Show HN: Cerea – yet another self-hosted LLM chat front end

Category: ai-ml

Tags: self-hosted, llm, chat-ui, openai-compatible, rag, pyodide

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Cerea is a self-hosted chat front end for any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, bundling knowledge bases, sandboxed artifacts, in-browser Python via Pyodide, office document generation, MCP connectors, and a coding-agent panel (galopin). It is a hard fork of huggingface/chat-ui paired optionally with its own Pystino gateway for per-user billing and quotas. The feature breadth is notable, but the crowded self-hosted LLM-UI space limits its novelty.

Target audience: self-hosting enthusiasts, backend devs, and teams deploying private LLM infrastructure

Repository: https://github.com/paoloviviani/Cerea · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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