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Sonar vs NVIDIA Triton Inference Server: catalog facts
Sonar	NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source.
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	Serves models from many ML frameworks in one server Runs on GPUs and CPUs, in the cloud or at the edge
Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name	Aimed at infrastructure teams rather than individual desktop users Setup and tuning take real effort
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
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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