Zylon

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public(zylon-ai/private-gpt)

core features withheld

no — no enterprise or ee path in the repository root and no paid tier of this code described in the README

Apache-2.0, an OSI license with no appended terms, covers PrivateGPT's full public source. Zylon, the maintainer's commercial platform, is a separate end-to-end product built on top rather than a gated build of this code, and the repository names no enterprise or paid tier of PrivateGPT itself.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zylon-ai/private-gpt/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-06

  LICENSE body, read in full: the stock Apache License 2.0 text at 11,357 bytes, byte-identical to the canonical template through END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS and followed only by the standard appendix. No appended condition.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zylon-ai/private-gpt/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-06

  README, read for the distribution and gating question. The 'What PrivateGPT gives you' section lists the messages API, ingestion, agentic RAG, built-in and custom tools, MCP connectors, database and CSV access and embeddings, all shipped from this repository. The 'PrivateGPT vs Zylon' section states that PrivateGPT is the open-source application API layer and that Zylon is a separate end-to-end platform built on top of it, adding a Triton and vLLM inference server, Kubernetes packaging and support - a product sold alongside rather than a licence-gated build of this code.

PrivateGPT installs through a Homebrew tap and a shell script rather than a package registry this map can measure; the names private-gpt and private_gpt are unregistered on PyPI, and privategpt and pgpt belong to unrelated projects. That leaves GitHub stars as the only adoption signal, and a star is not a use, so the product's real adoption is not something this map's current signals can measure.

• https://api.github.com/repos/zylon-ai/private-gpt recorded 2026-08-31

  Repo metadata for zylon-ai/private-gpt: stargazers_count 57491, archived false, pushed_at 2026-08-31.

PrivateGPT sits on the gateway side of this category rather than the chat side, with a retrieval, tool and connector surface at the same level as AnythingLLM and Open WebUI. It stops short of the top because it ships no interface of its own, unlike LibreChat, which pairs multi-provider chat, multi-user authentication and agents together.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zylon-ai/private-gpt/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

  The 'What PrivateGPT gives you' section lists a standard messages API with streaming, async and token counting, file and artifact ingestion, retrieval with citations and agentic RAG, built-in tools mirroring the Claude API, custom tools and MCP connectors, structured access to databases and CSVs, and embeddings and orchestration.