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GPT4AllJan
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence, including for commercial use.

 Free

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

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, macOS, Linux
  • LocalDocs answers questions from your own files, entirely on your machine
  • Runs on CPU; no API calls and no GPU required
  • 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
  • The latest release, 3.10.0, dates from February 2025
  • Nomic’s website now foregrounds a separate commercial platform rather than GPT4All
  • 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: MIT License: Apache-2.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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