LLMs-local

list of awesome platforms, tools, and resources run for LLMs locally

Table of Contents

• Inference platforms
• Inference engines
• User Interfaces
• Large Language Models
  • Explorers, Benchmarks, Leaderboards
  • Model providers
  • Specific models
    • General purpose
    • Coding
    • Multimodal
    • Image
    • Audio
    • Miscellaneous
• Tools
  • Models
  • Agent Frameworks
  • Model Context Protocol
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Coding Agents
  • Computer Use
  • Browser Automation
  • Memory Management
  • Testing, Evaluation, and Observability
  • Research
  • Training and Fine-tuning
  • Miscellaneous
• Hardware
• Tutorials
  • Models
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Context Engineering
  • Inference
  • Agents
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Miscellaneous
• Communities

Inference platforms

• LM Studio - discover, download and run local LLMs
• jan - an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer
• LocalAI - the free, open-source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others
• ChatBox - user-friendly desktop client app for AI models/LLMs
• lemonade - a local LLM server with GPU and NPU Acceleration

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Inference engines

• ollama - get up and running with LLMs
• llama.cpp - LLM inference in C/C++
• vllm - a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
• exo - run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices
• BitNet - official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
• sglang - a fast serving framework for large language models and vision language models
• Nano-vLLM - a lightweight vLLM implementation built from scratch
• koboldcpp - run GGUF models easily with a KoboldAI UI
• gpustack - simple, scalable AI model deployment on GPU clusters
• mlx-lm - generate text and fine-tune large language models on Apple silicon with MLX
• distributed-llama - connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference
• ik_llama.cpp - llama.cpp fork with additional SOTA quants and improved performance
• FastFlowLM - run LLMs on AMD Ryzen™ AI NPUs
• vllm-gfx906 - vLLM for AMD gfx906 GPUs, e.g. Radeon VII / MI50 / MI60
• llm-scaler - run LLMs on Intel Arc™ Pro B60 GPUs

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User Interfaces

• Open WebUI - User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
• Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern design AI chat framework
• Text generation web UI - LLM UI with advanced features, easy setup, and multiple backend support
• SillyTavern - LLM Frontend for Power Users
• Page Assist - Use your locally running AI models to assist you in your web browsing

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Large Language Models

Explorers, Benchmarks, Leaderboards

• AI Models & API Providers Analysis - understand the AI landscape to choose the best model and provider for your use case
• LLM Explorer - explore list of the open-source LLM models
• Dubesor LLM Benchmark table - small-scale manual performance comparison benchmark
• oobabooga benchmark - a list sorted by size (on disk) for each score

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Model providers

• Qwen - powered by Alibaba Cloud
• Mistral AI - a pioneering French artificial intelligence startup
• Tencent - a profile of a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate and holding company
• Unsloth AI - focusing on making AI more accessible to everyone (GGUFs etc.)
• bartowski - providing GGUF versions of popular LLMs
• Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence - a private non-profit organization engaged in AI research and development
• Open Thoughts - a team of researchers and engineers curating the best open reasoning datasets

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Specific models

General purpose

• DiffusionGemma-26B-A4B-it - Google's new diffusion-based multimodal LLM (dropped June 10, 2026). 26B MoE, 1,100+ tokens/sec, runs quantized on consumer hardware.

• MiniMax M3 - Frontier open-weights model with 1M context, native multimodality, and top-tier coding/agentic performance (June 2026).

• DeepSeek-V4 - Latest DeepSeek series (V4-Pro & Flash) excellent long-context reasoning and coding (late May 2026).

• Kimi-K2.6 - Moonshot AI's latest agent-oriented long-context model (May/June 2026).

• Qwen3-Next - a collection of the latest generation Qwen LLMs

• Gemma 3 - a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models from Google, built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models

• gpt-oss - a collection of open-weight models from OpenAI, designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases

• Ministral 3 - a collection of edge models, with base, instruct and reasoning variants, in 3 different sizes: 3B, 8B and 14B, all with vision capabilities

• GLM-4.5 - a collection of hybrid reasoning models designed for intelligent agents

• Hunyuan - a collection of Tencent's open-source efficient LLMs designed for versatile deployment across diverse computational environments

• Phi-4-mini-instruct - a lightweight open model built upon synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites

• NVIDIA Nemotron v3 - a family of open models from NVIDIA with open weights, training data and recipes, delivering leading efficiency and accuracy for building specialized AI agents

• Llama Nemotron - a collection of open, production-ready enterprise models from NVIDIA

