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Self-Hosted AI Starter Kit

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Description

self-hosted-ai-starter-kit is n8n's official local AI starter kit, bundling n8n, Ollama and Qdrant to bootstrap a local agent platform with one command.

Key Features

  • One-command deploy — docker compose brings up a local AI stack
  • Comprehensive bundle — n8n + Ollama + Qdrant + PostgreSQL
  • Visual orchestration — drag-and-drop AI agent flows in n8n
  • Local-model ready — works with many open-source LLMs via Ollama
  • Vector storage — Qdrant as the vector backend
  • Free to start — fully local, zero-cost

Use Cases

💡 Zero-cost exploration of a full local AI agent platform
💡 Baseline environment for corporate AI / agent learning
💡 Moving workflow automation from cloud SaaS to local
💡 Extending into a production-ready private agent platform

Strengths & Limitations

✅ Strengths

  • • High community interest (15.2k stars)
  • • Permissive open-source license (Apache-2.0)
  • • Established track record (2 years in production)
  • • Responsive to issues, low backlog

Tags

n8n ollama qdrant starter ai

Categories

⚡ Agent Tools 🔄 Workflow

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/n8n-io/self-hosted-ai-starter-kit.git
cd self-hosted-ai-starter-kit
docker compose up -d
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