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Avelina AI: a self-hosted personal AI assistant with memory that lives in Telegram

Most AI assistants keep your most personal conversations on someone else's servers. Avelina takes the opposite approach: it is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs entirely on your own VPS, so your data never leaves your machine.

What is Avelina?

Avelina is a private AI assistant you fully own — a self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT, Claude and Replika. It lives inside Telegram, remembers you across every conversation, and grows a real personality over time. You deploy it on a $5-6/month Linux VPS with a one-command setup in about 30 minutes.

Why self-host your AI assistant?

  • Own your AI data. Your conversations stay on hardware you control — no third-party data sharing, no corporate cloud. This is AI data sovereignty in practice.
  • A private AI assistant, not a stateless chatbot. Cloud companions forget you between sessions. Avelina has persistent long-term memory — it is an AI assistant with memory that actually knows your history.
  • No new app to install. It runs as a Telegram AI bot, so you talk to it in an app you already use.

What makes Avelina different

Avelina is the first self-hosted AI assistant that is also a genuinely growing personality:

  • Persistent long-term memory — it remembers your life across conversations
  • An emotional core and a real voice that evolve with you
  • A self-evolution loop so it keeps learning and improving
  • A modular skills system to extend what it can do

How it works (the tech)

Avelina is built in TypeScript/Node.js on top of the Claude Agent SDK as its reasoning engine. Memory, emotions and a knowledge graph live in local SQLite databases, with local embeddings for semantic recall. The Telegram Bot API is the interface, and the whole system is self-hosted on any Linux VPS.

Deploy your own

If you want a self-hosted ChatGPT and Claude alternative that you own forever, you can set up your own instance here: avelina.ai.

Own your AI. Own your data.

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