Onyx Review 2026

Open-source enterprise AI assistant and unified search across all your company's tools and documents.

Onyx (formerly known as Danswer) is an open-source, self-hostable enterprise search and AI assistant platform designed to give teams a single conversational interface across every workplace tool. It connects to over 40 sources including Google Drive, Confluence, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce, and more, indexes the content, and enables natural-language question answering with citations pointing back to the original source. Onyx is built around modular Assistants — each backed by its own prompt, knowledge subset, and permissions — so a customer-support agent can search your Zendesk knowledge base while an engineering agent draws only from GitHub and Confluence. Because it can be deployed inside your own VPC or on-prem via Docker/Kubernetes, sensitive documents never leave your environment, which makes it attractive to regulated industries. Onyx also ships with an Enterprise Edition featuring SAML/OIDC single sign-on, granular document-level permission sync, usage analytics, and a curator role for custom knowledge maintenance. Developers appreciate that it exposes an API and supports bring-your-own LLM — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, Google, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint like Ollama or vLLM — making it a flexible foundation for internal chatbots without lock-in. Onyx supports MCP for tool integrations, letting agents call external systems through a standard protocol.