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      "slug": "jan",
      "name": "Jan",
      "vendor": "Menlo Research",
      "vendorUrl": "https://jan.ai",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Open-source desktop app for running models locally or connecting to cloud models with the user's API keys.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jan.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/janhq/jan",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
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      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The Local API Server takes one optional key set in Settings, empty by default, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-Api-Key`. There are no scopes and no keys per client. It binds to 127.0.0.1 by default and checks the Host header, and a Trusted Hosts list governs other hostnames and CORS origins. In 0.8.4 a 0.0.0.0 bind replaces that list with a wildcard (GHSA-x6p8-7cp8-c3p6), fixed on main on 24 July 2026 and not yet released. `jan serve` takes `--api-key`, empty by default. Cloud provider keys sit in the OS keyring since 0.8.4.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and Apache-2.0, with no account and nothing to buy. Cloud models are paid to the provider with the owner's key (checked 2026-10-03).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 44800,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-03"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.jan.ai/docs/desktop/api-server",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janhq/jan/main/src-tauri/static/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "account-free",
        "openai-compatible",
        "openapi",
        "open-weights",
        "streaming",
        "pre-1.0"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-23",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 51.4,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 349,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 47,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 68,
          "schema": 56,
          "security": 43,
          "transparency": 69
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-07-24. GHSA-x6p8-7cp8-c3p6. In 0.8.4, the current release, binding the Local API Server to 0.0.0.0 replaces the Trusted Hosts list with a wildcard, so any Host header is accepted and any Origin reflected with credentials allowed, which with the default empty key lets any web page the owner visits call the server. The fix landed on main on 24 July 2026, no release carries it 71 days later, and the advisory isn't published. It needs a setting the docs flag as risky, -4. https://github.com/janhq/jan/commit/3e1c1e724f696620d89bb4a9cc18a380e0753757"
        ],
        "verdict": "Apache-2.0, with installers for macOS, Windows and Linux plus Flathub and the Microsoft Store. No release since 0.8.4 on 23 July 2026, while a security fix waits on main.",
        "strengths": [
          "Apache-2.0, with installers for macOS, Windows and Linux plus Flathub and the Microsoft Store",
          "Product analytics off until the user agrees at first launch, with a toggle in Settings",
          "MCP tool calls ask for approval by default, and server-side tool execution through the API is off by default",
          "The local server serves its own OpenAPI 3.0 file and a Swagger page",
          "CI on every push to main, with 370 TypeScript test files and 3,377 Rust test functions"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No release since 0.8.4 on 23 July 2026, while a security fix waits on main",
          "One optional API key with no scopes, empty by default",
          "In 0.8.4 a 0.0.0.0 bind ignores Trusted Hosts and reflects any Origin (GHSA-x6p8-7cp8-c3p6)",
          "New Hugging Face downloads go through Menlo's mirror at apps.jan.ai, which neither privacy page mentions",
          "No llms.txt, plain-text error bodies, and the OpenAPI file on the docs site is for the retired Cortex API"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask the owner to start the server (Settings, Local API Server) or run `jan serve`. Nothing listens until then",
          "Call http://127.0.0.1:1337/v1 for the app and localhost:6767/v1 for `jan serve`. The ports differ",
          "Read /openapi.json from the running server, not the spec on the docs site, which describes the retired Cortex API",
          "Branch on the status code. Error bodies are plain text",
          "Keep the bind at 127.0.0.1 on 0.8.4. Trusted Hosts is ignored on 0.0.0.0 until the next release"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 51.4
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        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 46,
          "maintenance": 47,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 68,
          "schema": 56,
          "security": 43,
          "transparency": 66
        },
        "provenanceScore": 72
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "flatpak install flathub ai.jan.Jan   # or the macOS, Windows and Linux installers at https://jan.ai",
        "http": "curl http://127.0.0.1:1337/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer secret-key-123\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\": \"YOUR_MODEL_ID\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Tell me a joke.\"}]}'",
        "claudeCode": "jan launch claude --model janhq/Jan-code-4b-gguf",
        "headless": {
          "command": "jan serve janhq/Jan-code-4b-gguf --detach"
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/jan"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Menlo Research Pte Ltd",
        "domain": "jan.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://www.jan.ai/docs/desktop/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://www.jan.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy (last updated 16 January 2025) names Menlo Research Pte Ltd, and the repository's LICENSE names Menlo Research.",
          "We found no terms of use on jan.ai or in the docs source.",
          "jan.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security policy on GitHub takes reports through Discord or a Google form.",
          "RDAP for jan.ai gives a registration date of 2017-12-16.",
          "There's no hosted endpoint. The server answers on the owner's machine, at 127.0.0.1:1337 by default."
