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Cognira · House #23,091

Better thinking, better answers.

In the General-purpose AI assistants neighborhood (AI and agents). In town since 26 Sept 2026.

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What Tablif read on Cognira's site

Cognira describes itself as: “cognira — Better thinking, better answers | cognira.dev”

What it is

Calls itself “AI assistant”.

  • Calls itself: AI assistant
“…cognira — Better thinking, better answers | cognira.dev”
“…cognira is a free, self-learning AI assistant served from one 16GB iMac.”

Where it puts itself

Claims “free”. Rules out “ads”.

  • Superlative claim: free
  • Says it will not: ads
“No. cognira does not forward your question to an external answer API.”
“…cognira is a free, self-learning AI assistant served from one 16GB iMac.”

What it costs

Monthly subscription. A free tier, free forever. 4 prices listed on its pages, from £0 to £30.

  • Monthly: yes
  • Free plan: free forever
  • Price: 4 prices, from £0 to £30
“£ 0 forever”
“£1.50 per 1M tokens”

Who it sells to

Sells to consumers.

  • Sells to: consumers
“…cognira is a free, self-learning AI assistant”

How it runs

A command-line tool and desktop app for Linux, Windows and macOS. Runs locally and works offline. Hosted in the cloud. Offers an API. Open source. AI is the core of the product.

  • Kind: cli · desktop
  • Runs on: Linux · Windows · macOS
  • Runs where: cloud / hosted · on the device, offline
  • API: yes
  • Open source: yes
  • AI role: core to the product
“It lives in your machine. It learns you. Nothing leaves. A self-learning AI on your own hardware. Local models, local memory — it can retrain its own weights on your conversations.”
“…cognira Entity is the local product: the same models, running entirely on your hardware”

What it works with

Runs inside cognira Entity and cognira Retrain 12B. Built on cognira Retrain 12B. Names ChatGPT, Claude and 3 more on its pages.

  • Runs inside: cognira Entity · cognira Retrain 12B
  • Built on: cognira Retrain 12B
  • Names: ChatGPT · Claude · Gemma 4 · +2
“…cognira (cognira.dev) is an independent, self-learning AI assistant built by Thomas Conway. Teach it a preference, a fact, or a word and it remembers from the next reply. It is not a wrapper around ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.”
“…cognira Retrain 12B is our current model, retrained on top of a Gemma 4 base and served ourselves through MLX on our own machine.”

What it offers as proof

Live, no waitlist. Try it without signing up. Publishes a blog.

  • Instant signup: yes
  • Trial asks for: nothing
“Start free No card required”
“No card required 30-second setup Free to use”

Sources

Tablif read these pages, last on 9 Oct 2026. Everything above is what the product says about itself; Tablif does not verify every claim.

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