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About KoboldAI Lite
KoboldAI Lite is a single-page web UI for text generation. It needs no dependencies, installation or setup, and connects to KoboldCpp, the KoboldAI Client, AI Horde, OpenAI and other LLM backends.
It suits people running a local model through KoboldCpp who want a lightweight front end in the browser. It also suits anyone who wants to try models shared on AI Horde without installing anything. A hosted copy is served at lite.koboldai.net, and the source is on GitHub.
Strengths
- No installation or setup needed
- Works with KoboldCpp, AI Horde, OpenAI and other backends
- Actively developed, with over 2,000 commits
Limitations
- Needs a separate backend or service to generate text
- License terms not confirmed in the research
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use in the browser.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- LostRuins
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Best suited for
- A lightweight browser front end for KoboldCpp or AI Horde models
- Categories
- Local AI tools, AI assistants
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Hollama
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LibreChat
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Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
KoboldCpp
A single executable that runs GGUF language models locally, with a web interface and no installation at all.
TextGen
Chat with local language models using the TextGen desktop interface.
TabbyAPI
A lightweight, OpenAI-compatible API server for running ExLlama-format language models on your own hardware.
llama.cpp
The C++ engine most local AI apps are built on, running language models on ordinary hardware.
