# Khoj vs LocalGhost > LocalGhost has a score of 45.8 (E) against Khoj's 38.8 (E). Both do memory search. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 52 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.md (~1,850 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.min.md (~330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localghost.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-04 LocalGhost has a score of 45.8 (E) against Khoj's 38.8 (E). Both do memory search. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 52 points. - 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 - LocalGhost: grade E, 45.8/100, rank #396 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localghost.json ## Which one, for what Pick Khoj for reliability (+6), agent ergonomics (+44). Pick LocalGhost for schema & documentation (+10), security & auth (+23), maintenance & community (+52), transparency & trust (+13). ## Score by category | Category | Weight | Khoj | LocalGhost | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 59 | Khoj +6 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 34 | 44 | LocalGhost +10 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 2 | Khoj +44 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 29 | 52 | LocalGhost +23 | | 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) | 19 | 71 | LocalGhost +52 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 77 | LocalGhost +13 | | Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **38.8 · E** | **45.8 · E** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Khoj | LocalGhost | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Model platform | Model platform | | Vendor | Khoj Inc. | LocalGhost | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | HTTP | HTTP | | Auth | OAuth or key | Token | | Pricing | Free | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | MIT | | 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 | yes | | MCP registry | not listed | not listed | | Last release | 2026-03-26 | none | | Popularity | 38k stars | 16 stars | | Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | none | ## Verdicts **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. **LocalGhost.** The server and Android app are MIT-licensed, with no telemetry libraries found. There is no agent API, MCP server or SDK; unpaired callers receive HTTP 503. ## Before you call either ### 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 ### LocalGhost 1. Don't call a LocalGhost box. Every request without the paired phone's certificate gets a 503 that looks like an outage 2. Reach a person's LocalGhost archive through the person and their phone. Nothing in wisp 0.0.3 opens it to an agent 3. Read a 503 from a box as no certificate, a retired phone, a locked box or a down daemon. The response never says which 4. Don't treat the README's list of what leaves the phone as complete. The app also calls Frankfurter, Wikipedia's summary API and Android's geocoder 5. Run `ghost-cli ghost. commands` first if an operator hands you a root shell on an unlocked box. It lists command names only, takes key=value arguments and prints JSON ## Other comparisons with Khoj or LocalGhost - [AnythingLLM vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-khoj.md) - [GPT4All vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-khoj.md) - [Jan vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-khoj.md) - [Khoj vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-llama-cpp.md) - [Khoj vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-lm-studio.md) - [Khoj vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localai.md) - [Khoj vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-ollama.md) - [Khoj vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-open-webui.md) - [Cognee vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cognee-vs-localghost.md) - [Graphiti vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/graphiti-vs-localghost.md) - [Hindsight vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hindsight-vs-localghost.md) - [Honcho vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honcho-vs-localghost.md) - [LocalGhost vs Mem0 Platform + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-mem0.md) - [LocalGhost vs Supermemory API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-supermemory.md) - [LocalGhost vs Zep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-zep.md) - [AnythingLLM vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localghost.md) - [GPT4All vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localghost.md) - [Khoj vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-screenpipe.md) - [LocalGhost vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localghost-vs-screenpipe.md) ## 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. - LocalGhost is built by Anchor Terminal's founder. Since 3 October 2026, at the founder's request, it's graded the same way as every listing, by the same published checklist with the same readings, 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. The review panel doesn't review it, and letme never picks it.