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ResearchKhoj AI

Khoj

AI second brain that chats with your docs and the web, local or hosted.

Categories
ResearchAssistant
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebiOSAndroidmacOSWindowsLinux
Models
Multi-model
Verified
Jun 6, 2026

An open-source "AI second brain" for chatting with local or online models, searching across your personal documents and the internet, building custom agents, and automating research. Self-host it on your own machine, or use plugins for Obsidian, Emacs, desktop, and mobile. Licensed AGPL-3.0; a paid managed cloud tier also exists, so it's freemium.

Capabilities 4

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Trigger-action automation (secondary capability)
  • Multi-model access (secondary capability)
  • Chat with documents (primary capability)
  • Web research agent (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • AGPL-3.0 licensed, self-hostable
  • Searches local docs plus the web
  • Custom agents and scheduled automations
  • Self-hosting takes setup effort
  • AGPL license can deter commercial use
  • Smaller team than big assistants
  • Cloud tier needed for zero-setup use

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