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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Khoj is an open-source personal AI company building an AI second brain for search, chat, agents, and automation over personal documents and the web; as of April 2026 its hosted cloud service was shut down, and the company is now centered on self-hosting plus new projects like Open Paper and Pipali.
Primary product
Open-source personal AI assistant / AI second brain
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Intelligent Virtual Assistants Software
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Jul 2023
Latest amount
$500K
Jul 2023 · Y Combinator
Investors
Public materials describe Khoj as a tiny, hacker-style team that builds in the open, emphasizes transparency and safety, and leans on community contribution and reproducible evaluation.
Pricing
Open-source self-hosting is free; managed cloud used tiered subscription plans before the hosted service was shut down.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
About $330K ARR (estimated, 2025)
Estimated monthly visits
43.6K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Khoj Cloud was officially sunset on April 15, 2026 after the team said the subscription cloud-first model, multiple client interfaces, and custom integrations made scaling utility difficult; the company shifted focus to Open Paper and Pipali.
SourceKhoj · Apr 2026
Khoj shut down its hosted cloud service, citing scaling challenges with a subscription cloud-first model and multiple client interfaces, while keeping the project open-source and redirecting effort to Open Paper and Pipali.
Khoj Blog · Jan 2025
Khoj outlined its AI safety philosophy, emphasizing open-source transparency, community vulnerability discovery, and mitigation of agent risks such as prompt injection and adversarial prompt engineering.
Khoj Blog · Nov 2024
Khoj described an automated evaluation harness using FRAMES and SimpleQA, showing large gains from General to Research mode and publishing reproducible workflows and reports.
Khoj Blog · Nov 2024
Khoj announced custom AI agents for all users, with private/protected/public sharing modes, tool access, and customized knowledge bases for recurring workflows.
Khoj Blog · Nov 2024
Khoj detailed its sandboxed code-execution stack for agents, including Pyodide/Terrarium, charting with matplotlib, and transparency by showing executed code to users.