Comparing Onyx vs Morphik (whole PMF Deep Research)

David Pickett

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  • David

Idea:

  • Comparing two open-source projects, Onyx and Morphik, for self-hosted semantic search (and deep research) across Google Drive files (PDFs, Docs, Sheets, and Slides)

Details:

  • Onyx: Great text-based search, flexible embedding models
  • Morphik: Powerful multi-modal search (text, images, graphs)
  • Onyx easily connects and syncs with Google Drive
  • Morphik supports building knowledge graphs from Drive documents
  • Onyx has quick setup with Docker (or Kubernetes if scale is eventually needed)
  • Morphik can bundle local AI models (or can use existing local endpoints)
  • Onyx emphasizes strong enterprise-grade security
  • Morphik emphasizes offline privacy but less built-in security
  • Onyx integrates nicely with Slack, browsers, and more
  • Morphik lets you deeply customize via APIs and visuals

Performance:

  • Morphik seems to be very slow on Mac through Docker (calling to Nvidia Ollama for LLM)
  • Onyx seems to work A LOT faster

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