{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "khoj", "name": "Khoj", "vendor": "Khoj Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://khoj.dev", "kind": "platform", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Open-source personal AI application with a Python server and a web interface.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/khoj.json", "repo": "https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj", "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "khoj" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/khoj-ai/khoj" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The Docker Compose file and the pip quick start both run Khoj with `--anonymous-mode`, which serves every request as a default user with no sign-in and doesn't mount the /auth routes, so no API key can be created in that mode. The Compose file starts the server on 0.0.0.0, publishes port 42110 on every host interface, and sets `KHOJ_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password` and `KHOJ_DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=secret` as examples (https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/blob/master/docker-compose.yml). Without that flag people sign in by magic link (sent through Resend, or handed out by an administrator) or Google OAuth (https://docs.khoj.dev/advanced/authentication). API clients send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` with a `kk-` key created on the web app's settings page. Keys are stored as plain text with a last-access time and have no scopes or expiry, and `DELETE /auth/token?token=\u003ckey\u003e` revokes one (https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/blob/master/src/khoj/configure.py; https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/blob/master/src/khoj/routers/auth.py). Model, search and scraper keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Serper, Exa, Firecrawl, E2B) go in environment variables or the admin panel.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and AGPL-3.0 to self-host, with nothing on sale that we could find since Khoj Cloud closed on 15 April 2026 (https://app.khoj.dev). The README still links Khoj Enterprise at khoj.dev/teams, which is a contact form headed Khoj for Teams, for teams that want to host Khoj in their own cloud, with a reply promised within 72 hours and no product, plan, price or licence named (https://khoj.dev/teams). You pay your model provider and any search, scraping or sandbox API you configure, or nothing with a local model and the bundled SearXNG (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": 37500, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.khoj.dev", "capabilities": [ "memory.search", "memory.user", "inference.local", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python", "docker", "beta", "telemetry-default-on" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-26", "graded": true, "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 38.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 813, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 46, "maintenance": 19, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 34, "security": 29, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-03" }, "negative": -7, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-07-13. Default-on telemetry sent the caller's IP (`client_host`) to khoj.beta.haletic.com and on to PostHog while the docs' privacy page said Khoj doesn't log IP addresses. Reported in #1374 and removed on master on 2 August 2026, but 1.42.10 and 2.0.0-beta.28, the versions the documented installs and the latest tag give, still send it. Request metadata rather than content, so the minimum, -2. https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/4d7ac85a3f99b05f2d17f311679cff046d70d614", "2026-04-15. Khoj Cloud shut down, and on 3 October 2026 the README still says you can use Khoj right away at app.khoj.dev with no setup, the docs site still links to app.khoj.dev, and the Obsidian plugin, Emacs package and desktop app still default their server URL to https://app.khoj.dev. An endpoint removed while still advertised. The shutdown had three weeks' notice in the app, so the minimum, -3. https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/blob/master/README.md; https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/blob/master/src/interface/obsidian/src/settings.ts", "2026-02-01. CVE-2025-69207 (GHSA-6whj-7qmg-86qj, 5.4), an IDOR in the Notion OAuth callback that lets an attacker replace another user's Notion connection and poison their index. The check was hardened on 28 December 2025 and ships in 2.0.0-beta.23 and later, but the advisory lists no patched version, and 1.42.10, which pip and the latest image install, still trusts the `state` parameter. It needs a Notion OAuth app and more than one user, -1. https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-6whj-7qmg-86qj", "2026-06-24. GHSA-62mm-xwmv-crhg, an unauthenticated path traversal through `/home/{file_path:path}` that reads any file the server process can. The route arrived in 2.0.0-beta.23 (29 December 2025) and was guarded in 2.0.0-beta.25 (22 February 2026), so two pre-releases were exposed and 1.42.10 never had the route. Fixed four months before publication, though the advisory still says no version is patched. Fixed and decayed, -1. https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-62mm-xwmv-crhg; https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/21c51b9a" ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "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.", "strengths": [ "AGPL-3.0-or-later, with the server, web app and Obsidian, Emacs and desktop clients in one public repository", "Chats through Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible server, or OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models, and runs its embedding model in the server", "Indexes PDF, Markdown, org-mode, Word, Notion and GitHub content, with file, date and word filters inside the query", "Test CI on Python 3.10 to 3.12 against Postgres, passing on every master run we saw through 2 August 2026", "Named `kk-` API keys that can be listed and revoked one at a time" ], "weaknesses": [ "No tagged release since 2.0.0-beta.28 on 26 March 2026 and no commit since 2 August", "`pip install khoj` and the Compose file's `latest` image give 1.42.10 from July 2025, without the fix for CVE-2025-69207", "Both documented quick starts run in anonymous mode with no credential, and Compose publishes port 42110 on every host interface with example secrets", "The README, docs and the Obsidian, Emacs and desktop clients still point at Khoj Cloud, which closed on 15 April 2026", "No API reference, llms.txt or published OpenAPI file" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Point the Obsidian, Emacs or desktop client at your own server. They default to app.khoj.dev, which shut down on 15 April 2026", "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", "Call `GET /api/search?q=...