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AnythingLLM Review 2026 — Best Open-Source All-in-One AI Platform
AnythingLLM is a free open-source AI desktop app with RAG, AI agents, multi-user workspaces, and support for Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic and 20+ LLM providers.
AnythingLLM runs AI models locally on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It lets users chat with documents, search the web, create agent workflows, run background jobs, and use meeting transcription and summaries.
Individuals can use the free desktop app or self-host with Docker. Teams can use the hosted cloud workspace, which starts at $50/monthly. External model providers, infrastructure, and API usage may cost extra.
Features
- Chat with documents stored in local knowledge bases
- Run web scraping and search workflows
- Create custom agent skills and tool workflows
- Run recurring tasks with background jobs
- Record, transcribe, summarize, and index meetings locally
- Read, write, and search local files
- Use a developer API and custom tool builder
- MIT-licensed open-source desktop and self-hosted software
Use cases
- Ask questions about private documents without uploading them
- Research topics with web search and document context
- Build agents that call tools and complete workflows
- Record meetings and generate summaries and action items
- Run recurring AI tasks on a local or hosted server
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Starting price
- $50/monthly
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Basic
$50/monthly
- Private instance
- Custom subdomain
- RAG, agents, and work right out of the box
- Just bring an LLM API Key
Pro
$99/monthly
- Private instance
- RAG, agents, work right out of the box
- Great for large teams
- 72-hour support SLA
Enterprise
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- On-premise deployment
- Custom SLA
- Custom integrations
- SSO, RBAC, and more