Khoj
★ 35.7kA self-hosted alternative to Chatgpt, Notion, Evernote
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid5 Containers — 5 containers — moderate hosting footprintSourceNeeds Pgvector15+ active committers (12mo)
About
Khoj is a personal AI application designed to extend a user’s capabilities as a "second brain." It combines conversational AI, document retrieval, semantic search, and agent creation so people can...
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Features
- Chat with local or online LLMs
- Search personal documents and the internet
- Use across browser, Obsidian, Emacs, desktop, phone, and WhatsApp
- Create custom agents
- Automate research and notifications
- Semantic search
- Image generation
- Voice interaction
Details
- Last Updated
- Jul 12, 2026
- Created
- Aug 16, 2021
- Install Methods
- source
- Runtime / Stack
- PythonDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: OptionalOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓5 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 5 containers
Docker Compose
5 services · database: pgvector · infra: pgvector · 1 unclassified (searxng)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (6 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ 1e30154 · scanned Jun 7, 2026
services:
database:
image: docker.io/pgvector/pgvector:pg15
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
POSTGRES_DB: postgres
volumes:
- khoj_db:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U postgres"]
interval: 30s
timeout: 10s
retries: 5
sandbox:
image: ghcr.io/khoj-ai/terrarium:latest
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -f http://localhost:8080/health"]
interval: 30s
timeout: 10s
# ...
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