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Text Embeddings InferenceLocalAI
Free

Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.

 Free

The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…

macOS, Linux, Self-hosted Linux, macOS, Self-hosted
  • Supports many popular embedding and reranker model families
  • Small Docker images with fast startup
  • Offers compatible APIs for several common AI services.
  • Serves embedding and classification models only, not text generation
  • Set up as a server, so it suits developers rather than casual users
  • You must supply model files and enough resources to run them.
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License: MIT
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

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