GPT4All
GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use.
Our verdict
A notable project that carries real maintenance risk. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-30, not from hands-on testing.
GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use. The project is written primarily in C++, released under MIT, and has 77,396 stars and 8,294 forks on GitHub. 122 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2025-05-27. The latest tagged release is v3.10.0 (2025-02-25). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-30 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- C++
- Last push
- 2025-05-27
Releases
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v3.10.0v3.10.0 -
v3.9.0v3.9.0 -
v3.8.0v3.8.0 -
v3.7.0v3.7.0 -
v3.6.1v3.6.1 -
v3.6.0v3.6.0
Pros and cons
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Free tierYes
- LicenceMIT
- Self-hostYes, source is public
- Public price listNot published
GPT4All does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales. Why we do this
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Price points are recorded when a price moves, not on a schedule, so a flat run means the price held. Release cadence comes from GitHub releases. A series appears only once we have watched it for long enough to have more than one observation.
What users actually say
- What are your thoughts on Nomic's GPT4all ecosystem Reddit · 2024
- r/LocalLLaMA - GPT4All 3.0: The Open-Source Local LLM … Reddit · 2024
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Side by side
| Tool | Our score | From | Free tier | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT4All this page | 4.8 | - | Yes | ||
| GPT4Free | 7.7 | - | Yes | ||
| Anyscale | 5.5 | $3 | Yes | ||
| Artificial Analysis | 5.3 | - | - | ||
| Hugging Face | 5.2 | $9 | - | ||
| gpt_academic | 5.0 | - | Yes | ||
| Cerebras | 4.9 | - | Yes |
Questions
Is gpt4all free?
Yes. gpt4all advertises a free tier on its own site.
How much does gpt4all cost?
gpt4all does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales.
Is gpt4all open source?
Yes. gpt4all is a public repository released under MIT. You can self-host or inspect the source directly.
How is gpt4all scored here?
gpt4all scores 4.8 out of 10. That comes from a desk review of public evidence, which is capped at 8.5 out of 10: public pricing, documentation, maintenance signals and how much we could actually verify. Affiliate relationships are excluded from scoring entirely. The full rubric is published on our methodology page.