Local/Open-Source AI — AI tools

AI you can run yourself: local LLM runners, open-weight models, self-hosted inference servers, and the tooling around them. For anyone who prefers weights on their own hardware over a metered API.

160 tools listed · 126 added in the last 30 days · newest: Applio, Langroid, DeerFlow

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AIChat All-in-one LLM CLI with chat, RAG, and shell assistant modes First bid €3 → #1
AIMET Qualcomm's library for neural network quantization and pruning First bid €3 → #1
Agent Zero Self-hosted general-purpose agent framework with a web UI First bid €3 → #1
AgentScope Agent-oriented programming framework First bid €3 → #1
Ai2 Truly open models (OLMo) First bid €3 → #1
Alpaca Linux desktop client for Ollama built with GTK4 First bid €3 → #1
Answer.AI R&D lab shipping practical open-source AI tools and models First bid €3 → #1
AnythingLLM All-in-one private AI app First bid €3 → #1
Aphrodite Engine High-throughput open LLM inference First bid €3 → #1
Applio Open-source voice conversion tool based on RVC First bid €3 → #1
Atomic Agents Modular Python framework for schema-driven AI agents First bid €3 → #1
Automa Open-source browser workflow automation First bid €3 → #1
Axolotl Post-training toolkit for open models First bid €3 → #1
BGE (FlagEmbedding) BAAI's open BGE embedding and reranker model family, widely used in RAG retrieval pipelines First bid €3 → #1
BeeAI Framework Open-source agent framework in Python and TypeScript First bid €3 → #1
Burn Deep learning framework written in Rust First bid €3 → #1
Candle (Hugging Face) Minimalist Rust ML framework First bid €3 → #1
Chai Discovery Open frontier models for molecular structure First bid €3 → #1
ChatTTS Open TTS model optimized for conversational dialogue speech in English and Chinese First bid €3 → #1
Chatbox Desktop and mobile client for chatting with local and cloud AI models First bid €3 → #1
Chatterbox Resemble AI's open TTS with voice cloning First bid €3 → #1
Cherry Studio Open-source desktop client supporting many LLM providers and assistants First bid €3 → #1
DVC Open-source data and model versioning First bid €3 → #1
DataLine Chat with your data, privately First bid €3 → #1
DeerFlow ByteDance's open-source deep research agent framework First bid €3 → #1
DocsGPT Self-hostable open-source RAG assistant for chatting with your documents and knowledge bases First bid €3 → #1
EasyOCR Python OCR library with ready-to-use recognition models covering 80+ languages First bid €3 → #1
EleutherAI Open-source AI research collective First bid €3 → #1
EvolutionaryScale ESM frontier models for biology First bid €3 → #1
ExLlamaV2 Fast local inference for quantized LLMs First bid €3 → #1
ExecuTorch PyTorch runtime for on-device inference First bid €3 → #1
Filigran Open-source threat intel (OpenCTI) and attack simulation tools First bid €3 → #1
Frigate Local AI object detection for security cameras First bid €3 → #1
GPT4All (Nomic) Run LLMs on your desktop First bid €3 → #1
GPTQModel Maintained GPTQ quantization toolkit for LLMs, the successor to AutoGPTQ First bid €3 → #1
GPUStack Open-source GPU cluster manager for AI models First bid €3 → #1
Gemma (Google) Google's family of open-weight language models built from Gemini research and technology First bid €3 → #1
Higgs Audio Boson AI's open audio foundation model for expressive speech First bid €3 → #1
Hugging Face Optimum Toolkit to optimize and quantize models for target hardware First bid €3 → #1
IPEX-LLM Accelerate local LLMs on Intel GPUs and NPUs First bid €3 → #1
Immich Self-hosted photos with local AI search First bid €3 → #1
InternVL Open-source multimodal vision-language model family First bid €3 → #1
Jan Open-source AI assistant that runs offline First bid €3 → #1
K8sGPT Kubernetes diagnostics with AI First bid €3 → #1
KTransformers Run huge MoE models on limited local hardware First bid €3 → #1
Karakeep Self-hosted bookmarking app with AI tagging and search First bid €3 → #1
Keep Open-source AIOps and alert management First bid €3 → #1
Keras Multi-backend deep learning framework First bid €3 → #1
Kiln Free app for fine-tuning and synthetic data First bid €3 → #1
KoboldCpp Single-file local LLM inference First bid €3 → #1
Kohya_ss GUI Gradio GUI for Kohya's Stable Diffusion training scripts, widely used for LoRA training First bid €3 → #1
