Self-hostable AI you can actually run.
A curated, verified directory of local-LLM tools and models โ with benchmarks measured on real consumer hardware, not marketing guesses.
Inference runtimes ยท 14
Ollama
Run open LLMs locally via a simple CLI and OpenAI-compatible REST API; pulls and serves GGUF models
llama.cpp
C/C++ LLM inference engine for GGUF models, runs on CPU/GPU across platforms
vLLM
High-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
GPT4All
Desktop app and bindings to run local LLMs privately on consumer hardware
LocalAI
OpenAI-compatible API to run LLM, image and audio models locally, no GPU required
Text Generation WebUI
Gradio web UI for running and chatting with local LLMs across many backends
Jan
Open-source offline ChatGPT-alternative desktop app running local models
SGLang
Fast serving framework for LLMs and vision-language models
MLX
Apple-silicon array framework for on-device ML including local LLM inference
llamafile
Distribute and run an LLM as a single cross-platform executable file
KoboldCpp
Single-file llama.cpp-based runner with a UI for local text and story generation
Text Generation Inference (TGI)
Hugging Face production toolkit for deploying and serving LLMs
TabbyAPI
FastAPI OpenAI-compatible server for ExLlamaV2 quantized model inference
LM Studio
Desktop app to discover, download and run local LLMs with a GUI and local server
Models ยท 9
Llama 3.2 3B
Small, fast Meta model good for on-device chat and lightweight tasks.
Llama 3.1 8B
Popular 8B general-purpose model; strong quality-to-size balance.
Qwen2.5 7B
Strong multilingual 7B model with a permissive license.
Qwen2.5-Coder 14B
Code-specialized 14B model competitive on programming benchmarks.
Gemma 2 9B
Google's efficient 9B open model, strong for its size.
Phi-3.5 Mini
Microsoft's compact 3.8B model tuned for reasoning in a small footprint.
Mistral 7B
Efficient, permissively-licensed 7B model widely used as a local baseline.
DeepSeek-R1 7B
Distilled reasoning model that exposes step-by-step thinking, runs locally.
Llama 3.3 70B
Large 70B model with near-frontier quality; needs a big GPU or lots of RAM.
Chat UIs ยท 10
Open WebUI
Self-hosted, feature-rich ChatGPT-like web UI for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs
Lobe Chat
Modern self-hostable chat UI framework with plugins and multi-provider support
AnythingLLM
All-in-one desktop/Docker chat app with built-in RAG over your documents
Chatbox
Cross-platform desktop chat client for local and cloud LLMs
LibreChat
Self-hosted multi-model chat UI supporting local and cloud LLM providers
SillyTavern
Local frontend for chatting with LLMs, focused on roleplay and character cards
Hugging Face Chat UI
Open-source SvelteKit chat UI that powers HuggingChat, self-hostable with local models
big-AGI
Self-hostable AI suite UI with many models, personas and tools
Enchanted
Native macOS/iOS client for chatting with your self-hosted Ollama models
Msty
Desktop app for running local and remote LLMs offline with a polished UI
RAG & agent frameworks ยท 14
n8n
Self-hostable workflow automation platform with AI/LLM and agent nodes
Langflow
Visual low-code builder for LangChain-based RAG and agent applications
Dify
Open-source LLM app platform with visual workflow, RAG pipelines and agents
LangChain
Framework for developing applications powered by LLMs, with local model support
RAGFlow
Open-source RAG engine with deep document understanding and citations
PrivateGPT
Fully local RAG API to chat with your documents, no data leaves the machine
CrewAI
Framework for orchestrating role-playing autonomous multi-agent teams
Flowise
Drag-and-drop builder for LLM chains, agents and RAG flows
LlamaIndex
Data framework for building RAG and agent apps over your own data
Quivr
Opinionated RAG framework to integrate GenAI over your files in apps
Onyx
Open-source AI assistant and RAG search over company docs (formerly Danswer)
Haystack
Python framework for building production RAG and LLM search pipelines
Kotaemon
Open-source RAG UI for chatting with your documents, works with local models
Letta
Platform for stateful agents with long-term memory (formerly MemGPT)
Coding assistants ยท 8
Continue
Open-source IDE assistant for VS Code/JetBrains, supports local Ollama models
Tabby
Self-hosted AI coding completion server, a private GitHub Copilot alternative
Cline
Autonomous coding agent for VS Code, works with local or cloud models
Aider
Terminal-based AI pair programmer that edits code in your git repo
Roo Code
Autonomous coding agent VS Code extension supporting local and cloud models
OpenHands
Autonomous software-development agent platform (formerly OpenDevin)
Twinny
Free, privacy-focused VS Code copilot designed for local Ollama models
Refact
Self-hosted AI coding assistant with completion, chat and fine-tuning
Image generation ยท 8
AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI
Popular Gradio web UI for running Stable Diffusion image generation locally
ComfyUI
Node-graph interface for Stable Diffusion and other diffusion model pipelines
Fooocus
Simplified offline Stable Diffusion image generator with minimal setup
Diffusers
Hugging Face library of pretrained diffusion models for image/audio/video generation
InvokeAI
Professional creative engine and UI for Stable Diffusion / diffusion models
Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge
Optimized A1111-based WebUI fork for faster local diffusion inference
Kohya_ss
GUI for training and fine-tuning Stable Diffusion LoRAs and models locally
SD.Next
All-in-one WebUI server for AI image and video generation and processing
Speech (STT / TTS) ยท 10
OpenAI Whisper
Robust open-weight speech recognition and translation model and reference code
whisper.cpp
C/C++ port of OpenAI Whisper for fast local speech-to-text on CPU/GPU
Coqui TTS
Deep-learning toolkit for local text-to-speech including XTTS voice cloning
Bark
Transformer-based text-to-audio model for local speech, music and effects
faster-whisper
CTranslate2 reimplementation of Whisper for faster local transcription
WhisperX
Whisper with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization for local ASR
Piper TTS
Fast, local neural text-to-speech optimized for Raspberry Pi and edge devices
Vosk
Offline speech recognition toolkit with small models for many languages
Kokoro TTS
Lightweight 82M-parameter open-weight TTS model with fast local inference
F5-TTS
Flow-matching TTS with high-quality zero-shot voice cloning (weights CC-BY-NC)