# GPT4All vs Khoj

> Khoj has a score of 38.8 (E) against GPT4All's 36.3 (F). Both do local inference. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 13 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-04

Khoj has a score of 38.8 (E) against GPT4All's 36.3 (F). Both do local inference. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 13 points.

- GPT4All: grade F, 36.3/100, rank #438 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt4all.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gpt4all.json
- Khoj: grade E, 38.8/100, rank #426 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/khoj.json

## Which one, for what

Pick GPT4All for schema & documentation (+6).

Pick Khoj for reliability (+9), agent ergonomics (+5), maintenance & community (+13), transparency & trust (+7).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | GPT4All | Khoj | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 56 | 65 | Khoj +9 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 40 | 34 | GPT4All +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 41 | 46 | Khoj +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 29 | Khoj +1 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 6 | 19 | Khoj +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 64 | Khoj +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | -7 | |
| **Total** | | **36.3 · F** | **38.8 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | GPT4All | Khoj |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |
| Vendor | Nomic, Inc. | Khoj Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (app, backend and bindings). Models downloaded through the app carry their own licences | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Tools exposed | none | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2025-02-24 | 2026-03-26 |
| Popularity | 77k stars, 11k PyPI/wk | 38k stars |
| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | 1/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**GPT4All.** MIT, with installers for Windows x64 and ARM64, macOS 12.6 or later and Linux, and published minimum and recommended hardware. No release since 24 February 2025 and no commit to main since 27 May 2025.

**Khoj.** AGPL-3.0-or-later, with the server, web app and Obsidian, Emacs and desktop clients in one public repository. No tagged release since 2.0.0-beta.28 on 26 March 2026 and no commit since 2 August.

## Before you call either

### GPT4All

1. Ask the owner to tick Enable Local API Server in Settings. Nothing answers on port 4891 until they do
2. Leave out `stream`, `tools`, `tool_choice` and `response_format`. The server returns 400 for each
3. Use the model's display name from /v1/models, such as "Phi-3 Mini Instruct"
4. Read LocalDocs snippets from `choices[0].references`. Collections can only be switched on in the app
5. Plan tool use outside GPT4All. Its API can't call tools

### Khoj

1. Install with `pip install --pre khoj` or a 2.0.0-beta image tag. Plain `pip install khoj` and `latest` give 1.42.10 from July 2025
2. Point the Obsidian, Emacs or desktop client at your own server. They default to app.khoj.dev, which shut down on 15 April 2026
3. Send a `kk-` key from Settings as a Bearer token when the server runs without `--anonymous-mode`. In anonymous mode /auth isn't mounted and no key exists
4. Call `GET /api/search?q=...&n=5` for passages and put `file:"notes.md"` or `dt>="2026-01-01"` inside `q` to filter. No route is documented
5. Set `KHOJ_TELEMETRY_DISABLE=True` before the first start. Tagged releases send the caller's IP with telemetry

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## Disclosure

- Khoj competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds, and LocalGhost's own about page names it as a competitor. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.