Onyx
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Onyx, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Onyx's own pricing page, checked 20 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Business | $20 a month | Chat/search · major LLMs · custom agents · MCP/OpenAPI actions · 40+ connectors · web search · deep research · code interpreter · image generation · Slack · developer APIs · dashboards · RBAC · permission inheritance · encrypted secrets · community support · Annual Billing |
| Community Edition | Free | Core RAG · deep research · custom agents · actions · self-hosted |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Business features · OIDC/SAML SSO · on-premise · region-specific deployment · white-labeling · custom integrations · hooks · exports · invoice billing · volume discounts · dedicated support · SLA |
The facts
Each one read from Onyx's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Actions and MCP
- Five built-in actions cover internal search, web search, Python code execution, image generation and a beta coding agent; additional actions use OpenAPI or MCP with token or OAuth authentication.checked 20 Oct 2026
- API
- Nearly every feature is exposed through a REST API using JSON, with Bearer API keys or personal access tokens and an OpenAPI explorer at /api/docs.checked 20 Oct 2026
- API permissions
- API keys act as service accounts whose group memberships control chat, search, agent, connector and administrative access; custom groups are Enterprise-only.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Chat
- The chat interface supports file and URL context, model selection, citations, projects, sharing and multiple AI actions.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Chrome extension
- The Chrome extension provides new-tab search, a sidebar, selected-text queries and keyboard shortcuts, with full-page questioning listed as future functionality.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Connector behavior
- Connectors sync data in the background and support hybrid semantic and keyword search across connected sources.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Connectors
- Onyx keeps connected application data synchronized and can enforce source permissions in Enterprise Edition; documents can also be pushed through API or file upload.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Custom agents
- Users can define agents with natural-language instructions, scoped connector or uploaded knowledge and selected actions, then share them with users or groups.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Deep research
- Deep Research runs repeated reasoning, research and action cycles, can take several minutes and may consume more than ten times normal inference tokens.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Onyx can run as self-hosted Standard or Lite, in Docker Compose, Kubernetes/Helm or cloud infrastructure, and is also offered as managed Onyx Cloud.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Developer API
- Onyx supports APIs for messages, agents, LLM management, actions, and user authentication.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes feature guides, API authentication and reference guidance, Docker, Helm, Terraform, cloud deployment, security hardening, authentication and release notes.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Features
- The Business plan lists chat and search, major LLM access, custom agents, MCP/OpenAPI actions, web search, deep research, code interpreter, and image generation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- File uploads
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Funding
- Crunchbase describes Onyx as a private seed company with two funding rounds and names First Round Capital and Khosla Ventures among investors.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Image generation
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- App integrations
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Desktop apps
- Official documentation provides downloads for Windows EXE, macOS DMG and Linux DEB, with additional MSI, RPM and tarball formats via GitHub Releases.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Desktop platforms
- The native desktop app is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux and connects to an existing Onyx deployment.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founders
- Crunchbase lists Chris Weaver and Yuhong Sun as founders.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as DanswerAI Inc., formerly known as DanswerAI and Danswer.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company location and size
- Crunchbase places the company in San Francisco, California, United States and lists 11–50 employees.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Founded
- G2 lists Onyx AI as serving customers since 2023 and gives 2023 as its founding year.checked 20 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
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