• OpenReasoning-Nemotron - a collection of models from NVIDIA, trained on 5M reasoning traces for math, code and science

• Granite 4.0 - a collection of lightweight, state-of-the-art open foundation models from IBM that natively support multilingual capabilities, a wide range of coding tasks—including fill-in-the-middle (FIM) code completion—retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool usage and structured JSON output

• EXAONE-4.0 - a collection of LLMs from LG AI Research, integrating non-reasoning and reasoning modes

• ERNIE 4.5 - a collection of large-scale multimodal models from Baidu

• Seed-OSS - a collection of LLMs developed by ByteDance's Seed Team, designed for powerful long-context, reasoning, agent and general capabilities, and versatile developer-friendly features

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Coding

• Qwen3-Coder - a collection of the Qwen's most agentic code models to date
• Devstral 2 - a couple of agentic LLMs for software engineering tasks, excelling at using tools to explore codebases, edit multiple files, and power SWE Agents
• Mellum-4b-base - an LLM from JetBrains, optimized for code-related tasks
• OlympicCoder-32B - a code model that achieves very strong performance on competitive coding benchmarks such as LiveCodeBench and the 2024 International Olympiad in Informatics
• NextCoder - a family of code-editing LLMs developed using the Qwen2.5-Coder Instruct variants as base

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Multimodal

• Qwen3-Omni - a collection of the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models from Qwen

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Image

• Qwen-Image - an image generation foundation model in the Qwen series that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing
• Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 - the image editing version of Qwen-Image extending the base model's unique text rendering capabilities to image editing tasks, enabling precise text editing
• Qwen3-VL - a collection of the most powerful vision-language models in the Qwen series to date
• GLM-4.5V - a VLLM based on ZhipuAI’s next-generation flagship text foundation model GLM-4.5-Air
• HunyuanImage-2.1 - an efficient diffusion model for high-resolution (2K) text-to-image generation​
• FastVLM - a collection of VLMs with efficient vision encoding from Apple
• MiniCPM-V-4_5 - a GPT-4o Level MLLM for single image, multi image and high-FPS video understanding on your phone
• LFM2-VL - a colection of vision-language models, designed for on-device deployment
• ClipTagger-12b - a vision-language model (VLM) designed for video understanding at massive scale

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Audio

• Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 - an enhancement of Mistral Small 3, incorporating state-of-the-art audio input capabilities while retaining best-in-class text performance
• chatterbox - first production-grade open-source TTS model
• VibeVoice - a collection of frontier text-to-speech models from Microsoft
• canary-1b-v2 - a multitask speech transcription and translation model from NVIDIA
• parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 - a multilingual speech-to-text model from NVIDIA
• Kitten TTS - a collection of open-source realistic text-to-speech models designed for lightweight deployment and high-quality voice synthesis

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Miscellaneous

• Jan-v1-4B - the first release in the Jan Family, designed for agentic reasoning and problem-solving within the Jan App
• Jan-nano - a compact 4-billion parameter language model specifically designed and trained for deep research tasks
• Jan-nano-128k - an enhanced version of Jan-nano features a native 128k context window that enables deeper, more comprehensive research capabilities without the performance degradation typically associated with context extension method
• Arch-Router-1.5B - the fastest LLM router model that aligns to subjective usage preferences
• gpt-oss-safeguard - a collection of safety reasoning models built-upon gpt-oss
• Qwen3Guard - a collection of safety moderation models built upon Qwen3
• HunyuanWorld-1 - an open-source 3D world generation model
• Hunyuan-GameCraft-1.0 - a novel framework for high-dynamic interactive video generation in game environments

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Tools

Models

• unsloth - fine-tuning & reinforcement learning for LLMs
• outlines - structured outputs for LLMs
• heretic - fully automatic censorship removal for language models
• llama-swap - reliable model swapping for any local OpenAI compatible server - llama.cpp, vllm, etc.

