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Sonar vs Aphrodite Engine: catalog facts
Sonar	Aphrodite Engine
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free to download and run yourself.
macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	Linux, Self-hosted
OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users	OpenAI-compatible API Built for high-throughput serving
Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name	Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop use Repository has moved to a new name, dphnAI/sonar
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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