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QAnything vs LocalGPT: catalog facts
QAnything	LocalGPT
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
One-command startup with Docker Compose Compose files for Linux, macOS and Windows	Documents and queries stay on your own machine Hybrid vector and full-text search with reranking
Last major version was 2.0 in 2024 Requires Docker and enough local resources to run the stack	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: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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