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NVIDIA Triton Inference Server vs Sonar: catalog facts
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server	Sonar
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Linux, Self-hosted	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
Serves models from many ML frameworks in one server Runs on GPUs and CPUs, in the cloud or at the edge	OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users
Aimed at infrastructure teams rather than individual desktop users Setup and tuning take real effort	Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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