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

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