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Jan vs AnythingLLM: catalog facts
Jan	AnythingLLM
Free Free and open source. Using a third-party cloud model through Jan costs whatever that…	Freemium The desktop app is free and MIT licensed. Mintplex Labs sells a hosted cloud version.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
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	Chat, vector database and document pipeline in one install, no setup Works fully locally, or with a cloud provider key if you prefer
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	Answer quality depends on the local model, which on a normal laptop is modest Indexing a large document set takes time and disk
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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