Khoj
Open-source AI second brain that researches across your documents and the web with any model.
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About Khoj
Khoj is a personal AI assistant that answers questions from your own documents and from the web. You can build agents, schedule automations and plug in the language model of your choice, including models run locally.
The code is published on GitHub, so you can host Khoj yourself or use the version the company hosts. The same team also makes Open Paper, a tool for reading research papers, and Pipali, a desktop co-worker app.
Strengths
- Searches and chats over your own documents
- Works with local or remote language models
- Scheduled automations and custom agents
- Self-hostable open source code
Limitations
- Self-hosting takes some setup work
- The company now spreads its effort across several products
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to self-host; the hosted service has free and paid plans.
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Developer
- Khoj
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Web application, Self-hosted, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- People who want an AI assistant grounded in their own notes and files
- Categories
- Note-taking, Local AI tools, AI assistants
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Khoj
Compare allSoftware that can replace Khoj for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Kotaemon
An open-source, self-hosted RAG app for chatting with your documents using local or hosted models.
Kotaemon is a free, open-source, self-hosted app for chatting with your documents using local or hosted models, without Khoj's web research and scheduled automations.
RAGFlow
An open-source, self-hostable RAG engine with document ingestion, hybrid search and a visual agent builder.
RAGFlow is an open-source, self-hostable RAG engine with hybrid search and a visual agent builder, geared toward teams and needing a more involved server setup.
Gemini Notebook
Google's AI research notebook, formerly NotebookLM, that summarizes and answers questions about your uploaded sources.
Gemini Notebook is a closed Google web service that summarizes and answers questions about uploaded sources, requiring a Google account and no self-hosting option.
Local Deep Research
A self-hosted research assistant that runs multi-step searches with local or cloud language models.
Local Deep Research focuses on multi-step research reports across arXiv, PubMed and your own documents, with local encrypted storage.
LibreChat
Self-hosted open-source chat interface that brings many AI models and providers into one place.
LibreChat is an MIT-licensed self-hosted chat interface for many providers with agents and MCP, but it is less focused on your own notes.
Humata
An AI tool for asking questions about your documents, with cited answers and summaries.
Humata is a closed cloud service for cited answers across many uploaded files, with an API and web embedding but no self-hosting or local models.
Khoj as an alternative
Listings that name Khoj as an alternative.
AnythingLLM
A desktop AI app that answers questions about your own documents, with no account and no API key needed.
Khoj searches and chats over your documents and the web, adds scheduled automations and agents, and is self-hosted web software under AGPL-3.0 rather than a desktop app.
Blinko
An open-source, self-hosted note tool with AI features, built for private quick notes.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 self-hostable AI assistant that searches and chats over your own documents with local or remote models, rather than a quick-note app.
ChatPDF
An AI tool that summarizes PDFs and answers questions about them, with citations to the source.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 open-source assistant that searches and chats over your own documents and the web with local or remote models, and can be self-hosted.
Mem
An AI note-taking workspace with an agent that tracks your tasks, projects and goals from your notes.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 open-source assistant that searches and chats over your own documents with local or remote models, and can be self-hosted.
Open Notebook
Self-hosted, open source alternative to Google's NotebookLM.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 self-hostable assistant that researches across your documents and the web with local or remote models, adding scheduled automations and custom agents.
PrivateGPT
A self-hosted API layer for building private AI applications on top of local language models.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 self-hostable assistant that chats over your documents and the web, adding scheduled automations and custom agents with local or remote models.
Vane (formerly Perplexica)
Self-hosted, privacy-focused AI search engine with cited answers.
Khoj is an AGPL-3.0 self-hostable assistant that researches across the web and your own documents with local or remote models, adding automations and custom agents.
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Perplexity
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