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AnythingLLM
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Free all-in-one desktop AI app to chat with your documents and run RAG and AI agents fully local and private.
682K visits/mo
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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.
29K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)
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Core features
- ✦Chat with your documents (RAG)
- ✦Runs locally and offline for privacy
- ✦Supports any LLM (local or cloud)
- ✦Built-in AI agents
- ✦Handles PDFs, Word, CSV, codebases
- ✦No-code setup
- ✦Text and SMS chat
- ✦Appointment booking
- ✦Reminders
- ✦Digital payments
- ✦Video calls
- ✦AI-assisted communication (CoPilot)
- ✦Wellness and Loyalty Plans
- ✦PMS Integration
- ✦Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
- ✦Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
- ✦Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
- ✦MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
- ✦Workspaces and chunk-level access control
- ✦On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
Use cases
- →Privately querying your own documents
- →Running local AI without the cloud
- →Building AI agents over your data
- →Using multiple LLM providers in one app
- →Streamlining communication between veterinary clinics and pet owners
- →Managing appointment requests and bookings
- →Processing digital payments for veterinary services
- →Sending reminders for medication and appointments
- →Boosting wellness plan subscriptions
- →Reducing missed calls at veterinary clinics
- →Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
- →OCR and structure scanned documents
- →Grounded document search with citations for agents
- →Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
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