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Chatbox vs Gai: catalog facts
Chatbox	Gai
Freemium The community edition is free and open source, and using it with your own API keys costs…	Free Free download; listed on Flathub under GPL-3.0-or-later.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
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	Prompts and generated content stored locally No account needed for core features
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	Generation depends on the developer's server APIs Little public detail on which models are used
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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