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Sonar vs Text Embeddings Inference: catalog facts
Sonar	Text Embeddings Inference
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users	Supports many popular embedding and reranker model families Small Docker images with fast startup
Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name	Serves embedding and classification models only, not text generation Set up as a server, so it suits developers rather than casual users
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: Apache-2.0
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 2, 2026

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