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Big-AGI vs Chatbox: catalog facts
Big-AGIChatbox
Freemium

Open-source version is free; a Pro subscription costs $10.99 per month.

Freemium

The community edition is free and open source, and using it with your own API keys costs…

Web, Self-hosted Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Works with many cloud providers and local model servers
  • Beam compares and merges answers from several models
  • Works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Azure and local Ollama models from one window
  • Conversations are stored locally rather than on someone else's server
  • Cloud models require your own paid API keys
  • Some features are part of the paid Pro tier
  • You need your own API keys, and those cost money per use
  • It is a client, so it cannot run a model itself without Ollama or similar
Web application, Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Needs internet

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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