Khoj
Khoj is an open-source AI second brain that learns from your notes (Obsidian, EMACS), documents, and has access to the internet. It can replace your search engine, help you with reading papers, and get you transparent, fast answers.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- AI Writing
- AI-Powered
- Personal-assistant
- AI Chatbot
- Text to Image Generation
- No Coding Required
- Works Offline
- Full-Text Search
- Text to Speech
- Cloud Sync
- Live Preview
- Ad-free
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Spell Checking
- Dark Mode
- Semantic Search
Tags
- Artificial intelligence
- AI Assistant
- retrieval-augmented-generation
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Khoj information
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Khoj Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase that costs $0, and / or subscription that costs $30 per month + free version with limited functionality.Written in
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What is Khoj?
Khoj is an open-source AI second brain that learns from your notes (Obsidian, EMACS), documents, and has access to the internet. It can replace your search engine, help you with reading papers, and get you transparent, fast answers.
Khoj started with the founding principle that a personal assistant be understandable, accessible and hackable. This means you can always customize and self-host your Khoj on your own machines. If you self-host Khoj, your data never leaves your machine.
You can also share your conversations with others for greater productivity.
Main Features
Research Mode
- Your AI Second Brain: Ask questions, understand documents and create new content.
- Start Thinking
Personalization
- Personalized Recommendations: Adjust AI agents to your needs.
- Features:
- Customizable
- Adaptable
- Find an Agent
Automation
- Delegation of Repetitive Tasks: Receive research and event-based notifications.
- Features:
- Custom newsletters
- Timely research
- Dynamic notifications
- Schedule
Multimodal
- Complex Answers: Integrates information from documents and internet.
- Features:
- Generation of images, diagrams and charts
- Voice chat
- Ask
Transparency
- Clear Explanations: Verify AI reasoning and research.
- Ask
Compatible Models
- Supported Models:
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- HuggingFace
- Azure OpenAI Service
- LMStudio
- Ollama
- Mistral
- Replicate
- Configure
Comments and Reviews
I like this tool! It has most of the functionalities I need: synchronizing my org-roam notes and EMACS Journal, creating personalized agents with my own data using org-mode syntax, connecting to EMACS, offering multiple models including Anthropic and OpenAI (with subscription), WhatsApp integration, and Linux client support. All of this is developed with free and open-source software. The only consideration is that external models like Claude and ChatGPT might send data to external servers, but otherwise, Khoj supposedly and in theory maintains strong data and conversation protection policies.
Khoj is a tool for offline semantic search (smart search), plus it can generate answers from your documents using local/offline AI models, or online models like OpenAI. The problem is that it's VERY cumbersome to set up to run in your own computer compared to alternatives like Reor (less features than Khoj).
None of the "alternatives" listed for Khoj are relevant, like ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.