Compare DocsGPT with Copilot, Glean, ChatGPT Enterprise, Onyx and building in-house
DocsGPT is an MIT-licensed platform for private AI agents and enterprise search that you can run in the cloud, on your own servers or air-gapped. These pages compare it, on facts with dates, with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Glean, ChatGPT Enterprise, Onyx and building in-house.
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One-line verdicts
Which product fits whom, one sentence each.
| Comparison page | One-line verdict | Facts checked on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Copilot alternative that runs on your own infrastructure | Copilot for Microsoft-only estates whose policy accepts Microsoft cloud processing; DocsGPT for mixed estates, on-premises or air-gapped requirements and own or local models. | |
| Glean | Glean alternative that runs on your own infrastructure — open source | Glean for large SaaS-first estates that want one vendor to run everything; DocsGPT when data cannot leave the network, models are your own, or the team is under 100 seats. | |
| ChatGPT Enterprise | ChatGPT Enterprise alternative that runs on your own infrastructure | ChatGPT Enterprise for a general-purpose assistant on the latest OpenAI models; DocsGPT for cited answers over your documents, self-hosting and model choice. | |
| Onyx | DocsGPT vs Onyx | Two MIT-core peers: Onyx for connector breadth and a larger community; DocsGPT for agent workflows, OCR, built-in benchmarking and regulated delivery references. | |
| Building in-house | Build vs buy RAG: what you build, what DocsGPT provides | Build from scratch when retrieval is your core product; build on DocsGPT when you need the platform components under MIT and want to spend engineering on your own layer. |
How we compare
How each row is scored.
| What the row means | How the value is set | |
|---|---|---|
| Open-source licence | Licence of the product's source code. | Read from the public repository and its LICENSE file; a product with no public source repository is recorded as proprietary. |
| Self-host and air-gap | Can the customer run it on their own servers, and with zero external network? | Air-gapped means zero external egress; hybrid (on-prem platform, cloud LLM) does not count. |
| Model choice / BYOM | Which LLMs can be used and who chooses them. | Vendor documentation; “any” means cloud providers and local engines. |
| Transparent pricing | Is a list price published? | Published list price on the vendor's pricing page; “reported” marks a figure from public reporting, not a price list. |
| Seat minimum / contract | Published contract floor. | Vendor pricing page or public reporting; “none” means a single seat can be bought or the software self-hosted. |
| Vendor access to data | Does the vendor's service process customer content? | Yes when a service the vendor operates runs inference or indexing over the content — a shared service or a dedicated instance alike; the operator is named. No when the customer operates the deployment. |
Cost rows use published list price × seats × 12, before negotiation and without add-ons; where a vendor does not publish a price the row says so. Build vs buy has no vendor price, so that page shows engineering cost instead. DocsGPT cells link to docs.docsgpt.cloud; deployment postures are described on Deployment options and prices on Pricing.
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Competitor facts are re-checked at each dateline and every figure on these pages carries the date it was checked (currently 2026-09-06).
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