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Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
Always-on cloud AI agent that runs multi-step workflows and monitoring on a dedicated 24/7 VM to automate business tasks.
AI super-assistant plus enterprise ML platform: ChatLLM for teams and end-to-end model building for enterprises; broad, pricing not shown.
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- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦Always-on agent on a dedicated 24/7 VM
- ✦Multi-step task automation (docs, PPT, video, research)
- ✦Proactive monitoring with alerts and actions
- ✦Shared/self-improving agent knowledge network
- ✦Page deployment and drive storage
- ✦ChatLLM access to multiple top AI models
- ✦AI agents and automation
- ✦No-code full-stack app creation
- ✦Enterprise generative AI platform
- ✦Structured ML model building
- ✦Optimization and forecasting
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →Automating recurring business workflows overnight
- →Generating reports, documents and presentations
- →Monitoring uptime, pricing or metrics with auto-actions
- →Running research and content tasks hands-off
- →Chat with many AI models in one place
- →Build and deploy ML models
- →Automate tasks with AI agents