What is Kompas AI?
Local-first thinking and writing workspace with your sources.
Who is Kompas AI best for?
Kompas AI is best for writers and researchers who want an AI thinking partner that keeps their work on their computer.
Essayists and long-form writers
A thinking session turns into a draft that draws on your own earlier notes, and the app is built to write with you rather than write for you.
Researchers
Documents, highlights, voice notes and web pages feed a graph that links each new session to what you read and wrote before.
Privacy-minded note takers
The free desktop app keeps everything on your machine, can run on local models through Ollama, and is open source under the MIT license.
Obsidian and Logseq users
It adds an AI partner that questions and builds on a note collection, for people who want more than a place to store material.
How much does Kompas AI cost?
Kompas AI is free on the desktop if you bring your own AI key or a local model, and its paid plans cost $3 a month for Pro Sync or $38 a month for Pro Full with AI built in.
- Unlimited local sessions, library, writing and graph
- Your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, Claude Code or Codex, or Ollama
- One device, no sync
- Sync between your desktops
- 5 GB of hosted graph storage, 10 GB hard cap
- Still bring your own AI; no built-in credits
- Built-in AI with no API key, within a monthly usage pool
- Sync between your desktops, priority email support
- 7-day free trial with no card
Paying yearly, Pro Sync is $30 a year and Pro Full $33 a month. Prices are charged in US dollars, so your bank may add conversion fees. Pro Full's pool covers long-context sessions, transcription and knowledge extraction, and shows your usage before any optional top-up. On Free and Pro Sync, realtime voice and transcription need an OpenAI key. If you cancel Pro, the app drops back to Free and your hosted graph is kept for 30 days. Full pricing on kompas.ai. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Kompas AI
What is Kompas AI?
Local-first thinking and writing workspace with your sources.
Who is Kompas AI for?
Kompas AI is best for writers and researchers who want an AI thinking partner that keeps their work on their computer.
Is Kompas AI free?
Yes, the Kompas AI desktop app is free forever on macOS and Windows, with unlimited local sessions, but you supply the AI: your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, a Claude Code or Codex subscription, or a local model through Ollama. Built-in AI needs Pro Full at $38 a month.
How much does Kompas AI cost?
Kompas AI's paid plans are Pro Sync at $3 per month and Pro Full at $38 per month.
Where can I try Kompas AI?
On its official website, kompas.ai.
Does Kompas AI work offline?
Partly. On the free desktop app you can read and edit your local data offline, and text AI features can run offline on a local model through Ollama, though voice transcription still needs an OpenAI key. Pro Full's built-in AI and sync need a connection.
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