# Foundry Local vs Khoj (slim)

> Foundry Local scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do local inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Foundry Local scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do local inference.

- Foundry Local: C 60.5, rank #461 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foundry-local.min.md
- Khoj: E 38.5, rank #813 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.min.md
- Foundry Local, good for An application that ships a model to end users' Windows, macOS or Linux devices and wants NPU and GPU variants chosen automatically, especially on Windows. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 53 against 34; Agent ergonomics, 61 against 46; Security & auth, 39 against 29; Maintenance & community, 88 against 19; Transparency & trust, 72 against 60. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Khoj loses 7 points for them.
- Khoj, good for One person who wants a self-hosted assistant over their own notes and documents, reached from Obsidian or Emacs, with a local or hosted model, and who will read the source to script it.

| Category | Foundry Local | Khoj |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 53 | 34 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 61 | 46 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 39 | 29 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 19 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Foundry Local | Khoj |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | Model platform |
| Vendor | Microsoft | Khoj Inc. |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Licence | MIT for the SDKs and the v2 native runtime. The CLI is closed source under Microsoft Software Licence Terms. Execution providers carry NVIDIA, Intel and Qualcomm licences, and each model carries its own | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-03-26 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-06-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.6k stars, 105k npm/wk, 47k PyPI/wk | 38k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 1/5 (2) |