Khoj
Khoj AIPersonal assistant that answers over your own documents and the web, run on infrastructure you operate. It chats with cloud or local models, runs semantic search over PDF, Markdown, org-mode, Word and Notion content, builds agents with their own knowledge bases, schedules automations and performs deep research. Clients cover the browser, Obsidian, Emacs, desktop, mobile and WhatsApp.
The paid hosted tier was retired on 15 April 2026 and users are directed to run it themselves, so no feature gating remains in the shipping product. Verified 2026-08-13 via the khoj-ai/khoj repository and the Khoj Cloud sunset notice.
Openness
5 high confidence- 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.
- https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj recorded 2026-08-13
AGPL-3.0 license; ~35k stars; self-hostable AI personal assistant
- https://app.khoj.dev/ recorded 2026-08-13
official notice that Khoj Cloud was sunset 2026-04-15 and Khoj "remains fully open source"
Adoption
2 medium confidence19,532 PyPI downloads of khoj in the trailing 30 days, which falls in the 10K-100K band, level 2 on the software and model adoption scale.
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/khoj/recent recorded 2026-08-13
19,532 downloads in the trailing 30 days for khoj
Capability
4 medium confidenceBroad 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.
- https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj recorded 2026-08-13
feature set: multi-provider, personal-doc RAG, agents, automations, multimodal, multi-client
Verified 2026-08-13