Khoj
Open-source AI assistant that learns from your documents and web searches to provide personalized research and automation
- Also known as
- khoj
Available worldwide
What is Khoj?
Khoj is an AI platform available as open-source software or a managed cloud service that processes your personal documents, files, and web information to answer questions and automate tasks. It supports multiple LLMs, document formats, and access methods including web browsers, desktop apps, Obsidian, Emacs, and WhatsApp.
Khoj pricing
We don't have Khoj's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free tier available. Subscription with tiered and usage-based pricing; specific plans not disclosed in provided text.
What Khoj does
The capabilities that matter for ai research agents, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Open source framework
- Recursive multi step iterative searching
- -
- Strict inline citation generation with links
- ✓
- Academic verified journal database querying only
- -
- Unstructured PDF upload and cross document synthesis
- ✓
- Tabular data extraction and literature matrix generation
- -
- Anti hallucination grounding and fact checking layer
- -
- Multi agent expert persona debates internal
- -
- Export to word PDF markdown with bibliography
- -
- Bring your own key byok API support
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- Mit or apache permissive oss license
- ✗
- Pricing model
- Free open source
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (12)
Independently observed- Obsidian
- Emacs
- Notion
- GPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Llama
- Qwen
- Mistral
- Deepseek
- Gemma
Khoj alternatives
Other ai research agents we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ElicitAI-powered platform for searching and synthesizing scientific researchlow · 37%
- TavilyWeb access API for AI agents to retrieve and ground responses in live datamedium · 55%
- GPT-Researcherlow · 35%
- ScholarcyAI-powered summarization and research organization for academic paperslow · 36%
- ConsensusAI-powered search engine that finds and synthesizes insights from millions of peer-reviewed research paperslow · 36%
- ResearchRabbitAI-powered academic research discovery platform that finds and visualizes connections between papers.low · 36%
Compare Khoj
Side by side against other ai research agents, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Khoj, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 0.05 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 32 | 0.04 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: free_open_source · Architecture model: open_source_framework · Bring your own key byok api support: Yes · Mit or apache permissive oss license: No · Strict inline citation generation with links: Yes · Unstructured pdf upload and cross document synthesis: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 12 | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-21 · 75% |