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Foundry Local vs QVAC: catalog facts
Foundry Local	QVAC
Free Free to download from Microsoft.	Free Free and open source under Apache-2.0.
Windows, macOS, Command line	Linux
Runs models entirely on the device Hardware-accelerated local inference	Runs models entirely on the local device Covers text, speech, images, OCR and translation
Oriented toward developers building applications Licence terms are not stated in the research used here	Large parts of the project are aimed at developers rather than end users Model performance depends on local hardware
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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