Kotaemon Open-source clean RAG UI for chatting with your documents First bid €3 → #1
Krita AI Diffusion Krita plugin for AI inpainting and image generation using a local Stable Diffusion/ComfyUI backend First bid €3 → #1
LLM (Datasette) CLI for local and remote LLMs First bid €3 → #1
LLM Compressor Quantize and compress models for vLLM serving First bid €3 → #1
LLMWare Open-source RAG with small models First bid €3 → #1
LM Studio Discover and run local LLMs First bid €3 → #1
LMQL Programming language for LLM interaction First bid €3 → #1
LangGraph LangChain's open-source framework for building stateful, graph-structured agent workflows First bid €3 → #1
Langroid Python framework for multi-agent LLM programming First bid €3 → #1
Lemonade Local LLM server tuned for AMD NPUs and GPUs First bid €3 → #1
LibreChat Open-source AI chat platform First bid €3 → #1
LibreTranslate Self-hosted open-source machine translation API powered by Argos Translate First bid €3 → #1
LlamaEdge Run LLMs across devices on a Wasm runtime First bid €3 → #1
LobeChat Open-source chat UI supporting many model providers, plugins, and self-hosting First bid €3 → #1
LocalAI OpenAI-compatible local inference API First bid €3 → #1
MLC LLM Run LLMs natively on any device First bid €3 → #1
MLX (Apple) ML framework for Apple silicon First bid €3 → #1
Marker Converts PDFs and office documents to Markdown, JSON, and HTML using layout and OCR models First bid €3 → #1
Marvin Pythonic framework for agentic AI First bid €3 → #1
MetaGPT Multi-agent framework: AI software company First bid €3 → #1
MinerU Open-source PDF extraction tool that turns documents into LLM-ready Markdown and JSON First bid €3 → #1
MiniCPM-V OpenBMB's open multimodal model series for efficient on-device image, video, and text understanding First bid €3 → #1
Mirascope Python toolkit for LLM applications First bid €3 → #1
Modular MAX and Mojo — AI compute platform First bid €3 → #1
Moondream Tiny open vision language model First bid €3 → #1
Msty Local-first AI chat app First bid €3 → #1
NVIDIA NeMo NVIDIA's open-source framework for training, customizing, and deploying generative AI and speech models First bid €3 → #1
Nexa AI On-device multimodal inference First bid €3 → #1
NextChat Open-source cross-platform chat UI for multiple LLM providers First bid €3 → #1
ONNX Runtime Cross-platform ML inference accelerator First bid €3 → #1
Ollama Run LLMs locally First bid €3 → #1
Open Climate Fix Open-source ML for solar forecasting and grid decarbonization First bid €3 → #1
Open WebUI Self-hosted AI interface First bid €3 → #1
Open-Sora Open-source text-to-video generation model and pipeline First bid €3 → #1
OpenLIT Open-source AI engineering observability First bid €3 → #1
OpenLLM Run open-source LLMs as OpenAI-compatible API endpoints First bid €3 → #1
OpenManus Open-source framework for building general AI agents First bid €3 → #1
OpenVINO Intel open-source toolkit for optimizing and running AI inference on CPUs and edge First bid €3 → #1
Opentrons Open-source lab robots for pipetting and automation First bid €3 → #1
Oumi Open-source platform for training, evaluating, and deploying foundation models First bid €3 → #1
Outlines Structured LLM generation First bid €3 → #1
PEFT (Hugging Face) Hugging Face library for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of LLMs with LoRA, QLoRA, and related methods First bid €3 → #1
PaddleOCR Open-source multilingual OCR toolkit First bid €3 → #1
Page Assist Browser extension sidebar for chatting with local AI models First bid €3 → #1
ParadeDB Postgres for search and analytics First bid €3 → #1
Phi (Microsoft) Microsoft's family of small language models with MIT-licensed open weights First bid €3 → #1
Pinokio One-click local AI installer First bid €3 → #1
Piper Fast local neural text-to-speech system First bid €3 → #1
PyGPT Open-source desktop AI assistant First bid €3 → #1
PyTorch Open-source deep learning framework First bid €3 → #1
RWKV Attention-free RNN language model architecture with open-weight models and linear-time inference First bid €3 → #1
RamaLama Run AI models via containers First bid €3 → #1
Rasa Open framework for conversational AI First bid €3 → #1
Reor Local AI note app with private RAG First bid €3 → #1
