Perplexica
An AI-powered answering engine, alternative to Perplexity AI
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Perplexica - An AI-powered answering engine, alternative to Perplexity AI

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Perplexica is a privacy focused AI answering engine that runs entirely on your own hardware. It combines knowledge from the vast internet with support for local LLMs (Ollama) and cloud providers (OpenAI, Claude, Groq), delivering accurate answers with cited sources while keeping your searches completely private.

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I built Perplexica in 2024 because I was frustrated with how search worked. Traditional search engines gave me links but I wanted answers. AI chatbots gave me answers but they hallucinated. I wanted something that combined both: AI powered answers with real citations, running privately on my own hardware. I also believed that powerful AI tools shouldn't be locked behind corporate paywalls or require sending all your searches to big tech companies. Privacy matters. Open source matters. So I built Perplexica to prove that you can have an intelligent search engine that respects both. It started as a personal project to solve my own problem. Turns out, a lot of other people had the same problem too.