AnythingLLM vs Requesty

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.

Requesty is a managed AI gateway that gives applications access to more than 600 models through one API. Its OpenAI-compatible API can work with existing SDK code after changing the base URL and API key. Routing features include policy and regional rules, automatic failover and load balancing. Requesty tracks cost, latency and usage, with analytics by model, user and team. Governance options include PII detection and scrubbing, content guardrails, team roles, model allowlists and audit logs. Named integrations include OpenAI, LangChain, PydanticAI, Vercel AI SDK, Haystack and LlamaIndex TS; the integrations page also lists tools such as Claude Code, Cline, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, n8n, LibreChat and OpenWebUI. The Free plan costs nothing and allows 200 requests per day. Pay as you go costs $5 a month, with a 5% markup on model cost. Enterprise pricing is custom. Requesty is available via API and web; self-hosting is not offered.