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Sonar vs Xinference: catalog facts
Sonar	Xinference
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source.
macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users	Serves language, speech and multimodal models from one place API designed as a drop-in replacement for GPT calls
Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name	Aimed at developers rather than casual users Requires setup and suitable hardware for larger models
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
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 23, 2026

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