\u0026n=5` for passages and put `file:\"notes.md\"` or `dt\u003e=\"2026-01-01\"` inside `q` to filter. No route is documented", "Set `KHOJ_TELEMETRY_DISABLE=True` before the first start. Tagged releases send the caller's IP with telemetry" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 38.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 46, "maintenance": 19, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 34, "security": 29, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 60 }, "connect": { "install": "python -m pip install 'khoj[local]' # then: USE_EMBEDDED_DB=\"true\" khoj --anonymous-mode # or: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khoj-ai/khoj/master/docker-compose.yml \u0026\u0026 docker-compose up" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/memory.search", "tool": "https://letme.dev/khoj" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Khoj Inc.", "domain": "khoj.dev", "domainRegistered": "2023-05-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://khoj.dev/terms-of-service.html", "privacy": "https://khoj.dev/privacy-policy.html", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-03", "notes": [ "The privacy policy names Khoj Inc. as the operator of khoj.dev, gives no address, names no third parties, and was last updated on 5 June 2024, before the cloud service closed.", "khoj.dev/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 per the listing's check. The repository has no SECURITY.md and GitHub says the project has not set one up. Private vulnerability reporting is on, with six advisories published.", "RDAP for khoj.dev gives a registration date of 2023-05-20, registrar Cloudflare.", "There's no hosted endpoint since Khoj Cloud closed on 15 April 2026. A self-hosted server answers on its owner's own host." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.json", "live": { "slug": "khoj", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "khoj-ai/khoj", "version": "2.0.0-beta.28", "released": "2026-03-26", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:17:45.75696265Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "khoj", "version": "1.42.10", "released": "2025-07-15", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:17:45.552649753Z" } ], "githubStars": 37602, "pypiWeekly": 595, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://khoj.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:54.020770215Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "khoj.dev", "registered": "2023-05-20", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/khoj.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:42.860690409Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://khoj.dev/privacy-policy.html", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:04.451179052Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c03103b79f52" }, { "url": "https://khoj.dev/terms-of-service.html", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:06.567445262Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e08893bf1c28" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:06.567445262Z" } }, "answer": "KoboldCpp scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Khoj leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "koboldcpp", "name": "KoboldCpp", "vendor": "LostRuins (Concedo)", "vendorUrl": "https://koboldcpp.net", "kind": "http-api", "category": "local-ai", "summary": "Open-source program for running GGUF models on the owner's own computer, built on llama.cpp. One executable serves a web interface and KoboldAI, OpenAI, Ollama and Anthropic compatible APIs on port 5001.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/koboldcpp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp", "license": "AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "koboldai/koboldcpp" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No credential by default. `--password` (or the `KCPP_PASSWORD` environment variable) sets one shared key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer`, and the server reads it from the header only. The key guards text routes. Image generation, upscaling, `/sdapi/v1/interrogate` and `/tts_to_audio` skip the check, and the `--help` text says image endpoints are not secured. Admin routes need `--admin`, an `--admindir` and, when set, a separate `--adminpassword`. Keys have no scopes and change only with a restart. With no `--host` the server listens on all routable interfaces, and CORS reflects any Origin with credentials allowed (https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/blob/concedo/koboldcpp.py).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under AGPL-3.0, with no account, key or card. Nothing is sold by the project. The owner pays for hardware and electricity, and the README links third-party GPU rental (RunPod, SimplePod) and Google Colab as other places to run it.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the wiki, the API document or `koboldcpp.py` (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 11972, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/wiki", "llmsTxt": "https://koboldcpp.net/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://lite.koboldai.net/koboldcpp_api.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.local", "inference.open-weights", "agent.mcp-client", "embed.text", "image.generate", "speech.stt", "speech.tts", "audio.music" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "docker", "agpl", "no-telemetry" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-27", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 462, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 68, "schema": 68, "security": 38, "transparency": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One file runs text, image, speech and music models behind a published OpenAPI 3.0.3 document, with eight releases in 90 days. The server listens on every interface with no password by default, and `--password` leaves the image routes open.", "bestFor": "An owner who wants text, image, speech and music models behind one executable with a writing and roleplay interface, and clients that speak the KoboldAI, OpenAI, Ollama or Anthropic formats.