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Khoj

Khoj AI

Open-source, self-hostable "AI second brain" / personal assistant. Chat with any cloud or local LLM, get answers grounded in your own documents (PDF, Markdown, org-mode, Word, Notion) and the web, run semantic search, build custom agents with their own knowledge bases, schedule automations, and do deep research. The differentiator is privacy-first personal RAG surfaced across many clients - browser, Obsidian, Emacs, desktop, mobile, and WhatsApp - with everything runnable on your own infrastructure.

AGPL-3.0; ~35k GitHub stars and ~26k PyPI downloads/month by mid-2026. Khoj Cloud (the former paid hosted tier) was sunset 2026-04-15; the team directs all users to self-host and states Khoj "remains fully open source", so no feature-gating remains in the shipping product. Self-host via Docker or pip.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
AGPL-3.0(OSI)
source
public(github.com/khoj-ai/khoj)
self-host
primary(Docker+pip)
core-gated
ungated

OSI-licensed (AGPL-3.0), full source public, self-hostable via Docker or pip. The paid Khoj Cloud tier was discontinued 2026-04-15 and the team frames self-hosting as the complete replacement, so the earlier open-core characteristics no longer apply to the shipping product.

Adoption

3 medium confidence
3.0

~35k GitHub stars plus ~26k PyPI downloads/month (pypistats) - real install volume (usage_volume, not stars-only), but modest in absolute terms, so mid-tier. Hosted cloud is now discontinued.

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

Broad feature surface across providers, personal RAG, agents, automations, multimodality and many client integrations - on par with the leading open self-hosted assistants. Top-tier for the category.

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)