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khoj-ai/khoj

Khoj is a self-hostable AI assistant that lets users chat with local or online LLMs, search their personal documents, and automate research tasks across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.

Project overview

It supports retrieval-augmented generation over personal knowledge bases and is accessible via multiple interfaces including Obsidian, Emacs, Desktop, Phone, and WhatsApp.

Project type: AI Agent · RAG · Workflow
Use cases: Chat Assistants · Knowledge Q&A · Search & Research · Image Processing · Automation
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: AGPL-3.0

Best for

General users, enterprise teams, and developers needing a self-hostable personal knowledge base with AI agent automation and local chat capabilities.

Key capabilities

Chat with any local or online LLM, including models such as llama3, qwen, gemma, mistral, gpt, claude, gemini, and deepseek.
Get answers from the internet and your docs (including image, pdf, markdown, org-mode, notion files) using semantic search.
Create agents with custom knowledge, persona, chat model and tools to take on specific roles.
Automate repetitive research tasks and receive personal newsletters and smart notifications delivered to your inbox.
Generate images, talk out loud, and play your messages.

Limitations and risks

GPU requirements and minimum hardware specifications are not documented.
Telemetry data collection practices are not documented.

Getting started

Visit the live hosted instance at https://app.khoj.dev to use it right away without any setup.

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Project comparisons

Evidence and sources

GitHub project description: Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research.
README: [Khoj](https://khoj.dev) is a personal AI app to extend your capabilities. It smoothly scales up from an on-device personal AI to a cloud-scale enterprise AI. - Chat with any loca…
README: Go to https://app.khoj.dev to see Khoj live.
README: Khoj is available as a cloud service, on-premises, or as a hybrid solution.
README: Yes! You can use Khoj right away at [https://app.khoj.dev](https://app.khoj.dev) — no setup required.

Reviewed at: 2026-07-17T09:02:18Z

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