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.3 document with 54 operations, served by the program at `/api?json=1` and published at lite.koboldai.net", "KoboldAI, OpenAI, Ollama, Anthropic, AUTOMATIC1111 and ComfyUI style routes from one server on port 5001", "Eight releases between 10 July and 27 September 2026, each with written notes, and replies on all 24 of the newest open issues", "AGPL-3.0, with no telemetry or update check found in `koboldcpp.py` and a wiki statement that inputs are sent nowhere", "Admin functions are off by default and take their own `--adminpassword`" ], "weaknesses": [ "With no `--host` the server accepts connections on all routable interfaces, and no password is set by default", "`--password` covers text routes only. The `--help` text says image endpoints are not secured", "CORS reflects any Origin with credentials allowed and permits private-network requests", "No `SECURITY.md` or security.txt, and the one advisory (GHSA-qhvp-gj7g-rw26) still lists no patched version", "No continuous test run on pushes. Build workflows are started by hand and the only automatic test covers `AutoGuess.json`" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start with `--host 127.0.0.1` and `--password`. The default listens on every interface with no key", "Send the password as `Authorization: Bearer \u003cpassword\u003e`. It is not read from the query string", "Treat 503 as both busy and rate limited. The server never sends 429 or `Retry-After`, and the wait in seconds is in `detail.msg`", "Pass `max_length` or `max_tokens`. The default is 2,048 tokens unless `--defaultgenamt` changes it", "Send a `genkey` with each generation so `/api/extra/generate/check` and `/api/extra/abort` act on your request and not another caller's" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 68, "schema": 68, "security": 38, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 27 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fLo koboldcpp-linux-x64 https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest/download/koboldcpp-linux-x64 \u0026\u0026 chmod +x koboldcpp-linux-x64 \u0026\u0026 ./koboldcpp-linux-x64\n./koboldcpp-linux-x64 --model /path/to/model.gguf # listens on port 5001", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url http://localhost:5001/api/v1/generate \\\n --header \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n --data '{\"prompt\": \"Niko the kobold stalked carefully down the alley,\", \"max_context_length\": 2048, \"max_length\": 100}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local", "tool": "https://letme.dev/koboldcpp" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "koboldcpp.net", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named in the repository, the wiki or koboldcpp.net. The maintainer publishes as LostRuins on GitHub and Concedo on Discord, and the Windows binary's version resource gives KoboldAI as the company name.", "The project publishes no terms of service and no privacy policy, so both fields are empty. The licence is AGPL-3.0 and the only privacy statement is an FAQ entry in the wiki.", "The README calls koboldcpp.net the official community website. RDAP gives its registration date as 2026-03-18 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar. The README warns that koboldcpp.com is a fake site.", "koboldcpp.net/.well-known/security.txt and koboldai.org/.well-known/security.txt return 404. koboldcpp.net/llms.txt returns a short index that links llms-small.txt and llms-full.txt.", "There's no shared hosted endpoint. The server runs on the owner's machine. The online API reference is on lite.koboldai.net." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model platform", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Khoj Inc.", "b": "LostRuins (Concedo)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "AGPL-3.0-or-later", "b": "AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-03-26", "b": "2026-09-27", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2024-06-05", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "38k stars", "b": "12k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "KoboldCpp scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Khoj leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Khoj or KoboldCpp?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Khoj. No hosted endpoint is listed for KoboldCpp.", "question": "Can an agent call Khoj and KoboldCpp without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Khoj is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). KoboldCpp is open source (AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT).", "question": "Are Khoj and KoboldCpp open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 49" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "khoj", "watchFor": "No tagged release since 2.0.0-beta.28 on 26 March 2026 and no commit since 2 August" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 68 against 34", "Agent ergonomics, 63 against 46", "Security \u0026 auth, 38 against 29", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 19" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where Khoj loses 7 points for them" ], "goodFor": "An owner who wants text, image, speech and music models behind one executable with a writing and roleplay interface, and clients that speak the KoboldAI, OpenAI, Ollama or Anthropic formats.", "slug": "koboldcpp", "watchFor": "With no `--host` the server accepts connections on all routable interfaces, and no password is set by default" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.local", "name": "Local inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-khoj.json", "title": "AnythingLLM vs Khoj", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-khoj" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-koboldcpp.json", "title": "AnythingLLM vs KoboldCpp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-koboldcpp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docker-model-runner-vs-khoj.json", "title": "Docker Model Runner vs Khoj", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docker-model-runner-vs-khoj" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docker-model-runner-vs-koboldcpp.json", "title": "Docker Model Runner vs KoboldCpp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docker-model-runner-vs-koboldcpp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foundry-local-vs-khoj.json", "title": "Foundry Local vs Khoj", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foundry-local-vs-khoj" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foundry-local-vs-koboldcpp.json", "title": "Foundry Local vs KoboldCpp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foundry-local-vs-koboldcpp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-khoj.json", "title": "Core vs Khoj", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-khoj" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-koboldcpp.json", "title": "Core vs KoboldCpp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-koboldcpp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-khoj.json", "title": "GPT4All vs Khoj", "url": 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/koboldcpp.