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NextChat is an open-source ai chat project by ChatGPTNextWeb (ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat on GitHub). It has 88,826 GitHub stars and 58,930 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 11 August 2026.
One binary or app gets you a working local model setup.
Pick a size that fits your RAM/VRAM; smaller models run on laptops.
Use the built-in UI, or point OpenAI-compatible clients at it.
Airplane mode works — your prompts never leave the device.
Ask questions over your PDFs, notes, and codebases.
Pay nothing per token, ever.
Prompts and documents stay on your hardware, always.
RAG, tools, and agents build on the same base.
Smart compression runs big models on modest hardware.
Works on planes, in basements, behind firewalls.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat.git
cd NextChatEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat with 58,930 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
MIT licensed — use it commercially, no strings attached.
8B models run on 16GB RAM; bigger models want a real GPU.
A recent 8–32B instruct model is the sweet spot for most machines.
Yes — with no network calls, there's nothing to leak.
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