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Inference runtimes

14 self-hostable inference runtimes — verified and locality-checked.

Ollama

175,976

Run open LLMs locally via a simple CLI and OpenAI-compatible REST API; pulls and serves GGUF models

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only MIT

llama.cpp

120,129

C/C++ LLM inference engine for GGUF models, runs on CPU/GPU across platforms

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only MIT

vLLM

86,043

High-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only Apache-2.0

GPT4All

77,391

Desktop app and bindings to run local LLMs privately on consumer hardware

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only MIT

LocalAI

47,497

OpenAI-compatible API to run LLM, image and audio models locally, no GPU required

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only MIT

Text Generation WebUI

47,443

Gradio web UI for running and chatting with local LLMs across many backends

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only AGPL-3.0

Jan

43,514

Open-source offline ChatGPT-alternative desktop app running local models

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only AGPL-3.0

SGLang

30,212

Fast serving framework for LLMs and vision-language models

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only Apache-2.0

MLX

27,526

Apple-silicon array framework for on-device ML including local LLM inference

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only MIT

llamafile

25,372

Distribute and run an LLM as a single cross-platform executable file

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only Apache-2.0

KoboldCpp

11,006

Single-file llama.cpp-based runner with a UI for local text and story generation

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only AGPL-3.0

Text Generation Inference (TGI)

10,870

Hugging Face production toolkit for deploying and serving LLMs

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only Apache-2.0

TabbyAPI

1,275

FastAPI OpenAI-compatible server for ExLlamaV2 quantized model inference

inference-runtime ✓ verified 🔒 local-only AGPL-3.0

LM Studio

Desktop app to discover, download and run local LLMs with a GUI and local server

inference-runtime ✓ verified ☁ cloud-optional proprietary