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Freemium

The desktop app is free and MIT licensed. Mintplex Labs sells a hosted cloud version.

 Free

Free and open source. Using a third-party cloud model through Jan costs whatever that…

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Chat, vector database and document pipeline in one install, no setup
  • Works fully locally, or with a cloud provider key if you prefer
  • Runs fully offline on your own computer when you want it to
  • Same interface for local models and for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral and others
  • Answer quality depends on the local model, which on a normal laptop is modest
  • Indexing a large document set takes time and disk
  • Still pre-1.0 and moving fast; features appear and change between releases
  • Adding a cloud provider means putting that provider’s API key into the app
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: Apache-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 21, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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