirely inside your network boundary S74.
AgentsSupports AI agents that draw on real-time data and tools S74.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
SlackIntegrationAllows users to search and get answers within Slack S10.
Chrome extensionExtensionProvides access to Onyx from the browser S10.
Desktop appAppConnects to your Onyx deployment for native notifications S88.
MCPAI interfaceSupports Model Context Protocol for connecting to AI agents S74.
REST APIAPIAllows embedding Onyx into products and workflows S74.
Connector frameworkFrameworkEnables custom integrations with data sources S62.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Business$20 per user per month, billed annually S5040+ connectors, deep research, Slack integration, basic auth and Google OAuth S50Not established
EnterpriseContact us, invoice billing S50SSO, on-premise and region-specific deployment, white-labelling S50Not established
Open SourceFree to self-host S50Not establishedNot established

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
reddit.com222.5best open source llm, best coding model
gurusup.com111best coding model
baseten.co112best open source llm
blog.promptlayer.com112best coding model
vellum.ai113best open source llm
community.openai.com113best coding model
mastra.ai114best open source llm
blink.new115best coding model
acecloud.ai116best open source llm
youtube.com116best coding model

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.9%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
integrationsThe open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.https://onyx.app/
featuresGet access to all of your team's unstructured knowledge from other AI tools. For example use it with Cursor to get better context for generation.https://onyx.app/developer-platform
featuresSupercharge every member of the team with their favorite LLM to review writing, crunch numbers, generate code and more.https://onyx.app/developer-platform
featuresMake key decisions with better information and full confidence. Ensure AI response quality with the best and most relevant context based on your team's unique knowledge.https://onyx.app/developer-platform
featuresDeveloper Platform \static
featuresAI Built for Aerospace & Defensehttps://onyx.app/solutions/aerospace
featuresReady to bring secure AI to your team?https://onyx.app/solutions/aerospace
featuresAI for Aerospace & Defensehttps://onyx.app/solutions/aerospace
featuresAI Built for Higher Educationhttps://onyx.app/solutions/education
features24/7 AI support for every studenthttps://onyx.app/solutions/education
featuresYour students' data. Your institution's policies. Your infrastructure. Onyx is built so you maintain full control over what the AI knows, who can access it, and where the data lives.https://onyx.app/solutions/education
featuresGive every member of your team a personal AI assistant for research, chat, and automations. Self-hosted or on our managed cloud.https://onyx.app/solutions/secure-ai
featuresOnyx works with any LLM and provider. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Bedrock, or local open-weight models. Approve specific models per team or use case. Swap providers without disrupting users.https://onyx.app/solutions/secure-ai
featuresUsage analytics, query logs, and feedback tracking across every team. See who is using AI, what they are asking, and where the gaps are so you can measure ROI and guide adoption.https://onyx.app/solutions/secure-ai
featuresGive your team an approved AI platform that actually works, so they stop pasting company data into ChatGPT. One front door for AI, fully under your control.https://onyx.app/solutions/secure-ai
featuresCreate fine-grained API keys to integrate Onyx into any app or even your product. Access Onyx's RAG, Agent and Generative AI capabilities from anywhere.https://onyx.app/developer-platform
featuresGet access to all of your team's unstructured knowledge from other AI tools. For example use it with Cursor to get better context for generation.https://onyx.app/developer-platform
featuresAI Built for Aerospace & Defensehttps://onyx.app/solutions/aerospace
featuresYour data never leaves your infrastructure. Onyx runs in your VPC, your data center, or fully air-gapped enclaves with a local LLM. No SaaS dependency.https://onyx.app/solutions/aerospace
featuresAI Built for Higher Educationhttps://onyx.app/solutions/education

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where reddit.com appears.2 first-page appearances across best open source llm, best coding model
Technical priorityMissing page titlehttps://onyx.app/chat

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
Software FinderOnyx AI Reviews & Ratings / Pros and ConsGrounded web searchthat has nothing to do with our internal documents. For such info, I usually do additional search in other AI tools if Onyx did not provide desired answer at very first try. I usually switch back and forth between different AI tools for best answer for
GetAppOnyx AI 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives / GetAppGrounded web search## Onyx AI reviews Overall rating No reviews - Value for money - Ease of use - Features - Customer support - Likelihood to recommend 0/10 Rating distribution 5 4 3 2 1 0 ... opinions about Onyx AI price and value Value for money rating: 0.0
TeamazingOnyx AI Review 2026: Open-Source Search Tested / teamazingGrounded web search,400 GitHub stars and customers including Netflix and Thales Group. Its community lives on GitHub and in developer forums rather ... much of the historical discussion sits under the old Danswer name. It means no independent buyer feedback exists yet.
AirframeOnyx / AirframeGrounded web searchImportant: “Onyx” is a heavily overloaded name online (macOS utility, crypto wallets, unrelated products). The quotes below reference specifically Onyx (formerly Danswer), the open-source enterprise chat/search product. - Gartner Peer Insights - Onyx has a Peer Insights listing, but it currently shows no reviews in the profile snapshot. This means Gartner Peer Insights does not yet provide validated user sentiment for Onyx; buyers should rely more heavily on community discussions and reference c
WhatIf AIOnyx AI Review 2026 — Pricing, Pros & Cons, Alternatives / WhatIf AIGrounded web search### Drawbacks - ✗ Self-hosting requires ongoing infrastructure operations - ✗ Advanced enterprise features may lag behind closed-source competitors - ✗ Connector quality varies, with community connectors less polished than official ones

