It is recommended to chat with open-source models by running an open-source server like Ollama, Llama.cpp on your GPU powered machine or use a commercial provider of open-source models like DeepInfra or OpenRouter. These chat model serving options provide a mature Openai compatible API that already works with Khoj. Directly using offline chat models only worked reasonably with pip install on a machine with GPU. Docker setup of khoj had trouble with accessing GPU. And without GPU access offline chat is too slow. Deprecating support for an offline chat provider directly from within Khoj will reduce code complexity and increase developement velocity. Offline models are subsumed to use existing Openai ai model provider.
🎁 New
- Start any message with
/researchto try out the experimental research mode with Khoj. - Anyone can now create custom agents with tunable personality, tools and knowledge bases.
- Read about Khoj's excellent performance on modern retrieval and reasoning benchmarks.
Overview
Khoj is a personal AI app to extend your capabilities. It smoothly scales up from an on-device personal AI to a cloud-scale enterprise AI.
- Chat with any local or online LLM (e.g llama3, qwen, gemma, mistral, gpt, claude, gemini, deepseek).
- Get answers from the internet and your docs (including image, pdf, markdown, org-mode, word, notion files).
- Access it from your Browser, Obsidian, Emacs, Desktop, Phone or Whatsapp.
- Create agents with custom knowledge, persona, chat model and tools to take on any role.
- Automate away repetitive research. Get personal newsletters and smart notifications delivered to your inbox.
- Find relevant docs quickly and easily using our advanced semantic search.
- Generate images, talk out loud, play your messages.
- Khoj is open-source, self-hostable. Always.
- Run it privately on your computer or try it on our cloud app.
See it in action
Go to https://app.khoj.dev to see Khoj live.
Full feature list
You can see the full feature list here.
Self-Host
To get started with self-hosting Khoj, read the docs.
Enterprise
Khoj is available as a cloud service, on-premises, or as a hybrid solution. To learn more about Khoj Enterprise, visit our website.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: Can I use Khoj without self-hosting?
Yes! You can use Khoj right away at https://app.khoj.dev — no setup required.
Q: What kinds of documents can Khoj read?
Khoj supports a wide variety: PDFs, Markdown, Notion, Word docs, org-mode files, and more.
Q: How can I make my own agent?
Check out this blog post for a step-by-step guide to custom agents. For more questions, head over to our Discord!
Contributors
Cheers to our awesome contributors! 🎉
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Interested in Contributing?
Khoj is open source. It is sustained by the community and we’d love for you to join it! Whether you’re a coder, designer, writer, or enthusiast, there’s a place for you.
Why Contribute?
- Make an Impact: Help build, test and improve a tool used by thousands to boost productivity.
- Learn & Grow: Work on cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and semantic search technologies.
You can help us build new features, improve the project documentation, report issues and fix bugs. If you're a developer, please see our Contributing Guidelines and check out good first issues to work on.

