The system has two editions: the Community Edition (CE), which is freely available under the MIT Expat license, and the Enterprise Edition (EE), which includes extra features useful for larger organizations. Danswer can be run locally or deployed on a virtual machine with a single docker compose command. It also has built-in support for deployment on Kubernetes. The platform is looking for contributors and provides a Contribution Guide for interested parties.
Key takeaways:
- Danswer is an open-source AI assistant that can be connected to a company's documents, apps, and people. It can be deployed anywhere and is designed to be modular and easily extensible.
- Danswer provides a Chat interface and can plug into any LLM of your choice. It also serves as a Unified Search across all common workplace tools such as Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, etc.
- Danswer comes with user authentication, role management, chat persistence, and a UI for configuring AI Assistants and their Prompts. It also has connectors to all common workplace tools like Google Drive, Confluence, Slack, etc.
- There are two editions of Danswer: Danswer Community Edition (CE) which is freely available under the MIT Expat license, and Danswer Enterprise Edition (EE) which includes extra features useful for larger organizations.