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
TestimonialRamptestimonial — Onyx is answering thousands of questions a week at Ramp. (Onyx AI / Open Source Enterprise Search & AI Assistant)

Independent mentions

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipCo-Founder, Dropboxsource
Contact and supportAdmissions, financial aid, registration, housing — deliver instant, accurate answers instead of phone queues and email backlogs.source
Legal and privacySOC 2 Type II certified. Currently deployed in FedRAMP, ITAR, CMMC, FERPA, and GDPR-regulated environments.source
Security and complianceEncryption of Secretssource
Uptime and status pageOur uptime and support commitments.source
Domain registered2018-05-04—
Domain expires2027-05-04—

Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Onyx AI / Open Source Enterprise Search & AI AssistantRoadmapPublic product roadmap. (source)Not dated
Onyx and Unstructured: Elevating Enterprise Search Capabilities / Onyx AIDocumentationDocumentation is publicly available. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Onyx runs entirely in your cloud or on bare metal S10.S10
Platforms and appsDesktop app available for Windows, macOS, and Linux S88.S88
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Full REST API, an MCP server, and a connector framework for custom data sources S74.S74
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsTested on 99 real workplace questions across 220K internal documents S10.S10
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2018-05-04 — Namecheap Inc.
Domain expires2027-05-04
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2027-01-04
Security headersHSTS
Headers not servedCSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerVercel
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns-801.awsdns-36.net, ns-1185.awsdns-20.org

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 91/100
  • Critical issues: 3
  • Warnings: 19
  • Notices: 2

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningTitle length should be reviewed3https://onyx.app/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/legal/privacy-policy
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/pricing
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/contact-sales
warningTitle length should be reviewed77https://onyx.app/enterpriserag-bench
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed266https://onyx.app/enterpriserag-bench
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/answers
warningTitle length should be reviewed69https://onyx.app/connectors
criticalMissing page title—https://onyx.app/chat
warningMissing meta description—https://onyx.app/chat
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/chat
warningMissing canonical URL—https://onyx.app/chat
criticalMissing page title—https://onyx.app/search
warningMissing meta description—https://onyx.app/search
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/search
warningMissing canonical URL—https://onyx.app/search
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/agents-actions
criticalMissing page title—https://onyx.app/integrations
warningMissing meta description—https://onyx.app/integrations
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/integrations
warningMissing canonical URL—https://onyx.app/integrations
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/developer-platform
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed173https://onyx.app/gateway
warningPage should have one primary H10https://onyx.app/solutions/secure-ai

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200AWS11350427 mshttps://onyx.app/
200Privacy Policy \Onyx AI0170118 ms
200Onyx is joining Zoom: a letter to our customers \Onyx AI11188253 ms
200Pricing \Onyx AI0361239 ms
200Contact Sales \Onyx AI0307171 ms
200EnterpriseRAG-Bench: A RAG Benchmark for Company Internal Knowledge \Onyx AI1667312 ms
200Best Answers in Enterprise AI \Onyx \Onyx AI0900
200Onyx Connectors \AI-Powered Search for 40+ Tools \Onyx AI \Onyx AI1
200Missing title0194702 mshttps://onyx.app/chat
200Missing title0178605 mshttps://onyx.app/search
200AI Agents & Actions \Onyx AI0398497 ms
200Missing title0161854 mshttps://onyx.app/integrations
200Developer Platform \Onyx AI0435357 ms
200LLM Gateway \Onyx AI1963327 ms
200Self-Hosted AI Platform for Enterprise0714247 mshttps://onyx.app/solutions/secure-ai

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct25.9%
search57.9%
search organic57.9%
search paid0.0%
social2.4%
social organic2.4%
social paid0.0%
referrals12.4%
paid referrals0.0%
mail0.5%
gen ai0.9%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for Enterprise plan, no explicit uptime guarantees, and no independent customer reviews beyond Ramp. Open questions remain about data export capabilities and specific performance benchmarks.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from onyx.app, including product pages, pricing, solutions, and legal documents. Static and browser rendering rendering were used. External proof search was performed but no additional verification was needed. Limitations include potential marketing bias and lack of third-party validation.

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