AnythingLLM: a private assistant for your own documents

What is AnythingLLM?

AnythingLLM is a desktop assistant built around your own documents. You point it at files, it indexes them locally, and you ask questions that are answered from them by a model running on the same machine. It is MIT licensed and made by Mintplex Labs, and the desktop edition describes itself as running entirely on your computer with no accounts, no API keys and no token limits.

At a glance

Product identity

Pricing

The desktop application is free and MIT licensed, with no account and no token limits. A separate cloud edition for teams exists and its price is not published on the site, which ClickTug records as an unpriced tier of a different product rather than describing the desktop software as unpriced.

The desktop edition is free outright rather than a limited version of a paid one. No token limits, no API keys and no account are required, and the MIT licence means it is free for organisational use as well as personal.

Refunds: Nothing is sold for the desktop edition, so no refund terms apply to it.

Platforms

macOS, Windows and Linux as a desktop application, with a mobile app and a hosted cloud edition offered separately. The desktop version is the one this listing covers, because it is the one that runs locally.

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Feature matrix

Absence of evidence is not recorded as absence of a feature. Anything that needs an account to confirm is marked not tested rather than "no".

Privacy and data

The desktop edition runs on your own computer and indexes your documents there, so files are not uploaded and retention is whatever your own filesystem does. The claim that matters most for this kind of tool is that the documents stay put, and that is the design rather than a promise. Connect a remote provider with your own key and prompts reach that company instead, which is a decision you make rather than a default.

Privacy disclosure

What the vendor lets you know before paying

This measures disclosure, not quality. A good product can document nothing, and that is worth knowing separately from whether it is any good.

Content policy and safety

AnythingLLM documents its output filtering asno documented output filter, and its age policy as none stated.

AnythingLLM does not offer clothing removal from photographs of real people. ClickTug does not list tools that do. Its stated position on the likeness of real people is that documented consent is required.

What the vendor prohibits

• Nothing is enforced by the desktop application, which ships no model of its own
• What a session refuses belongs to the model or provider you connected

General-purpose productivity software rather than an adult product, listed for the local cluster. The cloud edition is a separate hosted service and nothing on this page describes it.

AnythingLLM runs on your own hardware, so it receives none of what you generate. ClickTug does not require a minor safety policy or an acceptable use policy from a tool that never receives user content, because there would be nothing for such a policy to govern. Any optional hosted tier is a separate service under its own terms.

ClickTug content policy

ClickTug verdict

The local entry for people whose problem is documents rather than conversation. AnythingLLM indexes your files on your own machine and answers from them, MIT licensed and free, with the desktop edition stating it needs no accounts, no API keys and no token limits. Mintplex Labs is a named company, which several projects here cannot offer. It is general-purpose productivity software rather than an adult product, listed for the local cluster, and a separate cloud edition exists alongside it without a published price.

Hands on

How AnythingLLM compares

Every figure on the right is computed across the 37 tools ClickTug currently tracks, at the moment this page was built. They are facts about this catalogue rather than about the market, and they move as it grows.

Quick answers about AnythingLLM

Generated from the same records as the tables above, so an answer here cannot contradict a figure there. Questions only appear when the answer says something specific to this product.

Is AnythingLLM free?

There is a free tier. The whole desktop application, MIT licensed, with no account, no API keys and no token limits.

How much does AnythingLLM cost?

No price is published. The desktop application is free and MIT licensed. A separate cloud edition for teams exists and is not priced on the homepage, which is a fact about that tier rather than about the software you install.

Does AnythingLLM require a credit card to start?

No card is required to reach the free layer. One is needed for any paid plan.

Does AnythingLLM offer refunds?

Nothing is sold for the desktop edition, so no refund terms apply to it.

Does AnythingLLM have an app?

No. It runs in a web browser only, which is common for adult products because both app stores restrict them.

Can AnythingLLM run locally?

Yes. It runs models on your own hardware, so prompts and output never leave the machine and the retention question does not arise.

Does AnythingLLM train on my conversations?

The vendor states it does not use user content to train models. That is a written commitment, and rarer in this category than it should be.

Can I delete my AnythingLLM account?

Yes, through a control in the account rather than by asking support.

Can I use AnythingLLM without an account?

Yes. The service can be reached without registering, which almost nothing else in this directory permits.

Is AnythingLLM actually uncensored?

ClickTug records no documented output filter, which is a different claim from having no rules: its terms still prohibit a specific list of conduct, set out above.

What company owns AnythingLLM, and where?

Mintplex Labs, Not stated on the site. Publishing an identifiable counterparty is worth noting: several tools in this directory name no company at all.