Pick khoj if
people who will run an AGPL second-brain locally or on their own box.
Read the khoj pagekhoj vs Ollama
Our take
Pick khoj if people who will run an AGPL second-brain locally or on their own box. Pick Ollama if developers and privacy-sensitive teams who have RAM/VRAM and want Llama/Gemma/DeepSeek without a per-seat chat plan. Skip khoj if people who want a MIT RAG workspace with a Cloud $50 card (AnythingLLM) or only a local model runner (Ollama). Skip Ollama if someone who wants a polished hosted chat with browsing and image
Best for
khoj Chat over your docs and the web with custom agents
Ollama Keeping weights and prompts on hardware you control
Free plan
khoj $0 · software (AGPL-3.0). You bring the model and the machine
Ollama $0 · no license fee. You pay electricity, disk, and GPU. The desktop app and CLI are free to download
Lowest paid
khoj Not published by the vendor
Ollama
Coding agent
khoj Home composer
Ollama Claude Code
Runs where
khoj Local or hosted
Ollama Local or hosted
Watch out
khoj AGPL is not MIT
Ollama Hardware is the bill
Last checked
khoj 2026-10-19 · khoj.dev
Ollama 2026-10-19 · ollama.com
Which one, then?
Pick Ollama if
developers and privacy-sensitive teams who have RAM/VRAM and want Llama/Gemma/DeepSeek without a per-seat chat plan.
Read the Ollama page