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LocalGPTGPT4All
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence.

 Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence, including for commercial use.

Self-hosted Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Documents and queries stay on your own machine
  • Hybrid vector and full-text search with reranking
  • LocalDocs answers questions from your own files, entirely on your machine
  • Runs on CPU; no API calls and no GPU required
  • No packaged releases; you set it up from source
  • Requires Ollama and enough hardware for local models
  • The latest release, 3.10.0, dates from February 2025
  • Nomic’s website now foregrounds a separate commercial platform rather than GPT4All
Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: MIT
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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