Is Kosmico another language model?
No. Kosmico is a research workspace that can use managed cloud models and supported local models while preserving project context around them.
Product definition
What is Kosmico?
Kosmico is an AI research workspace where literature, files, writing, code, references, project knowledge, agents, and collaborators share one project context.
Kosmico is the product made by Kosmico SAS at kosmico.ai. It is an operating environment around AI models, not a new foundation model. Kosmo is its project-aware agent.
One project instead of disconnected handoffs
A research task rarely ends with an answer in chat. It produces a paper library, notes, analyses, code, a manuscript, a bibliography, decisions, and work for collaborators. Kosmico keeps those artifacts in the same project so an agent and the team can work from the same state.
The useful distinction is continuity: search results can become project papers, evidence can become notes and citations, code can update an analysis, and the result can be carried into writing without rebuilding context in another application.
Who it is designed for
Kosmico is designed for researchers, graduate students, technical teams, and laboratories whose work crosses literature review, analysis, writing, and collaboration.
- Individuals who want one durable project context across models
- Labs that need shared files, roles, review, and research memory
- Teams that need traceable sources and editable deliverables, not only generated prose
How to evaluate it
Choose a research tool by the workflow it completes, the evidence it preserves, the human effort it requires, and the boundaries it states. The benchmark page defines how Kosmico will measure those outcomes. It does not publish placeholder performance numbers.
Official source
Current product facts
Kosmico v0.7.6 · Verified
Availability
- Availability
- public beta
- Access
- Open sign-up: create a free account in the web app or the desktop app. No activation code is needed.
Model policy
Cloud models come from a catalogue Kosmico manages and are included in your plan, metered as tokens. Free plans get the free models; paid plans unlock the rest. The catalogue is updated from the admin dashboard, so the list can change between releases.
- Recommended
- Recommended is the default: before each message Kosmico picks the model your plan includes. A model you choose yourself stays selected.
- BYOK
- Not supported. There is nowhere to enter an API key, and a ChatGPT or Claude subscription cannot power the chat. It works the other way round: Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients can use your project through Kosmico's MCP server on desktop.
Data flows
Local project (desktop)
- Files stay on your disk.
- A project you never sync does not leave the machine and does not count toward your plan's project limit.
Synced project
- Cloud sync is a switch on each project. A new project starts with it on while your plan has synced-project slots left.
- When it is on, the project's contents are copied to Kosmico's cloud so collaborators and the web app can reach them. Secrets such as .env files and keys are never synced.
- You can turn it off on projects you own: the cloud copy is removed, your files stay on the device, and anyone you shared it with loses access.
Cloud model
- Your message, and whatever Kosmo reads to answer it, go through Kosmico to the cloud model you selected.
- Conversations are stored so they sync across your devices, and you can delete them.
- Kosmico does not use your documents or prompts to train AI models.
Local model
- With a local Ollama model, nothing leaves your machine.
Direct answers
What is Kosmo?
Kosmo is the agent inside Kosmico. It works with the project context and, subject to the active mode and permissions, can use tools that act on project artifacts.
Where is the official Kosmico website?
The canonical website is https://kosmico.ai. The web app is at https://web.kosmico.ai, and the desktop apps for macOS and Windows are on the downloads page.