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Sonar vs OpenLLM: catalog facts
Sonar	OpenLLM
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence; BentoCloud hosting is a separate…
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	One command starts an OpenAI-compatible server Wide catalogue of open models, plus custom model repositories
Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name	Many models require large GPUs Aimed at developers rather than desktop users
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is 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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