What is Khoj?
Personal AI that answers from your notes, PDFs and the web, with any local or online model.
Who is Khoj best for?
Khoj is best for privacy-minded note takers who want an AI chat that searches their own files and the web.
Chat over your own notes
Khoj reads PDFs, Markdown, org-mode files, Word documents and Notion pages, and uses them when it answers.
Fully offline AI
Offline chat runs through Ollama, llama.cpp server, vLLM or any OpenAI-compatible local server, with no internet needed.
Obsidian and Emacs users
Clients for Obsidian, Emacs, the desktop and the browser all talk to the same Khoj server.
Scheduled research
Automations run a query at a set time and frequency and email you what Khoj finds.
How much does Khoj cost?
Khoj is free to self-host under AGPL 3.0, and there is no paid plan: the hosted Khoj Cloud service has shut down.
- AGPL 3.0, every feature included
- Docker Compose or pip install
- Local models or your own API keys
Khoj Cloud, the hosted service at app.khoj.dev, has shut down. Its makers now focus on Open Paper and Pipali, and Khoj stays open source for self-hosting. Full pricing on github.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is Khoj open source?
Yes. Khoj's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
38,118stars
+451 (+1.2%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 2 Aug
- Repository age
- 5 years
- Latest release
- 26 Mar
- Licence
- AGPL 3.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- khoj-ai/khoj
What are the best Khoj alternatives?
Khoj is an open source alternative to ChatPDF, Gemini Notebook, Claude and Perplexity. Jan and Scira do the same job and are open source too.
ChatPDFFreeChat with PDFs and get answers with page citations.
Gemini NotebookFreeResearch grounded in your sources, with audio and video overviews.
ClaudeFreeAnthropic's assistant and the Claude models, Fable 5.1 included.
PerplexityFreeSearch that answers with sources, plus deep research.
JanOpen SourceDesktop app that runs open AI models offline on your computer or connects to cloud model APIs.
SciraOpen SourceResearch assistant that finds answers and acts across 100+ apps.
Questions about Khoj
What is Khoj?
Personal AI that answers from your notes, PDFs and the web, with any local or online model.
Who is Khoj for?
Khoj is best for privacy-minded note takers who want an AI chat that searches their own files and the web.
Is Khoj free?
Yes. Khoj has a free Self-hosted plan: AGPL 3.0, every feature included.
Is Khoj open source?
Yes. Khoj's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Khoj alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are ChatPDF, Gemini Notebook, Claude, Perplexity, Jan and Scira.
Where can I try Khoj?
On its official website, docs.khoj.dev.
Is Khoj Cloud still available?
No. Khoj's makers shut down the hosted Khoj Cloud service, and app.khoj.dev now shows a notice. Khoj stays fully open source, so you can still run it yourself with Docker or pip and keep your data on your own machine.
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