I’ll second Open WebUI. Runs great as a container. Sync it up with SearXNG and you have a powerful local LLM with web search.
Discussion
Is this better than perplexity, meaning will it to longer and more thorough searches with more sources ?
I would call it better because SearXNG runs on your server and you control which search engines it queries and how many results you want returned.
Is there a guide on how to deploy it locally maybe directly via docker ?