Every document on your computer — instantly findable.
| PersonalOne person, one computer | FamilyOne computer, unlimited documents, with AI | ArchiveSmall offices, libraries & collections — multiple users | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Search | |||
| Full-text keyword search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snippet previews in results | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Context panel (click to preview content) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sort by relevance, date, size, title | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filter results by file type | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Semantic (AI) search | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI question-answering | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Indexing & Scanning | |||
| Local file & folder indexing | Up to 5,000 docs | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Daily background scanning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scan Now on demand | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Archive extraction (ZIP, TAR, CBZ) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scan root folders | One folder | Multiple folders | Multiple folders |
| Video transcription | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio transcription | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image description (AI vision) | — | — | ✓ |
| File Formats | |||
| PDF, Word, WordPerfect, EPUB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML, plain text, Markdown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Excel, CSV, ODS spreadsheets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video files (MP4, MKV, MOV…) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio files (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC…) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image files (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC…) | — | — | ✓ |
| AI & Cloud | |||
| Can work completely offline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud AI (Azure today) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Local AI via Ollama | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-detect Ollama models | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud source connectors (Dropbox, OneDrive) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access & Scale | |||
| System tray app — always indexed and ready | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optional launch at Windows login | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open files from results | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows desktop app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple configurations / indexes | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple machines / shared index | — | — | ✓ |
| MariaDB backend | — | — | ✓ |
| Web interface (browser-based access) | — | — | ✓ |
| Priority support | — | — | ✓ |
Introductory rates. We may adjust pricing on new orders later as we gather feedback — existing customers are unaffected. Family licenses are locked to their major version (a $49 1.x license remains valid for every 1.x update, regardless of future price changes). Archive annual subscriptions stay grandfathered until they lapse; perpetual Archive licenses are locked in by definition.
| Tier | Users | Annual subscription | Perpetual license | Annual updates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small | up to 5 | $149/yr | $449 | $89/yr |
| Office | up to 25 | $399/yr | $1,199 | $239/yr |
| Site | up to 100 | $899/yr | $2,499 | $499/yr |
| Enterprise | 100+ | Contact us → | ||
Annual subscription — always-current; renews yearly. Lapses if not renewed.
Perpetual license — pay once, use forever. Includes the first year of updates.
Annual updates — optional. Pay annually after year one to keep getting new versions on a perpetual license; skip and your version locks at whatever you had when you stopped.
An Archive license covers one Arion installation (typically a shared server with the web interface enabled). The tier you pick caps how many users that installation supports — 5, 25, or 100. You can add and remove users freely within the cap; we don't charge per user, per search, or per seat.
Larger than 100 users? The Enterprise tier handles deployments above the Site cap with custom pricing — multi-site rollouts, branch-office bundles, university or hospital systems, and similar. Email hello@chordalia.com with your user count and deployment shape and we'll get back to you with a quote.
How to buy today
We're actively building these features for the Archive edition. Planned capabilities are subject to change.