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Agent Frameworks

• AutoGPT - a powerful platform that allows you to create, deploy, and manage continuous AI agents that automate complex workflows
• langflow - a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows
• langchain - build context-aware reasoning applications
• autogen - a programming framework for agentic AI
• anything-llm - the all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, No-code agent builder, MCP compatibility, and more
• Flowise - build AI agents, visually
• llama_index - the leading framework for building LLM-powered agents over your data
• crewAI - a framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents
• agno - a full-stack framework for building Multi-Agent Systems with memory, knowledge and reasoning
• sim - open-source platform to build and deploy AI agent workflows
• openai-agents-python - a lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows
• SuperAGI - an open-source framework to build, manage and run useful Autonomous AI Agents
• camel - the first and the best multi-agent framework
• pydantic-ai - a Python agent framework designed to help you quickly, confidently, and painlessly build production grade applications and workflows with Generative AI
• txtai - all-in-one open-source AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows
• agent-framework - a framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET
• archgw - a high-performance proxy server that handles the low-level work in building agents: like applying guardrails, routing prompts to the right agent, and unifying access to LLMs, etc.
• ClaraVerse - privacy-first, fully local AI workspace with Ollama LLM chat, tool calling, agent builder, Stable Diffusion, and embedded n8n-style automation
• ragbits - building blocks for rapid development of GenAI applications

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Model Context Protocol

• mindsdb - federated query engine for AI - the only MCP Server you'll ever need
• github-mcp-server - GitHub's official MCP Server
• playwright-mcp - Playwright MCP server
• chrome-devtools-mcp - Chrome DevTools for coding agents
• n8n-mcp - a MCP for Claude Desktop / Claude Code / Windsurf / Cursor to build n8n workflows for you
• awslabs/mcp - AWS MCP Servers — helping you get the most out of AWS, wherever you use MCP
• mcp-atlassian - MCP server for Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira)

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• pathway - Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines and RAG
• graphrag - a modular graph-based RAG system
• LightRAG - simple and fast RAG
• haystack - AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications, best suited for building RAG, question answering, semantic search or conversational agent chatbots
• vanna - an open-source Python RAG framework for SQL generation and related functionality
• graphiti - build real-time knowledge graphs for AI Agents
• onyx - the AI platform connected to your company's docs, apps, and people
• claude-context - make entire codebase the context for any coding agent
• pipeshub-ai - a fully extensible and explainable workplace AI platform for enterprise search and workflow automation

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Coding Agents

• zed - a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI
• OpenHands - a platform for software development agents powered by AI
• cline - autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way
• aider - AI pair programming in your terminal
• opencode - a AI coding agent built for the terminal
• tabby - an open-source GitHub Copilot alternative, set up your own LLM-powered code completion server
• continue - create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks
• void - an open-source Cursor alternative, use AI agents on your codebase, checkpoint and visualize changes, and bring any model or host locally
• goose - an open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
• Roo-Code - a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor
• crush - the glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
• kilocode - open source AI coding assistant for planning, building, and fixing code
• humanlayer - the best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases
• ProxyAI - the leading open-source AI copilot for JetBrains

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Computer Use

• open-interpreter - a natural language interface for computers
• OmniParser - a simple screen parsing tool towards pure vision based GUI agent
• cua - the Docker Container for Computer-Use AI Agents
• self-operating-computer - a framework to enable multimodal models to operate a computer
• Agent-S - an open agentic framework that uses computers like a human

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Browser Automation

• puppeteer - a JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox
• playwright - a framework for Web Testing and Automation
• browser-use - make websites accessible for AI agents
• firecrawl - turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data
• stagehand - the AI Browser Automation Framework
• nanobrowser - open-source Chrome extension for AI-powered web automation

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Memory Management

• mem0 - universal memory layer for AI Agents
• letta - the stateful agents framework with memory, reasoning, and context management
• supermemory - memory engine and app that is extremely fast, scalable
• cognee - memory for AI Agents in 5 lines of code
• LMCache - supercharge your LLM with the fastest KV Cache Layer
• memU - an open-source memory framework for AI companions
• Hindsight - state-of-the-art long-term memory for AI agents by Vectorize, fully open-source and self-hostable

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Testing, Evaluation, and Observability

• langfuse - an open-source LLM engineering platform: LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more
• opik - debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards
• openllmetry - an open-source observability for your LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry
• garak - the LLM vulnerability scanner from NVIDIA
• giskard - an open-source evaluation & testing for AI & LLM systems
• agenta - an open-source LLMOps platform: prompt playground, prompt management, LLM evaluation, and LLM observability all in one place

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Research

• Perplexica - an open-source alternative to Perplexity AI, the AI-powered search engine
• gpt-researcher - an LLM based autonomous agent that conducts deep local and web research on any topic and generates a long report with citations
• SurfSense - an open-source alternative to NotebookLM / Perplexity / Glean
• open-notebook - an open-source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
• RD-Agent - automate the most critical and valuable aspects of the industrial R&D process
• local-deep-researcher - fully local web research and report writing assistant
• local-deep-research - an AI-powered research assistant for deep, iterative research
• maestro - an AI-powered research application designed to streamline complex research tasks

