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Text Embeddings InferenceSonar
Free

Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.

 Free

Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

macOS, Linux, Self-hosted macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
  • Supports many popular embedding and reranker model families
  • Small Docker images with fast startup
  • OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls
  • Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users
  • Serves embedding and classification models only, not text generation
  • Set up as a server, so it suits developers rather than casual users
  • Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat
  • Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 26, 2026

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