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Sonar vs mistral.rs: catalog facts
Sonar	mistral.rs
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users	OpenAI and Anthropic compatible API server Text, image, video and audio input for supported models
Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name	Command-line setup aimed at technical users Performance depends on GPU hardware and backend
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
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 September 26, 2026

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