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Khoj vs Jan

KhojJan

	Khoj A self-hosted AI second brain for your notes and docs. Visit	Jan Run open-source AI chatbots offline on your own computer. Visit
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Pricing	Freemium	Free
Category	Note Taking	Chatbots
Tags	practical-ossopen-sourceself-hostedknowledge	practical-ossopen-sourceself-hostedoffline
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Pros	Chat with and search across your own notes, documents, and PDFs in natural language Runs with local models for privacy or cloud models for more capability Integrates into Obsidian and Emacs, plus web, desktop, and mobile clients Surfaces the source documents behind its answers, not just a bare reply Open source under AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable, with a managed cloud option too	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	Self-hosting involves a Docker stack and some configuration to get running well Local-model quality and speed depend on your hardware; cloud models cost money Indexing large or messy document collections can take tuning to get good results AGPL-3.0 copyleft terms matter if you modify and offer it as a hosted 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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