AnythingLLM vs Graphiti

AnythingLLM is a private AI assistant for desktop, mobile, cloud, and self-hosted use. Its desktop product runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the free Desktop plan requires no account or API key and has no token limits. It can turn documents into an agent knowledge base while keeping the data on the device. Desktop tools include file-system capabilities, web search and scraping, model selection, background jobs, custom agent skills, and a Meeting Assistant that records, transcribes, summarizes, and indexes meetings on the computer without a bot joining or cloud processing. The mobile app runs small models on-device and includes web search, document chat, file generation, scheduled jobs, and memory. Supported providers range from Ollama and LM Studio to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini Pro. Cloud instances support multiple users, tenant isolation, admin controls, and white-labeling. Self-hosted data remains on the user's infrastructure, according to the maker. The free plan is available; Basic costs $50 a month and Pro costs $99 a month.

Graphiti is an open-source framework for building and querying temporal context graphs for AI agents. It records validity periods for facts, allowing applications to ask what is true now or what was true at a previous point in time. New structured and unstructured information is integrated incrementally rather than requiring a complete graph rebuild. Derived entities and relationships remain linked to their source episodes for provenance. Retrieval combines semantic search, keyword search, and graph traversal, with result reranking. Developers can define entity and edge types with Pydantic models or let structure emerge from incoming data. Supported graph backends listed by the project are Neo4j, FalkorDB, and Amazon Neptune; Kuzu is deprecated. Graphiti includes FastAPI REST and MCP services, supports several LLM providers, runs locally, and is self-hosted. It requires Python 3.10 or newer and an LLM API key. The Apache-2.0 framework is free.