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Kotaemon vs LocalGPT: catalog facts
Kotaemon	LocalGPT
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Chat with your own documents through a web interface Works with local or hosted language models	Documents and queries stay on your own machine Hybrid vector and full-text search with reranking
Needs a server or local setup rather than a simple installer Answer quality depends on the model you connect	No packaged releases; you set it up from source Requires Ollama and enough hardware for local models
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	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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