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Vane (formerly Perplexica) vs Khoj: catalog facts
Vane (formerly Perplexica)	Khoj
Free Free and open source under the MIT license.	Freemium Free to self-host; the hosted service has free and paid plans.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Supports fully local LLMs through Ollama for private searches Cites sources alongside generated answers	Searches and chats over your own documents Works with local or remote language models
Requires running your own search and model infrastructure Renamed from Perplexica, which may cause confusion for existing users	Self-hosting takes some setup work The company now spreads its effort across several products
Self-hosted, Web application	Web application, Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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