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AnythingLLM

A private AI assistant that runs entirely on your computer, with no accounts, API keys or

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AnythingLLM is an open-source, MIT-licensed AI application that runs locally on your own device, handling document knowledge (RAG), web scraping and search, background jobs, custom agent skills, and a meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls without sending data to the cloud. It is available as a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, an Android app, and a Docker deployment, with no account or API key required for local use.

Core capabilities include Document Knowledge, Web Scraping & Search, Dynamic Model Selection, Background Jobs, Custom Agent Skills, a Meeting Assistant with local transcription and summaries, and Magic Features for dictation, text highlighting and contextual autocomplete. The mobile app adds web search, document chat, file generation, scheduled jobs and memory, and can pair with the desktop for larger models and full workspaces. A custom tool builder and developer API support extension.

The desktop app is free to download, and a self-hosted Docker deployment is available at no cost for small teams. Hosted cloud plans are offered in Basic, Pro and Enterprise editions, with the higher tiers adding priority resources, a support SLA, on-premise deployment, custom integrations, SSO and RBAC; Enterprise is quoted individually. Cloud plans are subscription-based and require you to supply an LLM API key.

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