Jan vs Pi

Side-by-side comparison of Jan and Pi: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Jan Personal AI intelligence that runs locally and answers only to you Visit	Pi Your personal AI — a kind, supportive conversational companion powered by Inflection AI Visit
Category	Chat assistants	Chat assistants
Pricing	Free	Free
Starting price	Free	Free
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	Non-technical
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Multi-provider (Llama, Mistral, Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, and more)	Inflection AI
Founded		2022
Headquarters	Singapore, Singapore	Palo Alto, USA
Key strengths	·Fully open-source with 42.8K+ GitHub stars ·Runs AI models 100% locally for complete privacy ·Supports both local open models and remote API-based models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) ·Persistent memory context across conversations	·Empathetic, emotionally intelligent conversational style ·Designed for open-ended personal dialogue and reflection ·Available across web, iOS, and Android with voice support ·Backed by Inflection AI's proprietary large language models