Start with the hosted Discord bot or run Sage on your own OpenAI-compatible stack.
Open-source Discord AI runtime
One Discord AI runtime for fast hosted setup and serious self-hosted control.
Sage helps community teams answer questions, moderate with approvals, search the web, summarize context, and grow into a provider-flexible self-hosted stack when they need more control.
What Sage does well
- Answer questions with layered Discord context
- Support live research when freshness matters
- Keep moderation and governance review-aware
- Move from hosted evaluation to self-hosted ownership
Sage works inside normal conversation instead of forcing slash-command workflows.
Higher-impact moderation and admin actions stay reviewable inside Discord.
Two clear paths
Start the way your team actually buys and adopts software.
Sage now separates the hosted and self-hosted stories so community operators and technical builders both have a clean path into the product.
Start with the hosted Discord AI bot
Get Sage live for your server quickly, activate it in Discord, and let non-technical operators use it without infrastructure work.
- Fastest path for community operators
- Internal docs and setup guidance on the website
- Clear path to later self-hosting
Self-host Sage when control matters
Run Sage with your own provider, infrastructure, data policies, and optional tool stack while keeping the same Discord-native product story.
- Provider-flexible runtime
- Docs for setup, security, and operations
- Built for technical evaluators and builders
Top use cases
Support, moderation, and clearer product evaluation.
Community support
Answer repeated questions, recall past context, and turn documentation plus Discord history into faster support.
Explore support workflowsModeration and governance
Keep actions chat-first while routing destructive changes through approvals and reviewer-visible context.
Explore moderationCompare Sage vs MEE6
See where Sage differs from traditional Discord bots in AI workflows, approvals, and self-hosted control.
Read the comparison Docs first
Website docs for the first click. Repo docs for engineering depth.
Quickstart
Get the fastest hosted or self-hosted path without leaving the site for your first click.
Read quickstartSelf-hosting guide
Understand the runtime, setup flow, and operator choices before you clone the repo.
Read self-hosting guideSecurity and privacy
See what Sage stores, how approvals work, and what privacy controls operators can use.
Review security Lower funnel depth
Technical evaluators can still inspect the runtime story.
Memory, research, and governed actions in one runtime
Sage combines layered memory, live research, attachment recall, and review-aware actions in one Discord-native execution path.
Provider-flexible and OpenAI-compatible
Self-hosted deployments can point Sage at compatible providers while keeping the same chat-first operator experience.
LangGraph and deeper architecture stay below the fold
Technical evaluators can inspect architecture and runtime details without forcing that language into every top-funnel page.
Why teams look at Sage instead of another Discord bot
Sage is designed for communities that have outgrown command-heavy bots and generic AI wrappers. It keeps the interaction model native to Discord while giving operators a cleaner path into memory, live research, approvals, and self-hosting.
What changes for operators
- Sage can answer with channel context instead of only a stateless prompt.
- It keeps the first-use story simple for hosted adoption.
- It exposes richer controls for teams that want to run their own stack later.
What changes for builders
- The runtime story is clearer than a pile of disconnected bot features.
- Provider flexibility is part of the product narrative, not an afterthought.
- Website docs now act as the public product surface, while the repo docs stay available for engineering depth.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is Sage?
Sage is an open-source Discord AI runtime that helps communities answer questions, research live information, moderate with approvals, and choose between a hosted bot path and self-hosted deployment.
Is Sage only for developers?
No. Community operators can start with the hosted path, while builders and platform teams can evaluate self-hosting, configuration, and architecture when they need more control.
Can Sage be self-hosted?
Yes. Sage supports provider-flexible self-hosting and documents the setup, security, and operational flow in the repo and the website docs.