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Khoj (E)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 49\n\nWatch for: No tagged release since 2.0.0-beta.28 on 26 March 2026 and no commit since 2 August\n\n### KoboldCpp (C)\n\nGood for: An owner who wants text, image, speech and music models behind one executable with a writing and roleplay interface, and clients that speak the KoboldAI, OpenAI, Ollama or Anthropic formats.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 68 against 34\n- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 46\n- Security \u0026 auth, 38 against 29\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 19\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Khoj loses 7 points for them\n\nWatch for: With no `--host` the server accepts connections on all routable interfaces, and no password is set by default\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Khoj | KoboldCpp | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 68 | KoboldCpp +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 34 | 68 | KoboldCpp +34 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 63 | KoboldCpp +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 29 | 38 | KoboldCpp +9 |\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) | 19 | 82 | KoboldCpp +63 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 49 | Khoj +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **38.5 · E** | **60.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Khoj | KoboldCpp |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Khoj Inc. | LostRuins (Concedo) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-03-26 | 2026-09-27 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-06-05 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 38k stars | 12k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**KoboldCpp.** One file runs text, image, speech and music models behind a published OpenAPI 3.0.3 document, with eight releases in 90 days. The server listens on every interface with no password by default, and `--password` leaves the image routes open.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Khoj\n\n1. 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\n2. Point the Obsidian, Emacs or desktop client at your own server. They default to app.khoj.dev, which shut down on 15 April 2026\n3. 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\n4. Call `GET /api/search?q=...\u0026n=5` for passages and put `file:\"notes.md\"` or `dt\u003e=\"2026-01-01\"` inside `q` to filter. No route is documented\n5. Set `KHOJ_TELEMETRY_DISABLE=True` before the first start. Tagged releases send the caller's IP with telemetry\n\n### KoboldCpp\n\n1. Start with `--host 127.0.0.1` and `--password`. The default listens on every interface with no key\n2. Send the password as `Authorization: Bearer \u003cpassword\u003e`. It is not read from the query string\n3. Treat 503 as both busy and rate limited. The server never sends 429 or `Retry-After`, and the wait in seconds is in `detail.msg`\n4. Pass `max_length` or `max_tokens`. The default is 2,048 tokens unless `--defaultgenamt` changes it\n5. Send a `genkey` with each generation so `/api/extra/generate/check` and `/api/extra/abort` act on your request and not another caller's\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Khoj or KoboldCpp?\n\nKoboldCpp scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Khoj leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call Khoj and KoboldCpp without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Khoj. No hosted endpoint is listed for KoboldCpp.\n\n### Are Khoj and KoboldCpp open source?\n\nYes. Khoj is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). KoboldCpp is open source (AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-koboldcpp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-koboldcpp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"khoj\", \"b\": \"koboldcpp\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare khoj koboldcpp`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/khoj.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/koboldcpp.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Khoj or KoboldCpp\n\n- [AnythingLLM vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-khoj.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs KoboldCpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-koboldcpp.md)\n- [Docker Model Runner vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docker-model-runner-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Docker Model Runner vs KoboldCpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docker-model-runner-vs-koboldcpp.md)\n- [Foundry Local vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foundry-local-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Foundry Local vs KoboldCpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/foundry-local-vs-koboldcpp.md)\n- [Core vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Core vs KoboldCpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-core-vs-koboldcpp.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-khoj.md)\n- [GPT4All vs KoboldCpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-koboldcpp.md)\n- [Jan vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Jan vs KoboldCpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-koboldcpp.md)\n- [Khoj vs Lemonade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-lemonade.md)\n- [Khoj vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [Khoj vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [Khoj vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localai.md)\n- [Khoj vs MLX LM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-mlx-lm.md)\n- [Khoj vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-ollama.md)\n- [Khoj vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [Khoj vs TextGen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-text-generation-webui.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs Lemonade](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-lemonade.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-localai.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs MLX LM](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-mlx-lm.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-ollama.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs TextGen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-text-generation-webui.md)\n- [KoboldCpp vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koboldcpp-vs-underdog.md)\n- [Khoj vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.md)\n- [Khoj vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-screenpipe.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Khoj competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds, and LocalGhost's own about page names it as a competitor. 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