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LocalGPT vs AnythingLLM: catalog facts
LocalGPT	AnythingLLM
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Freemium The desktop app is free and MIT licensed. Mintplex Labs sells a hosted cloud version.
Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux
Documents and queries stay on your own machine Hybrid vector and full-text search with reranking	Chat, vector database and document pipeline in one install, no setup Works fully locally, or with a cloud provider key if you prefer
No packaged releases; you set it up from source Requires Ollama and enough hardware for local models	Answer quality depends on the local model, which on a normal laptop is modest Indexing a large document set takes time and disk
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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