The short answer: Pick Onyx if you need to self-host (it is MIT-licensed, can run air-gapped and supports self-hosted models) or want ~50 connectors with permission sync. Pick Enhanciar if you want a hosted tool with nothing to deploy or upgrade, every answer linked to its source, follow-ups (Jira or Linear tickets, Gmail drafts, Slack posts) drafted for a person to approve, and a flat $24 or $100 a month on your own AI key.
Comparison
Enhanciar vs Onyx (Danswer): a hosted alternative
Onyx, formerly Danswer, is the best-known open-source option for AI search over company apps. If you don’t want to run servers, or want the follow-up done too, here is the honest comparison.
When to pick Onyx
- Your data must stay on your own servers or in an air-gapped network.
- You want open source you can read and change (Onyx Community Edition is MIT-licensed).
- You want to run your own models through Ollama, vLLM or LiteLLM.
- You have someone to deploy, monitor and upgrade it, or you prefer Onyx Cloud with SOC 2 Type II.
When to pick Enhanciar
- You want a hosted Onyx or Danswer alternative: no Docker, Kubernetes, index storage or upgrades to run.
- You want the answer to turn into work: a Gmail reply saved to Drafts, a Jira or Linear ticket, a Notion page, a Slack post or a calendar event, each waiting in an Actions queue until a person approves it. Onyx’s docs describe custom actions but no approval step.
- You need every answer to link to the exact Slack message, email, doc paragraph, ticket or line of code, or you won’t trust it.
- Engineers ask too: it reads GitHub (syncing on every push), answers “what breaks if I change this?” and reviews pull requests on repos where you turn it on.
- You want one flat price: Solo $24/month, or Team $100/month for up to 10 people, not per seat. Ten people on Onyx Cloud Business is $200 a month, billed annually.
Side by side
Price, connectors, sources and follow-ups.
| Enhanciar | Onyx | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Solo $24/mo; Team $100/mo flat for up to 10 people (not per seat); Enterprise custom. Billed monthly, paid plans only; you also pay your AI provider at cost | Onyx Cloud Business $20 per user/month, billed annually; Enterprise contact sales. Self-hosting the MIT-licensed Community Edition costs nothing in licence fees (you pay for servers and your model) |
| Connectors | GitHub (syncs on every push), Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Zendesk, Postgres and MySQL, websites, file uploads | About 50 connectors, including Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Jira, Linear, Confluence, GitHub, Zendesk and Notion. Not listed: Google Calendar, SQL databases |
| Answers cite sources | Yes: every answer links to the Slack message, email, doc paragraph, ticket or file:line it came from, and it says it doesn’t know when it can’t ground a claim | Yes: sources and citations shown beside each answer |
| Drafts follow-ups for approval | Yes, you approve first: a Gmail reply saved to Drafts, a Jira or Linear ticket, a Notion page, a Slack post, a calendar event, a Zendesk internal note or a GitHub issue waits in an Actions queue until a person approves it | Built-in actions are search, web search, code execution and image generation; admins can add custom actions via MCP or OpenAPI. No human-approval step is described |
| Reviews pull requests | Yes, on repos where you turn it on; posted on the PR with the whole codebase as context | Not stated |
| MCP | Yes: remote MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other clients (Official MCP Registry: in.enhanciar/enhanciar); agents can propose actions, never approve them | Yes: MCP client for custom actions, and an MCP server |
| Bring your own AI key | Yes, required: your own Gemini, OpenAI or Anthropic key; Enhanciar adds $0 on AI usage | Yes: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or self-hosted models through Ollama, vLLM or LiteLLM |
| Hosting | Hosted only, on Google Cloud (content stored in Mumbai, India); Enterprise gets a dedicated deployment; no self-hosted version | Onyx Cloud, or self-host on your own servers, VPC or Kubernetes; can run air-gapped |
| Setup | Self-serve: sign up, paste an AI key, connect a source and ask the same day; the first sync of a big source takes longer | Cloud: self-serve with a trial. Self-host: Docker Compose or Kubernetes, which you run and upgrade |
Competitor details from each vendor’s own pages, checked October 2026 (links in Sources); summarised, not quoted. A dash or “not stated” means the pages we checked don’t describe it, not that it is missing.
Then hand it the follow-up
Ask it anything. Hand it the follow-up.
After the answer, say what you need. It drafts the work and waits in your Actions queue for a person to approve.
Review this PR
Turn these notes into Linear tickets
Draft the reply to Acme
Add it to the calendar
Write the decision up in Notion
Post the summary to #product
Orange dot: waits for your approval. Teal dot: pull-request review posts on its own, only on repos where you turn it on.
What actually differs
Both answer questions from company apps with citations, both have an MCP server, and both let you choose your own model. Onyx’s advantage is control: self-host it anywhere, including air-gapped, with self-hosted models. That control has a cost in people’s time: someone deploys it, keeps the indexes healthy and upgrades it.
Enhanciar is hosted only (there is no self-hosted version; Enterprise gets a dedicated deployment), so there is nothing to run. It also goes past search: after an answer you can say “file that as a Linear ticket” or “draft the reply”, and the draft waits in an Actions queue until a person approves it. It reads Google Calendar and Postgres or MySQL databases, which Onyx’s connector list does not include. Enhanciar’s SOC 2 Type II audit is in progress, not finished; it has no Microsoft Teams app and no CRM or HR connectors yet.
Searching for a “hosted Danswer alternative”? Onyx Cloud is the hosted version of Onyx itself; Enhanciar is a different hosted product with approval-first follow-ups. Compare both against Glean and Dust too.
Related
FAQ
Things people ask.
Is Onyx the same as Danswer?
Yes. Danswer renamed itself Onyx; the open-source project lives at github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx.
How much does Onyx cost?
Self-hosting the MIT-licensed Community Edition has no licence fee. Onyx Cloud Business is $20 per user a month, billed annually; Enterprise (SSO, on-premise and region-specific deployments) is contact sales.
What is a hosted alternative to Onyx or Danswer?
Onyx Cloud is Onyx’s own hosted version. Other hosted options include Enhanciar, which answers from Slack, Gmail, Drive, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Zendesk, GitHub and databases with a link to every source and drafts follow-ups for approval, and Glean and Dust.
Can Onyx create Jira tickets?
Onyx supports custom actions that admins add through MCP or OpenAPI; its docs do not describe a human approval step. Enhanciar drafts Jira and Linear tickets, Gmail drafts, Slack posts and more, and each waits until a person approves it.
Can I self-host Enhanciar?
No. Enhanciar is hosted; content is stored on Google Cloud in Mumbai, India. Enterprise customers get a dedicated deployment. If you must self-host, Onyx is the better fit.
How much does Enhanciar cost?
Solo is $24 a month and Team is $100 a month for up to 10 people (one flat price, not per seat), billed monthly; Enterprise is custom. Every plan is paid, and you bring your own Gemini, OpenAI or Anthropic key and pay that provider directly; Enhanciar adds $0 on AI usage.
Sources (checked October 2026)
Competitor facts come from each vendor’s own pages, checked October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check the linked page before you buy. Where a figure isn’t public we say “not public / contact sales”. Written by the Enhanciar team; if something here is out of date, email us and we’ll fix it.
See it
Hosted, cited, and it does the follow-up.
Paid plans from $24 a month, flat, not per seat. Bring your own AI key, connect your first source and ask.