        ],
        "score": 72
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "jan",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "janhq/jan",
            "version": "v0.8.4",
            "released": "2026-07-23",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:30:29.232322263Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 44792,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://jan.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:56.564394441Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "jan.ai",
          "registered": "2017-12-16",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/jan.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.9111837Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.jan.ai/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:56.459690049Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "bfe738043ec7"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.jan.ai/docs/desktop/privacy-policy",
            "kind": "privacy",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:58.510215014Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "b042b8460c35"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:30:29.232322263Z"
      }
    },
    "b": {
      "slug": "underdog",
      "name": "Underdog",
      "vendor": "Conway Research",
      "vendorUrl": "https://underdog.ai",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "A personal AI from Conway Research that runs on the owner's Mac with Apple silicon.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/underdog.json",
      "license": "Model weights Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face (Underdog 27B 1.0 and its ternary build, Woof 4B and 2B 1.1, Bark 0.8B 1.0); woof-1.0-4B carries the Apache-2.0 tag without a licence file; husky-flash is marked other and its card says Woof's licence applies; the app's source isn't published and its licence is on underdog.ai, unchecked",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No API, MCP server, CLI or credential for agents from Conway found as of 3 October 2026. The husky-flash card names `husky serve --model ConwayResearch/husky-flash` from an \"Underdog Greyhound repository\" that isn't public, with no port or protocol documented. Conway's 27B cards run the weights through Inco AI's Splash, which listens on `127.0.0.1:8000` with an OpenAI-compatible API and no authentication unless `--api-key` is set. The weights download from Hugging Face without a gate, though the 27B card says to run `hf auth login` first. underdog.ai, whose robots.txt refuses our reader, is unchecked.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free. Underdog's pricing page says \"100% free\", \"Free forever? Yes. It's your computer doing the work\" and \"There is nothing to bill you for\", with no paid tier (text supplied on 3 October 2026, because underdog.ai refuses our reader). The model weights are free Apache-2.0 downloads on Hugging Face with no login or card. The page links a sign-in, and whether the app needs an account is unchecked.",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No payment protocol on conway.tech, husky.underdog.ai, Conway's Hugging Face organisation or its GitHub repositories (3 October 2026); underdog.ai unchecked.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-03"
      },
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.open-weights",
        "speech.stt"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "local",
        "apple-silicon",
        "open-weights",
        "mlx"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-30",
      "graded": true,
      "disclosure": "Underdog competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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. underdog.ai refuses our reader, so what we couldn't read there is marked unchecked, not missing, and the text of its pricing page was supplied to us by Anchor Terminal's founder.",
      "competesWith": "localghost",
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 29.9,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 444,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 12,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 15,
          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 33,
          "schema": 24,
          "security": 14,
          "transparency": 24
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face for Underdog 27B 1.0, Woof 4B and 2B 1.1 and Bark 0.8B 1.0, with no gate. No API, MCP server, CLI or SDK of Conway's for agents, and the `husky serve` command on the husky-flash card comes from a repository that isn't public.",
        "disclosure": "Underdog competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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. underdog.ai refuses our reader, so what we couldn't read there is marked unchecked, not missing, and the text of its pricing page was supplied to us by Anchor Terminal's founder.",
        "strengths": [
          "Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face for Underdog 27B 1.0, Woof 4B and 2B 1.1 and Bark 0.8B 1.0, with no gate",
          "Eight Underdog model repositories published between 4 and 30 September 2026, the latest Underdog 27B 1.0 and a 2-bit ternary build on 30 September",
          "Woof 4B and 2B 1.1 ship release-provenance.json with a byte count and SHA-256 for every file",
          "Husky's speed post names its hardware, macOS and MLX versions and method, and publishes its weaker results too (1.02 to 1.27 times MLX on writing)",
          "The 27B weights run outside the app through Splash's OpenAI-compatible API, per Conway's ternary card"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No API, MCP server, CLI or SDK of Conway's for agents, and the `husky serve` command on the husky-flash card comes from a repository that isn't public",
          "The app's source isn't published, and none of Conway's three public GitHub repositories mentions Underdog",
          "The Woof 4B 1.1, Woof 2B 1.1 and Bark 0.8B 1.0 cards are one or two sentences, with no base model, context length or limits",
          "No security.txt at conway.tech (404), no SECURITY.md, and no disclosure policy, advisories or bug bounty found",
          "Conway's home page says Underdog 27B beats Claude Opus 4.6, and the 27B cards publish speed figures only"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't look for an agent interface to Underdog. We found no API, MCP server, CLI or SDK, and underdog.ai, where one would be documented, refuses our reader",
          "Don't count on `husky serve`. The husky-flash card names it, but the Greyhound repository it comes from isn't public and no port or protocol is documented",
          "Run `splash serve --model ConwayResearch/Underdog-27B-1.0 --default-reasoning-effort medium` with Inco AI's Splash 1.1.0 or later for an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on `127.0.0.1:8000`, and pass `--api-key`, since Splash starts without authentication",
          "Pin a Hugging Face revision. Woof 4B went from 1.0 to 1.1 in eight days with no note of what changed",
          "Check Woof 4B and 2B 1.1 files against the SHA-256 values in release-provenance.json before loading them"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "low",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 29.9
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 15,
          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 33,
          "schema": 24,
          "security": 14,
          "transparency": 23
        },
        "provenanceScore": 24
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.open-weights",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/underdog"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "underdog.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://underdog.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://underdog.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "underdog.ai's robots.txt refuses our reader (again at about 08:15 UTC on 3 October 2026), so its terms, privacy policy, changelog, domain registration and security.txt are unchecked, not missing.",
          "Terms (https://underdog.ai/terms) and a privacy policy (https://underdog.ai/privacy) are linked from Underdog's pricing page, whose text was supplied to us on 3 October 2026. Their content is unchecked, because our reader is refused.",
          "husky.underdog.ai, a separate host linked from conway.tech and the founder's page, loaded for our reader.",
          "conway.tech's home page links no terms or privacy policy, and conway.tech has no security.txt (404) and no llms.txt (404).",
          "No registered company name found. a16z says Conway Research, conway.tech says Conway, and the licence in Conway's automaton repository reads 'Copyright (c) 2026 Conway'.",
          "No status page applies, since Underdog runs on the owner's machine with no hosted endpoint, and no changelog was found outside underdog.ai."
