Khoj
by Khoj · Three AI tools: personal assistant, research workbench and desktop co-worker
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Overview
Khoj is an applied AI company with three products. Open Paper is a research workbench for reading and organising papers with citations you can verify; Pipali is a beta desktop AI co-worker you assign tasks to, track progress on and get deliverables from, running on your own computer; the Khoj app builds agents, schedules automations and researches across your docs and the web.
- Best for
- Individuals wanting AI agents and research tools that work over their own documents and the web
- Pricing
- No prices are shown on the captured page.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Khoj app researches across your own docs and the web
- Open Paper shows paper citations you can verify
- Pipali runs assigned tasks on your own computer
- Team states it builds in the open, with a public GitHub
Trade-offs
- Pipali, the desktop co-worker, is still marked BETA
- No pricing, plans or figures published on the page
- Three separate products rather than one tool
- No detail given on models, platforms or limits
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Khoj’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Khoj pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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