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SonarLocalAI
Free

Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

 Free

The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…

macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line Linux, macOS, Self-hosted
  • OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls
  • Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users
  • Offers compatible APIs for several common AI services.
  • Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat
  • Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name
  • You must supply model files and enough resources to run them.
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: AGPL-3.0 License: MIT
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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