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It automatically indexes your Obsidian notes, PDF documents and text files, letting you ask natural language questions and trigger autonomous agents that can search the web. Access it from the web interface, Chrome and Firefox browser extensions, or the Obsidian plugin.",[25,26,27,28,29,30],"Semantic search on your notes, PDFs and documents — no cloud involved","Autonomous agents that browse the web and aggregate sources","Native Obsidian integration, Chrome and Firefox extensions, web interface","Works with local LLMs via Ollama or OpenAI \u002F Anthropic APIs","PostgreSQL + pgvector backend: fast indexing and vector search","Multimodal: ask questions about images embedded in your notes",[32,35,38],{"title":33,"body":34},"Technical knowledge base","Query your Obsidian vault of technical documentation without leaving your IDE. Khoj finds architecture decisions, useful commands and meeting notes by meaning, not by keyword.",{"title":36,"body":37},"Legal or HR document research","Load your contracts, internal procedures and regulatory texts. Ask precise questions about your data without exposing any document to a third-party service.",{"title":39,"body":40},"News monitoring and synthesis","Khoj agents can query the web, aggregate multiple sources and deliver a structured summary directly from the interface or browser extension.",[42,45,48,51,54],{"title":43,"body":44},"Order a ServOrbit VPS","Plan for at least 4 GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs. Khoj loads embedding models at startup: an undersized server causes significant indexing delays.",{"title":46,"body":47},"Point your domain to the VPS","Khoj requires a FQDN for its authentication URLs and task callbacks. Add an A record at your registrar before deploying.",{"title":49,"body":50},"Deploy Khoj from the ServOrbit catalog","Choose the Khoj app in the AI category. ServOrbit generates a random admin password, installs the Docker Compose stack (PostgreSQL + pgvector + Khoj server) and configures nginx with your domain.",{"title":52,"body":53},"Log in and configure a LLM","Access the web interface with email admin@khoj.local and the password shown in your client area. Go to Settings → LLM to connect Ollama (local) or your OpenAI key.",{"title":55,"body":56},"Connect the Obsidian plugin","Install the official Khoj plugin from the Obsidian library (Settings → Community plugins → Khoj), enter your instance URL and API key. Vault indexing starts immediately.",[58,61,64,67,70],{"q":59,"a":60},"Do I need a GPU to run Khoj?","No. Khoj runs on CPU only: it delegates LLM inference to your configured LLM (local Ollama, OpenAI API, etc.) and does not embed any generation model internally. The only local load is document embedding, which remains modest.",{"q":62,"a":63},"Can Khoj use a 100% local LLM without external API calls?","Yes. Install Ollama on the same VPS or a machine on your network, then configure Khoj to point to your Ollama endpoint. No data leaves your infrastructure.",{"q":65,"a":66},"How does first access work?","ServOrbit creates an initial admin account with email admin@khoj.local and a random password visible in your client area. Log in to configure your LLM, then create your own user account if you need multiple users.",{"q":68,"a":69},"What file types can Khoj index?","Khoj indexes Markdown\u002FObsidian notes, PDFs, plain text files, web pages and emails (IMAP). It also extracts content from images embedded in your documents if you have configured a vision model.",{"q":71,"a":72},"What is the difference from AnythingLLM or PrivateGPT?","AnythingLLM and PrivateGPT focus on pure RAG (question → document). Khoj goes further with autonomous agents: they can browse the web, chain multiple steps and aggregate external sources in addition to your local knowledge base. Native Obsidian integration is also a key differentiator.",{"ram":74,"cpu":75,"disk":76,"stack":77,"port":82},"4 GB minimum (8 GB recommended)","2 vCPUs minimum","20 GB (depending on indexed document volume)",[78,79,80,81],"Docker Compose","Python","PostgreSQL 15 + pgvector","FastAPI",42110,[],[85,93,99],{"name":86,"slug":87,"categorySlug":13,"categoryName":88,"categoryColor":89,"logo":90,"tagline":91,"description":92},"AnythingLLM","anything-llm","Artificial Intelligence","text-purple-400 bg-purple-500\u002F10","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.jsdelivr.net\u002Fgh\u002Fselfhst\u002Ficons\u002Fsvg\u002Fanythingllm.svg","Private AI workspace with RAG and agents — your documents, your models, your server.","Open-source AI workspace with built-in RAG, AI agents, and multi-model chat. Connect your own documents, use any LLM — hosted privately on your VPS.",{"name":94,"slug":95,"categorySlug":13,"categoryName":88,"categoryColor":89,"logo":96,"tagline":97,"description":98},"Open WebUI","open-webui","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.jsdelivr.net\u002Fgh\u002Fselfhst\u002Ficons\u002Fsvg\u002Fopen-webui.svg","Web interface for your LLMs — Ollama, OpenAI, Mistral — hosted on your own server.","Web interface to interact with your local or remote LLMs. Your data stays on your infrastructure — no third party involved.",{"name":100,"slug":101,"categorySlug":13,"categoryName":88,"categoryColor":89,"logo":21,"tagline":102,"description":103},"PrivateGPT","private-gpt","100% local AI document assistant — RAG on your files, no cloud, no data leak.","Local document RAG assistant: ask questions of your PDFs, contracts and team notes — LLM and embeddings run on your VPS, zero data leaving the server.",[105],"heberger-khoj-vps",{"key":12,"slug":13,"name":88,"objective":107,"icon":108,"color":89},"Build, host and run AI solutions.","ai",1790693361389]