# Khoj vs KoboldCpp (slim)

> 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 & trust. Both do local inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & trust. Both do local inference.

- Khoj: E 38.5, rank #813 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.min.md
- KoboldCpp: C 60.5, rank #462 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.min.md
- 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. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 60 against 49.
- KoboldCpp, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 68 against 34; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 46; Security & auth, 38 against 29; Maintenance & 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.

| Category | Khoj | KoboldCpp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 34 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 46 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 29 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 19 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Khoj | KoboldCpp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Khoj Inc. | LostRuins (Concedo) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| 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 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-03-26 | 2026-09-27 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-06-05 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| 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 | 38k stars | 12k stars |
| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | none |