EduNeko Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
General
What is EduNeko?
An AI study tool for your own notes. Upload a document, then revise it, chat with it, quiz yourself on it, or turn it into flashcards. Answers are grounded in your material and cite the page they came from.
What happened to EduCat?
Retired. EduNeko is the same idea, rebuilt — see the launch post for the story.
Is it free?
Self-hosting is free. The full application is open source under AGPL-3.0.
Cloud hosted version is also available for those who do not wish to self-host. Application required to access and use. Apply via here.
What can I upload?
PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, plain text — and since v1.4, images (PNG, JPEG, WebP). Images are read by a vision model at upload, including text and charts, so they work with chat, quizzes, revision, and flashcards like any other document.
Does it remember things about me?
Only if you turn that on. Memory is opt-in and off by default. When enabled, EduNeko keeps notes from your chats and can recall earlier conversations; everything it remembers is listed on your profile, where you can edit or delete any of it.
Does it search the web?
It can, but that's also off by default. When you switch it on, your question — not your documents — is turned into a search query, and the answer says which pages it read.
Can I get my data out?
Flashcard decks export to Anki. Your uploaded files are just files on your own server if you self-host.
Cloud hosted version
Are there usage limits?
Yes. Every account has an hourly and a daily cap on AI actions — chatting, quizzing, revising, generating flashcards. Heavier actions cost more usage, such as a message with web search uses extra usage since it does several times the work. Your remaining usage is shown on your profile, and the caps reset on their own.
The usage limits are adjusted daily based on the demand and capacity.
Why do I sometimes see "AI is busy"?
The hosted version runs on a shared AI backend, and only so many requests run at once. When it's full, yours waits briefly in a queue; if the queue is full too, you get the busy message instead of a silent hang.
Is there a storage limit?
Yes — each account has a storage quota, and single uploads have a size cap. Your usage is shown on your profile and in the upload dialog, and deleting old documents frees the space immediately.
What happens to my documents on the hosted version?
They're stored on our server and sent to the shared AI backend when you use an AI feature — that's it. Nothing is sold, shared, or used to train anything. Memory stays opt-in on the hosted version too. If that arrangement doesn't suit you, self-hosting exists precisely so you don't have to take our word for it.
Is the hosted version different from the open-source one?
No. It's the same application from the same repository.
Self-hosting
What do I need?
Docker and an Ollama endpoint. A bundled PostgreSQL profile means
docker compose up is the whole setup — set a session secret, point it at
your Ollama host, and you're running. Details are in the
README.
Where do my documents go?
To the model you configured, and nowhere else. EduNeko doesn't bundle a model or pick one for you — it talks to Ollama, so you can run a model entirely on your own machine or point it at any Ollama-compatible endpoint.
Do I need an identity provider?
No. EduNeko works with any standard OAuth2/OIDC provider if you have one, but single-user mode takes one password and no provider at all — the right choice for a personal deployment.
Do the usage limits apply to me?
They exist, but you set them. Rate limits, storage quotas, upload caps, and the concurrency gate are all environment variables, there to protect a shared AI account on a multi-user deployment. Running solo against your own machine, you can raise them or effectively turn them off.
For more information about EduNeko, check out the introduction launch blog post.