Vane
AI-powered search engine (alternative to Perplexity AI).
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Still maintained? Yes: 1 commit in the last 90 days, latest release v1.12.2 (Apr 2026).
At a glance
Vane quick facts
- Health score
- 63/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 37,841
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.12.2, Apr 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Vane 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."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Vane scores 63/100, #14 of 14 in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): 1 commit in the last 90 days earns 1.2 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.12.2, 7 months ago) earns 23.9 of 25, 37,841 stars add 18.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 33.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 1.2 / 35
1 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 23.9 / 25
v1.12.2 released 7 months ago
- Stars 18.3 / 20
38k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 1
- Last 90 days
- 279
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 14 tools in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) by health , just below Khoj (#13) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v1.12.2 · 7 months ago |
| Stars | 37,841 |
| Open issues | 244 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | ItzCrazyKns/Vane ↗ |
Vane vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Vane (Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LobeHub | 100 | 84k | ⊘ Proprietary | today |
| Ollama | 100 | 185k | MIT | today |
| Open-WebUI | 100 | 157k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| AnythingLLM | 99 | 68k | MIT | today |
| Local Deep Research | 96 | 9.4k | MIT | today |
| Vane (this tool) | 63 | 38k | MIT | 2 months ago |
Vane: common questions
Is Vane still maintained?
Vane had 1 commit in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago; the latest tagged release, v1.12.2, is from 7 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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