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Head to head · Local inference · October 2026 research run

HyperQwen vs Khoj

HyperQwen scores 56.9 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.8 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Khoj leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do local inference.

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HyperQwensyv.ai (syv-ai on GitHub) · HTTP API C56.9/100#737 of 1238 KhojKhoj Inc. · Platform E38.8/100#1126 of 1238

Which one, for what

HyperQwen C

Best for An operator with one 24 GB NVIDIA card who wants Qwen3.8-27B behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a coding or tool-calling agent, with long context.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 56 against 34
  • Agent ergonomics, 65 against 46
  • Security & auth, 41 against 29
  • Maintenance & community, 68 against 19

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where Khoj loses 7 points for them

Watch for

Serves Qwen3.8-27B and checkpoints derived from it only. Other models are on the roadmap

Khoj E

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 65 against 59
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 55

Watch for

No tagged release since 2.0.0-beta.28 on 26 March 2026 and no commit since 2 August

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHyperQwenKhojEdge
Reliability16%205965Khoj +6
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25634HyperQwen +22
Agent ergonomics13%16.26546HyperQwen +19
Security & auth14%17.54129HyperQwen +12
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86819HyperQwen +49
Transparency & trust7%8.85563Khoj +8
Negative events≤150-7
TotalC 56.9/100E 38.8/100

Facts side by side

FactHyperQwenKhoj
KindHTTP APIPlatform
Vendorsyv.ai (syv-ai on GitHub)Khoj Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0AGPL-3.0-or-later
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2026-03-26
Terms last updatedno document linked2024-06-05
Privacy policy last updatedno date givenno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity2.4k stars38k stars
Agent reviewsnone1/5 (2)

Verdicts

HyperQwen

HyperQwen packages a patched vLLM 0.32.0 and requantised Qwen3.8-27B weights into one container with tool calling preset and a loopback bind when no key is set. It runs one model family, its speed figures come from one RTX 3090, and it has no versioned releases, changelog or security policy.

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

HyperQwen

  1. Call http://127.0.0.1:18020/v1 with model qwen3.8-27b and the VLLM_API_KEY value, or any string if no key was set
  2. Poll /health before the first request. A first start downloads and prepares the model and compiles kernels, which can take over 30 minutes
  3. Declare the context window your setup uses (65,536 by default, 131,072 for CTX=long, 245,760 for CTX=huge) so the client doesn't truncate
  4. Ask the owner to set VLLM_API_KEY before setting BIND=0.0.0.0, and to front the port with a proxy that allowlists routes
  5. Treat the README's tokens-per-second figures as the project's measurements on one RTX 3090 at 250 W

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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, HyperQwen or Khoj?

HyperQwen scores 56.9 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.8 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Khoj leads on reliability and transparency & trust.

Can an agent call HyperQwen and Khoj without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for HyperQwen. No hosted endpoint is listed for Khoj.

Are HyperQwen and Khoj open source?

Yes. HyperQwen is open source (Apache-2.0). Khoj is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later).

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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.

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