Rerun Open-source visualization for robotics and multimodal data First bid €3 → #1
SAM 2 Meta's open model for promptable image and video segmentation First bid €3 → #1
SGLang Fast open-source LLM serving engine First bid €3 → #1
STORM Stanford's open-source system that researches topics into cited reports First bid €3 → #1
Screenpipe Open-source local screen recording for AI context First bid €3 → #1
Sentence Transformers Python framework for training and running embedding and reranker models for semantic search First bid €3 → #1
SillyTavern Open-source frontend for chatting and roleplay with local and API LLMs First bid €3 → #1
SmolLM (Hugging Face) Hugging Face's family of compact open-weight language and vision models for on-device use First bid €3 → #1
Sourcebot Open-source code search and ask First bid €3 → #1
Spark-TTS Open-source LLM-based TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning First bid €3 → #1
Stable Diffusion WebUI Local diffusion image UI First bid €3 → #1
SwarmUI Modular open-source web UI for image and video diffusion models with a ComfyUI backend First bid €3 → #1
TII Falcon Open Falcon model family First bid €3 → #1
Text Generation Inference Hugging Face toolkit for serving LLMs in production First bid €3 → #1
Text Generation WebUI Gradio UI for local LLMs First bid €3 → #1
Transformer Lab Open-source workspace to download, tune, and chat with LLMs locally First bid €3 → #1
Transformers (Hugging Face) The model-definition library First bid €3 → #1
Transformers.js Run Hugging Face models in the browser First bid €3 → #1
Triton Inference Server NVIDIA's open-source inference server for serving models from any framework on GPU or CPU First bid €3 → #1
Typesense Open-source search with vectors First bid €3 → #1
USearch Compact vector search engine library for many languages First bid €3 → #1
Unsloth Fast fine-tuning of open models First bid €3 → #1
Upscayl Free open-source AI image upscaler First bid €3 → #1
Vanna AI Open-source text-to-SQL agent First bid €3 → #1
Verba (Weaviate) Open-source RAG chatbot by Weaviate First bid €3 → #1
Vosk Offline speech recognition for 20+ languages First bid €3 → #1
Wave Terminal Open-source terminal with AI built in First bid €3 → #1
WebLLM In-browser LLM inference via WebGPU First bid €3 → #1
WhisperKit On-device Whisper speech recognition for Apple platforms First bid €3 → #1
WhisperX Whisper ASR with word timestamps and diarization First bid €3 → #1
Wren AI Open-source GenBI agent First bid €3 → #1
Zylon (PrivateGPT) Private AI workspace on-prem First bid €3 → #1
big-AGI Open-source multi-model AI chat suite First bid €3 → #1
bitsandbytes 8-bit and 4-bit quantization for PyTorch First bid €3 → #1
comma.ai Maker of openpilot, open-source driver-assistance that runs on consumer hardware First bid €3 → #1
exo Run models across your own devices First bid €3 → #1
faster-whisper Whisper inference reimplemented on CTranslate2 First bid €3 → #1
ggml Tensor library behind llama.cpp First bid €3 → #1
gpt-oss (OpenAI) OpenAI's Apache-2.0 open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, for local and self-hosted use First bid €3 → #1
kagent Open framework for running AI agents in Kubernetes First bid €3 → #1
llama-swap Proxy that hot-swaps llama.cpp models on demand First bid €3 → #1
llama.cpp LLM inference in C/C++ First bid €3 → #1
llamafile (Mozilla) Distribute LLMs as one file First bid €3 → #1
lm-evaluation-harness EleutherAI's framework for few-shot evaluation of language models across hundreds of benchmark tasks First bid €3 → #1
marimo Reactive Python notebooks with AI First bid €3 → #1
mistral.rs Cross-platform LLM inference engine in Rust First bid €3 → #1
ncnn Tencent's mobile neural net inference framework First bid €3 → #1
oterm Terminal chat client for Ollama with tool support First bid €3 → #1
pgai Adds embedding and LLM workflows to PostgreSQL First bid €3 → #1
smolagents Minimal library for code-acting AI agents First bid €3 → #1
spaCy Industrial-strength open-source NLP library for Python with pretrained pipelines for many languages First bid €3 → #1
sqlite-vec SQLite extension for storing and querying vectors First bid €3 → #1
tinygrad Minimalist deep learning framework First bid €3 → #1
txtai Open-source embeddings database and RAG First bid €3 → #1
whisper.cpp Local Whisper speech-to-text in C/C++ First bid €3 → #1