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Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

Jan at a glance

Category
Inference and training
Website
jan.ai

Is Jan growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Jan ranked #252 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #27 in Inference and training, with a momentum score of 37 out of 100.

New GitHub stars per week for Jan12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 123, 110, 162, 129, 109, 157, 123, 132, 136, 141, 120, 168 new stars, an average of 134 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
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New GitHub stars per week for Jan
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 2026123
Aug 16, 2026110
Aug 23, 2026162
Aug 30, 2026129
Sep 6, 2026109
Sep 13, 2026157
Sep 20, 2026123
Sep 27, 2026132
Oct 4, 2026136
Oct 11, 2026141
Oct 18, 2026120
Oct 25, 2026168

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

Jan alternatives

Other LLM inference and training tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Inference and training ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1dsh-our-free-modeldsh-our-free-model is a dsh plugin that provides DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and other models without login, sign-up or API key.54.3k–
#2magpiemagpie is a local gateway and app that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI use any provider's model.26.9k–
#3StrataStrata is a local inference engine and app that runs large open models like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware with…37.1k–
#4edge0edge0 is an open-source streaming inference framework that runs large sparse mixture-of-experts models on consumer hardware by streaming…8.9k–
#5OmniRouteOmniRoute is an open-source AI gateway that routes requests across many model providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with…83.2k106k
#6CLIProxyAPICLIProxyAPI is a Go proxy server that exposes CLI coding accounts like Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI through OpenAI, Gemini and…57.1k–

All LLM inference and training tools, ranked

Jan FAQ

How popular is Jan?

Jan has 45.2k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 168 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 134 a week. That made it #27 among LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Jan?

Other LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: dsh-our-free-model (#1), magpie (#2), Strata (#3), edge0 (#4), OmniRoute (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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