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

Web Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Choice of many open-source models
  • Automatic model selection with Omni
  • 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
  • Generated answers may be inaccurate
  • Models run on Hugging Face's servers, not locally
  • 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
Web application Downloadable app
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Needs internet Works offline

Checked September 23, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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