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Immich vs Jan

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	Immich Self-hosted photo library with AI search and face recognition. Visit	Jan Run open-source AI chatbots offline on your own computer. Visit
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Pricing	Free	Free
Category	Productivity	Chatbots
Tags	practical-ossopen-sourceself-hostedphotos	practical-ossopen-sourceself-hostedoffline
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Pros	Full Google Photos-style experience you host yourself, keeping photos private Automatic phone backup via polished native iOS and Android apps Local AI: CLIP-powered natural-language search and on-device face recognition Multi-user accounts, shared and partner albums, and a global map view Fully open source under AGPL-3.0 with a very active development community	Runs LLMs fully offline on your own hardware, so conversations stay private by default Simple point-and-click model downloads from Hugging Face, no command line required Genuinely open source under the permissive Apache-2.0 license Exposes an OpenAI-compatible local API server (localhost:1337) for wiring into other apps Optionally connects to cloud providers and supports MCP for agent-style tool use
Cons	You are responsible for your own backups; a server failure can lose irreplaceable memories Requires running and maintaining a Docker-based server stack The machine-learning features benefit from more RAM and ideally a capable CPU or GPU AGPL-3.0 has copyleft obligations that matter if you modify and offer it as a service	Local model quality depends heavily on your RAM and GPU; small models are far weaker than ChatGPT or Claude Decent performance effectively needs 16GB+ RAM and ideally a supported GPU Still maturing, with a fairly high open issue count and occasional rough edges Building from source on Windows is involved and requires a full compiler toolchain

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