Gotchi vs Claude
Powerful reasoning without the cloud
Claude is an excellent language model - but it lives in Anthropic's cloud. Gotchi runs comparable open-source models on your hardware, with zero data leaving your machine.
| Feature | Gotchi | Claude |
|---|---|---|
| Runs locally | ||
| Internet required | ||
| Pricing | Free core · €49.99/yr all-in | Per-token / $20+/mo |
| Data privacy | 100% on-device | Sent to Anthropic servers |
| Model selection | Full open-source library | Claude family only |
| Offline access | ||
| Agent workflows | Limited (MCP) | |
| Connectors (Gmail, Slack, etc.) | ||
| Knowledge base indexing | ||
| Personal AI memory | Partial (project context) | |
| Open source | Open core | |
| API key required |
Why it matters
Your conversations stay yours
Every prompt you send to Claude travels to Anthropic's servers, gets processed, and is subject to their data policies. With Gotchi, inference happens on your own machine. No third-party access, no usage metering. You get comparable quality from top open-source models like Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek - entirely offline.
Data boundary
Conversations
Documents
Embeddings
0 bytes sent to the cloud
Cost at scale
Stop paying per token
Claude's API pricing adds up fast for power users and teams. Gotchi uses your existing hardware - run as many tokens as you want, as often as you want, at zero marginal cost. No credit card, no rate limits, no surprise invoices.
Yearly spendunlimited usage
Cloud APIs$720+/yr
Cloud subscription$240/yr
Gotchi€49.99/yr
Get Claude-class reasoning, locally
Download Gotchi and run state-of-the-art open models on your machine. Private, unlimited, and always available.
macOS·Windows·No telemetry·Free core · €49.99/yr all-in · Free updates