Our cloud models
Ready to use with your KolHive account.
Any AINow available
Bring the AI you trust. Switch when a better one arrives.
Use our cloud models, connect your own AI service, or run a model on your own computer. Your own AI service, local models and command-line assistants come with the Business plan.
Free for macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. Start demo
Your own keys
Connect your own API key to a supported AI service.
Local models
Run a model on your own computer and connect the assistant to it.
Coding assistants
Use a compatible command-line AI assistant installed on your computer.
Choose per job, not per product
Different work suits different models. In KolHive the choice is a setting, not a new app.
KolHive cloud models
Sign in and start. Usage is counted against your KolHive account.
Your own API key
Connect your own API key to a supported AI service.
A model on your computer
Run a model on your own computer and connect the assistant to it.
Command-line assistants
Use a compatible command-line AI assistant installed on your computer.
The same desktop, whichever model you pick
Changing the model does not change where your work lives.
Same tools
Every provider works through the same typed tools and permission checks.
Same files and apps
Your documents, recordings and apps stay on the desktop; only the model doing the thinking changes.
Same rules
Actions that change your work still ask first, whichever model proposed them.
No lock-in
When a better model comes out, switch to it in Settings.
What you can use today, and what is coming
Available now
- KolHive for macOS, Windows, and Linux, free, and in the browser at web.kolhive.com.
- Local models on your own computer, in the KolHive desktop apps, with the Business plan.
- The desktop in the web demo at demo.kolhive.com. AI is switched off in the demo, so model choice is not part of it.
Coming
- KolHive for iPhone and iPad: in App Store review.
- KolHive for Android: coming to Google Play.
How you connect your own AI
Open Settings
Go to the AI section of KolHive's settings.
Pick a provider
Our cloud models, an AI service with your own key, or a model on your computer.
Add the key or the address
Paste your API key, or the address of the model server on your computer.
Test the connection
KolHive checks the connection before the assistant relies on it.
Questions and answers
Can I use an AI chat subscription?
Not as the model inside KolHive: a chat subscription does not include API access. You can still connect ChatGPT or Claude.ai to your KolHive files; the ChatGPT and Claude guide shows how.
Can I connect my own AI service?
Yes, with the Business plan. Add the API key of a supported AI service in KolHive's AI settings; that service bills you for what you use.
Can the AI run completely on my computer?
Yes, with the Business plan. Run a model on your computer, add its address in KolHive's AI settings, and the assistant uses it without sending your work to a cloud model.
Who bills me when I use my own key?
Requests made with your own key are billed by that provider, under your account with them.
Can I use this today?
Yes. Download KolHive for macOS, Windows or Linux, or open web.kolhive.com, with a free account, and use the cloud models. Your own AI service, local models and command-line assistants come with the Business plan.
Keep exploring KolHive
- AI OSWhat an AI operating system is, and how KolHive works as one.
- Private AIA model on your own computer, files kept local, apps that ask first.
- AI that uses your appsAn assistant that opens files, edits documents and drives the video timeline.
- Every deviceThe same desktop, apps and files on computer, phone and browser.
- ChatGPT and ClaudeUse ChatGPT, Claude and your own AI apps with your files.
Get KolHive.
Download it for your computer or open it in the browser. One free account for KolHive, KolChat and KolWrite.