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Open source alternative to Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Glean
Khoj is an open source personal AI assistant that searches your notes, documents, and the web for research-grade answers. Self-hosted, AGPL-3.0 licensed, with no data sent to external servers.
Use Khoj to ask questions across PDFs, markdown, web research, and Notion exports while keeping the deployment under your control.
Skip if your documents are few enough to paste into a normal AI chat.
Use custom agents and scheduled notifications to turn recurring research into personal newsletters or alerts.
Skip if you need enterprise-wide knowledge governance and admin analytics first.
Khoj can answer from the internet and user documents, including PDFs, markdown, org-mode, Word, Notion files, and images.
The README lists local and hosted model families, including Llama, Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, GPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.
Users can create agents with custom knowledge, persona, chat model, and tools, then schedule newsletters and smart notifications.
Yes. The README describes Khoj as open source and self-hostable, with setup docs for running it privately.
The README lists image, PDF, markdown, org-mode, Word, Notion files, and web sources.
Chat with your documents using any LLM, private and self-hosted
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Run open source LLMs on your own hardware with no cloud required
Generic AI chat loses context unless users repeatedly upload files, paste notes, or rebuild prompts. Teams and individuals also need control over which local or online models read private PDFs, markdown, Notion exports, images, and research material.
Khoj is better when the assistant needs persistent access to your own notes, files, agents, and local or self-hosted models. ChatGPT is still easier for general-purpose hosted chat, broad model access, and users who do not want to run infrastructure.
No. Khoj can work with local and online LLMs, including several open model families and hosted providers.