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Chatbox vs PyGPT: catalog facts
Chatbox	PyGPT
Freemium The community edition is free and open source, and using it with your own API keys costs…	Free Free and open source; cloud models are billed by their providers through your own API…
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	One app for many cloud providers and local Ollama models Agents, MCP tools, plugins and file RAG built in
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	Large feature set can be overwhelming Cloud models need your own paid API keys
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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