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Chatbox vs Jan: catalog facts
Chatbox	Jan
Freemium The community edition is free and open source, and using it with your own API keys costs…	Free Free and open source. Using a third-party cloud model through Jan costs whatever that…
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, 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	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
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	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	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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