# ItzCrazyKns/Vane

Vane is an AI-powered answering engine.

Repository: https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Vane
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vane
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai-search-engine, search-engine, open-source-ai-search-engine, perplexica, artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, searxng, searxng-copilot, ai-agents, answering-engine, llm, rag, self-hosted-ai, vane
Last push: 2026-04-11T14:33:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 76, release rhythm 78, longevity 62
- inputs: {"age_days": 876, "days_push": 144, "days_rel": 145, "gap_med": 11.0, "n_releases_24m": 13}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 36489, forks 4054 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:01.129958+00:00)

## What it is
Vane is a self-hosted, privacy-focused AI answering engine that combines web search (via SearxNG) with LLMs to deliver cited answers. It supports local models through Ollama as well as cloud providers, and includes features like file uploads, image/video search, and search modes.

## Use cases
- self-host an AI search engine like Perplexity
- get AI answers with cited web sources
- run a private AI answering engine on my own hardware
- search the web with a local LLM via Ollama
- ask questions about uploaded PDFs and documents
- replace Perplexica with an open-source AI search

## When to choose
- you want Perplexity-style AI search without sending queries to third parties
- you run local LLMs with Ollama and want a search frontend
- you need cited answers with configurable search modes and sources

## When to avoid
- you only need a plain web search engine without LLM answers
- you cannot host SearxNG or a backend service
- you need a fully managed hosted solution

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, rag, llm-inference, chatbot, web-scraping
- domain: artificial-intelligence, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: search, retrieval-augmented-generation, docker, web-server, nodejs, typescript

## Member repositories
- ItzCrazyKns/Vane (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.129958+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:26:11.031248+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Vane (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.129958+00:00, sha b056b6049e67)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.