📑 Contents

⚡ The 10 at a glance

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Tool

What it is

Stars

Setup

Langflow

Visual no code builder for AI agents and RAG

~149k

Python / Docker

Dify

Platform to ship production AI apps

~144k

Docker

Open WebUI

Self hosted ChatGPT style interface

~140k

Python / Docker

Supabase

Open source Firebase, Postgres backend

~102k

Hosted / Docker

browser-use

AI agent that drives any website

~84k

Python

Stirling PDF

50 plus PDF tools, fully local

~80k

Docker

OpenHands

Autonomous AI coder, open Devin

~76k

Docker

crawl4ai

Turns websites into clean LLM ready data

~68k

Python

Coolify

Self hosted Heroku and Vercel

~56k

Bash script

Maxun

No code web scraper, point and click

~16k

Docker Compose

🔁 What each one replaces

Tool

Replaces

The pitch

Langflow

Flowise, paid agent builders

Drag and drop AI workflows, export as a Python API

Dify

LangChain glue code, AI app platforms

Agents, workflows, and RAG in one self hosted box

Open WebUI

ChatGPT Plus

Private ChatGPT on your own machine, works offline

Supabase

Firebase

Postgres, auth, storage, realtime APIs in seconds

browser-use

Manual clicking, brittle scrapers

Tell an agent the task in plain English

Stirling PDF

Smallpdf, iLovePDF, Adobe online

Merge, split, sign, OCR, nothing leaves your server

OpenHands

Devin, paid AI coding agents

Hand it a task, it writes and runs the code

crawl4ai

Paid scraping APIs

AI native scraping, handles JavaScript heavy pages

Coolify

Heroku, Vercel, Netlify bills

Push to git, it deploys on your own server

Maxun

No code scraping SaaS

Click the data you want, it builds the scraper

💻 Install one liners

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⚠️ Version tags and image names change between releases. These reflect the current docs as of today. Always check the linked repo for the latest before running.

Langflow (Python 3.10 to 3.13, uv recommended)

uv pip install langflow -U
# or Docker:
docker run -p 7860:7860 langflowai/langflow:latest

Dify (Docker, clone first)

git clone https://github.com/langgenius/dify.git
cd dify/docker
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d

Open WebUI (Python 3.11)

pip install open-webui
# or Docker:
docker run -d -p 3000:8080 -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

Supabase — easiest is the hosted dashboard at supabase.com. Self host via Docker:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/supabase/supabase
cd supabase/docker
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d

browser-use (Python 3.11 plus, uv)

uv init && uv add browser-use && uv sync
uvx browser-use install   # installs Chromium if needed

Stirling PDF (Docker)

docker run -p 8080:8080 docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf

OpenHands (Docker, version tag changes often, check docs.openhands.dev)

docker run -it --rm --pull=always \
  -e LOG_ALL_EVENTS=true \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v ~/.openhands:/.openhands \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway \
  --name openhands-app \
  docker.openhands.dev/openhands/openhands:1.7

crawl4ai (Python)

pip install -U crawl4ai
crawl4ai-setup   # installs the browser

Coolify (Linux server, one script)

curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | bash

Maxun — Docker Compose only, follow the official steps at docs.maxun.dev/installation/docker. No reliable one line command, so do not invent one.

🧭 Which one do I actually need

I want to build an AI app → No code, visual: Langflow → Full platform with team features: Dify

I want my own private ChatGPT → Open WebUI, point it at Ollama or any model

I need a backend for my app → Supabase, database plus auth plus APIs in one

I want a task done on the web automatically → Plain English agent: browser-use → Click to build a scraper: Maxun → Feed clean data to an LLM: crawl4ai

I want code written for me → OpenHands, hand it the task and walk away

I want to deploy and host my own apps → Coolify, kill the Heroku and Vercel bill

I just need to work with PDFs privately → Stirling PDF, 50 plus tools, nothing uploads anywhere

⚠️ Before you start

  • Most of these need Docker installed. Get it from docker.com.

  • Coolify and OpenHands expect a Linux host or server, not just a laptop.

  • The AI tools (Langflow, Dify, Open WebUI, browser-use, OpenHands, crawl4ai) need an LLM key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) or a local model via Ollama.

  • Self hosted means you own the uptime and the data. No seat pricing, no surprise invoice.

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