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GPT4All

GPT4All is an AI chat assistant, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…) and local model execution.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

GPT4All is an AI chat assistant, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: open-weight models (Llama, Mistral…) and local model execution.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Now with support for DeepSeek R1 Distillations” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot | Nomic” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot | Nomic” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of GPT4All is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Plans and conditions

  • The publisher also offers paid plans (hosting, support or services); they are described on its website.

Strengths

  • Local AI, on your computer (capability established by the official page)
  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Cross platform Qt based GUI for GPT4All Fast CPU and GPU based inference using ggml for open source LLM's The UI is made to look and feel like you've come to expect from a chatty gpt Check for updates so you can always stay fresh with latest models Easy to install with precompiled binaries available for all three major desktop platforms Multi-model - Ability to load more than one model and switch between them Supports llama.cpp style models Model downloader in GUI featuring many popular open source models Settings dialog to change temp, top_p, top_k, threads, etc Copy your conversation to clipboard

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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