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Khoj vs LocalGPT: catalog facts
Khoj	LocalGPT
Freemium Free to self-host; the hosted service has free and paid plans.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Searches and chats over your own documents Works with local or remote language models	Documents and queries stay on your own machine Hybrid vector and full-text search with reranking
Self-hosting takes some setup work The company now spreads its effort across several products	No packaged releases; you set it up from source Requires Ollama and enough hardware for local models
Web application, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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