        ],
        "score": 24
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "underdog",
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://underdog.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2027-09-17T00:00:00.000Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:52.165307988Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "underdog.ai",
          "registered": "2020-03-30",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/underdog.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:26.708018286Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://underdog.ai/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:37.759260125Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e17b8e9e48b7"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://underdog.ai/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:39.984360622Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6c84bce579c3"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:39.984360622Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Jan has a score of 51.4 (D) against Underdog's 29.9 (F). Both do inference open weights. The largest gap is transparency \u0026 trust, 45 points."
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    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-underdog",
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  "markdown": "Jan has a score of 51.4 (D) against Underdog's 29.9 (F). Both do inference open weights. The largest gap is transparency \u0026 trust, 45 points.\n\n- Jan: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #349 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jan.json\n- Underdog: grade F, 29.9/100, rank #444 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/underdog.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Jan for reliability (+35), schema \u0026 documentation (+32), agent ergonomics (+31), security \u0026 auth (+29), transparency \u0026 trust (+45).\n\nPick Underdog for maintenance \u0026 community (+9).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Jan | Underdog | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 33 | Jan +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 24 | Jan +32 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 15 | Jan +31 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 14 | Jan +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 56 | Underdog +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 24 | Jan +45 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **29.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Jan | Underdog |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Menlo Research | Conway Research |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Model weights Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face (Underdog 27B 1.0 and its ternary build, Woof 4B and 2B 1.1, Bark 0.8B 1.0); woof-1.0-4B carries the Apache-2.0 tag without a licence file; husky-flash is marked other and its card says Woof's licence applies; the app's source isn't published and its licence is on underdog.ai, unchecked |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-07-23 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 45k stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Jan.** Apache-2.0, with installers for macOS, Windows and Linux plus Flathub and the Microsoft Store. No release since 0.8.4 on 23 July 2026, while a security fix waits on main.\n\n**Underdog.** Apache-2.0 weights on Hugging Face for Underdog 27B 1.0, Woof 4B and 2B 1.1 and Bark 0.8B 1.0, with no gate. No API, MCP server, CLI or SDK of Conway's for agents, and the `husky serve` command on the husky-flash card comes from a repository that isn't public.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Jan\n\n1. Ask the owner to start the server (Settings, Local API Server) or run `jan serve`. Nothing listens until then\n2. Call http://127.0.0.1:1337/v1 for the app and localhost:6767/v1 for `jan serve`. The ports differ\n3. Read /openapi.json from the running server, not the spec on the docs site, which describes the retired Cortex API\n4. Branch on the status code. Error bodies are plain text\n5. Keep the bind at 127.0.0.1 on 0.8.4. Trusted Hosts is ignored on 0.0.0.0 until the next release\n\n### Underdog\n\n1. Don't look for an agent interface to Underdog. We found no API, MCP server, CLI or SDK, and underdog.ai, where one would be documented, refuses our reader\n2. Don't count on `husky serve`. The husky-flash card names it, but the Greyhound repository it comes from isn't public and no port or protocol is documented\n3. Run `splash serve --model ConwayResearch/Underdog-27B-1.0 --default-reasoning-effort medium` with Inco AI's Splash 1.1.0 or later for an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on `127.0.0.1:8000`, and pass `--api-key`, since Splash starts without authentication\n4. Pin a Hugging Face revision. Woof 4B went from 1.0 to 1.1 in eight days with no note of what changed\n5. Check Woof 4B and 2B 1.1 files against the SHA-256 values in release-provenance.json before loading them\n\n## Other comparisons with Jan or Underdog\n\n- [screenpipe vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/screenpipe-vs-underdog.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-jan.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-jan.md)\n- [Jan vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Jan vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [Jan vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [Jan vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-localai.md)\n- [Jan vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-ollama.md)\n- [Jan vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [Jan vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-underdog.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-underdog.md)\n- [llama.cpp vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-cpp-vs-underdog.md)\n- [LM Studio vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-underdog.md)\n- [LocalAI vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localai-vs-underdog.md)\n- [Ollama vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ollama-vs-underdog.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Underdog competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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. underdog.ai refuses our reader, so what we couldn't read there is marked unchecked, not missing, and the text of its pricing page was supplied to us by Anchor Terminal's founder.\n",
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