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Training and Fine-tuning

• OpenRLHF - an easy-to-use, high-performance open-source RLHF framework built on Ray, vLLM, ZeRO-3 and HuggingFace Transformers, designed to make RLHF training simple and accessible
• Kiln - the easiest tool for fine-tuning LLM models, synthetic data generation, and collaborating on datasets
• augmentoolkit - train an open-source LLM on new facts

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Miscellaneous

• context7 - up-to-date code documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
• cai - Cybersecurity AI (CAI), the framework for AI Security
• speakr - a personal, self-hosted web application designed for transcribing audio recordings
• presenton - an open-source AI presentation generator and API
• OmniGen2 - exploration to advanced multimodal generation
• 4o-ghibli-at-home - a powerful, self-hosted AI photo stylizer built for performance and privacy
• Observer - local open-source micro-agents that observe, log and react, all while keeping your data private and secure
• mobile-use - a powerful, open-source AI agent that controls your Android or IOS device using natural language
• gabber - build AI applications that can see, hear, and speak using your screens, microphones, and cameras as inputs
• promptcat - a zero-dependency prompt manager/catalog/library in a single HTML file

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Hardware

• Alex Ziskind - tests of pcs, laptops, gpus etc. capable of running LLMs
• Digital Spaceport - reviews of various builds designed for LLM inference
• JetsonHacks - information about developing on NVIDIA Jetson Development Kits
• Miyconst - tests of various types of hardware capable of running LLMs
• Kolosal - LLM Memory calculator - estimate the RAM requirements of any GGUF model instantly
• LLM Inference VRAM & GPU Requirement Calculator - calculate how many GPUs you need to deploy LLMs
• ZLUDA - CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPUs

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Tutorials

Models

• Let's reproduce GPT-2 (124M)
• nanochat - a full-stack implementation of an LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal, hackable, dependency-lite codebase, designed to run on a single 8XH100 node via scripts like speedrun.sh, that run the entire pipeline start to end
• Knowledge Distillation: How LLMs train each other
• gguf-docs - Docs for GGUF quantization (unofficial)

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Prompt Engineering

• Prompt Engineering Guide - guides, papers, lecture, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering
• Prompt Engineering by NirDiamant - a comprehensive collection of tutorials and implementations for Prompt Engineering techniques, ranging from fundamental concepts to advanced strategies
• Prompting guide 101 - a quick-start handbook for effective prompts by Google
• Prompt Engineering by Google - prompt engineering by Google
• Prompt Engineering by Anthropic - prompt engineering by Anthropic
• Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial - Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial by Anthropic
• Real world prompting - real world prompting tutorial by Anthropic
• Prompt evaluations - prompt evaluations course by Anthropic
• system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-tools - a collection of system prompts extracted from AI tools
• system_prompts_leaks - a collection of extracted System Prompts from popular chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini
• Prompt from Codex - Prompt used to steer behavior of OpenAI's Codex

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Context Engineering

• Context-Engineering - a frontier, first-principles handbook inspired by Karpathy and 3Blue1Brown for moving beyond prompt engineering to the wider discipline of context design, orchestration, and optimization
• Awesome-Context-Engineering - a comprehensive survey on Context Engineering: from prompt engineering to production-grade AI systems

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Inference

• vLLM Production Stack - vLLM’s reference system for K8S-native cluster-wide deployment with community-driven performance optimization

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Agents

• GenAI Agents - tutorials and implementations for various Generative AI Agent techniques
• 500+ AI Agent Projects - a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries
• 12-Factor Agents - principles for building reliable LLM applications
• Agents towards production - end-to-end, code-first tutorials covering every layer of production-grade GenAI agents, guiding you from spark to scale with proven patterns and reusable blueprints for real-world launches
• LLM Agents & Ecosystem Handbook - one-stop handbook for building, deploying, and understanding LLM agents with 60+ skeletons, tutorials, ecosystem guides, and evaluation tools
• 601 real-world gen AI use cases - 601 real-world gen AI use cases from the world's leading organizations by Google
• A practical guide to building agents - a practical guide to building agents by OpenAI

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• Pathway AI Pipelines - ready-to-run cloud templates for RAG, AI pipelines, and enterprise search with live data
• RAG Techniques - various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
• Controllable RAG Agent - an advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution for complex question answering that uses sophisticated graph based algorithm to handle the tasks
• LangChain RAG Cookbook - a collection of modular RAG techniques, implemented in LangChain + Python

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Miscellaneous

• Self-hosted AI coding that just works

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