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GPT4All vs LocalAI
GPT4All or LocalAI? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Search over your data
- Only GPT4All states: No code retained, Official SDKs
- Only LocalAI states: Runs commands, VS Code, Command line, Self-hosted, Runs models for you, Builds agents and workflows
GPT4All
GPT4All runs open-source language models locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with local document chat and a Python SDK.
Plans
Free
Free
- No credit card required
- Limited agent requests
- Access to core Platform surfaces
Individual
- $20 / mo.
- Extended agent requests
- All product surfaces except Agent API
- Included AI usage with on-demand top-ups
- Solo workspace
Business
- $40 / user / mo.
- $20 included AI usage per seat
- Project delivery
- File integrations (Autodesk, Bentley, SharePoint, and more)
- Centralized team billing and administration
- Usage analytics and reporting
- Org-wide privacy controls
Enterprise
Price on request
- Pooled usage commits
- Invoice / PO billing
- SCIM seat management
- Audit logs and compliance reporting
- Multi-region data hosting (EU, AU, US, UK)
- Priority support and dedicated CSM
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “support for thousands of models” source
- No code retained — “GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI right on your device—no cloud required, no data leaves your machine.” source
- API — “GPT4All API Server” source
- Official SDKs — “GPT4All Python SDK” source
- Search over your data — “Nomic's embedding models can bring information from your local documents and files into your chats.” source
Latest updates
- Nomic live on Autodesk Marketplace
Nomic is now live on Autodesk's Design & Make Marketplace as an official Autodesk AECO Partner.
- Nomic Supports Data Residency Across Europe, UK, US, and Australia
Nomic now supports customer data hosting in AWS regions across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
- Announcing a new Nomic Platform
Nomic announced a new Nomic Platform.
LocalAI
LocalAI runs AI models on your own hardware through an OpenAI-compatible local server and web interface.
Plans
Not read from the maker’s page yet.
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Runs commands — “It runs shell commands behind an approval gate you control, delegates to sub-agents, and loads MCP servers, plugins and skills.” source
- VS Code — “Install on openSUSE and drive it from VS Code” source
- Command line — “Run local-ai chat and you are talking to an agent that already knows where your models are.” source
- Choice of models — “Every tier of every model we quantize, ranked against the hardware you actually have and installed with one click.” source
- Self-hosted — “keep your data on your hardware, and scale to a room full of GPUs when you need more capacity.” source
- API — “One binary with an OpenAI-compatible API in front of it.” source
- Runs models for you — “Point an existing client at it and the calls keep working, except now the model is on your machine.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Run local-ai chat and you are talking to an agent that already knows where your models are.” source
- Search over your data — “Agents, MCP, skills, RAG, interactive tools” source
Latest updates
- v4.10.0 (v4.10.0)
Added a fleet operations dashboard, credentials.yaml authentication, and CLI end-to-end latency and throughput benchmarking.
- v4.9.0 (v4.9.0)
Authentication now defaults to deny; chat supports context compression, canonical model/backend pages, and video serving in vllm-cpp.
- v4.8.0 (v4.8.0)
Added the vllm-cpp backend, 3D generation, a multi-family audio.cpp engine, hardware-matched gallery builds, and distributed-mode fixes.