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The best tools for running LLMs locally in 2026

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Sep 11, 2026
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Runtimes, servers and desktop apps for running models on your own hardware — quantisation, inference engines and offline-first assistants.

Mostly written in Python, C++, TypeScript, Go and JavaScript.

How this list is ranked. By total GitHub stars at the last daily refresh — a popularity signal, not a measure of quality, fit or safety. Star counts in the AI category are known to be inflated by fake-star campaigns, so each row leads with push activity and license instead. No commit in this collection has completed security review yet, so treat every entry as unreviewed discovery metadata.
  1. 1nicedreamzapp organisation mark

    claude-code-local

    nicedreamzapp/claude-code-local

    Run Claude Code 100% on-device with local AI on Apple Silicon. MLX-native Anthropic-API server. 6 fighters incl. Muse-Glimmer 30B (now multimodal — reads images, abliterated), Gemma 4 31B, Qwen 3.5 122B (65 tok/s), DeepSeek V4 Flash (1M ctx). Private, offline, airgap-ready. Built for NDA / legal / healthcare workflows.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicensePythonDeveloper tools3.4k+61
  2. 2microsoft organisation mark

    foundry-local

    microsoft/foundry-local

    No description provided by the repository owner.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherC++Apps2.6k+9
  3. 3

    local-studio

    sybil-solutions/local-studio

    Control panel for VLLM, Sglang, llama.cpp, exllamav3

    Pushed 8 days ago.Apache License 2.0TypeScriptApps1.8k+3
  4. 4janhq organisation mark

    jan

    janhq/jan

    Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptApps45.4k+258
  5. 5khoj-ai organisation mark

    khoj

    khoj-ai/khojSlowing

    Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

    Last push 3 months ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonAgents38.0k+124
  6. 6off-grid-ai organisation mark

    OGAM

    off-grid-ai/OGAM

    The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, see, speak, and generate images on your phone or Mac — GGUF LLMs, vision, Whisper speech-to-text, Stable Diffusion, tool calling, and local-network servers. Runs on your CPU, GPU, or NPU. No account, no API key, zero data leaves your device.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseTypeScriptDeveloper tools3.3k+34
  7. 7n8n-io organisation mark

    n8n

    n8n-io/n8n

    Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptPlugins209.4k+701
  8. 8ollama organisation mark

    ollama

    ollama/ollama

    Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseGoApps185.8k+818
  9. 9open-webui organisation mark

    open-webui

    open-webui/open-webui

    User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

    Pushed yesterday.OtherPythonApps157.6k+727
  10. 10vllm-project organisation mark

    vllm

    vllm-project/vllm

    A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonDeveloper tools96.2k+542
  11. 11unslothai organisation mark

    unsloth

    unslothai/unsloth

    Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonApps79.0k+386
  12. 12hiyouga organisation mark

    LlamaFactory

    hiyouga/LlamaFactory

    Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonDeveloper tools75.9k+126
  13. 13Mintplex-Labs organisation mark

    anything-llm

    Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

    Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseJavaScriptAgents67.9k+266
  14. 14ClickHouse organisation mark

    ClickHouse

    ClickHouse/ClickHouse

    ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0C++Developer tools50.7k+99
  15. 15mudler organisation mark

    LocalAI

    mudler/LocalAI

    LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseGoDeveloper tools50.2k+162
  16. 16HKUDS organisation mark

    nanobot

    HKUDS/nanobot

    Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicensePythonApps49.8k+318
  17. 17siyuan-note organisation mark

    siyuan

    siyuan-note/siyuan

    An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间,让人与智能体在此协作

    Pushed yesterday.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0TypeScriptApps47.1k+89
  18. 18AstrBotDevs organisation mark

    AstrBot

    AstrBotDevs/AstrBot

    AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

    Pushed yesterday.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonDeveloper tools45.8k+1.7k
  19. 19reactive-resume organisation mark

    app

    reactive-resume/app

    A one-of-a-kind resume builder that keeps your privacy in mind. Completely secure, customizable, portable, open-source and free forever. Try it out today!

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseTypeScriptPlugins45.3k+340
  20. 20chatboxai organisation mark

    chatbox

    chatboxai/chatbox

    Powerful AI Client

    Pushed 6 days ago.GNU General Public License v3.0TypeScriptApps42.2k+85
  21. 21lyogavin organisation mark

    airllm

    lyogavin/airllm

    AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0Jupyter NotebookDeveloper tools41.7k+735
  22. 22photoprism organisation mark

    photoprism

    photoprism/photoprism

    AI-Powered Photos App 🌈💎✨

    Pushed yesterday.OtherGoApps40.4k+34
  23. 23chatchat-space organisation mark

    Langchain-Chatchat

    chatchat-space/Langchain-ChatchatSlowing

    Langchain-Chatchat(原Langchain-ChatGLM)基于 Langchain 与 ChatGLM, Qwen 与 Llama 等语言模型的 RAG 与 Agent 应用 | Langchain-Chatchat (formerly langchain-ChatGLM), local knowledge based LLM (like ChatGLM, Qwen and Llama) RAG and Agent app with langchain

    Last push 12 months ago.Apache License 2.0PythonApps38.7k+4
  24. 24AlexsJones organisation mark

    llmfit

    AlexsJones/llmfit

    Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseRustApps38.6k+185
  25. 25sgl-project organisation mark

    sglang

    sgl-project/sglang

    SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonDeveloper tools38.4k+151
  26. 26Dokploy organisation mark

    dokploy

    Dokploy/dokploy

    Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptUI / Frontend38.2k+145
  27. 27agentscope-ai organisation mark

    QwenPaw

    agentscope-ai/QwenPaw

    Your Personal AI Assistant; easy to install, deploy on your own machine or on the cloud; supports multiple chat apps with easily extensible capabilities.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonAgents37.3k+749
  28. 28langfuse organisation mark

    langfuse

    langfuse/langfuse

    🪢 Open source agent evals & observability: Trace, evaluate, and improve LLM applications with one open platform.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptAgents36.9k+365
  29. 29Tencent organisation mark

    WeKnora

    Tencent/WeKnora

    Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, and a self-maintaining Wiki.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherGoPlugins36.4k+740
  30. 30onyx-dot-app organisation mark

    onyx

    onyx-dot-app/onyx

    Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM

    Pushed yesterday.OtherPythonApps33.2k+155
  31. 31Zackriya-Solutions organisation mark

    meetily

    Zackriya-Solutions/meetily

    Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseRustApps32.4k+181
  32. 32yamadashy organisation mark

    repomix

    yamadashy/repomix

    📦 Repomix is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Gemini, Gemma, Llama, Grok, and more.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseTypeScriptApps29.1k+91
  33. 33mozilla-ai organisation mark

    llamafile

    mozilla-ai/llamafile

    Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherC++Apps26.6k+57
  34. 34nocobase organisation mark

    nocobase

    nocobase/nocobase

    NocoBase is an open-source AI + no-code platform for building business systems fast. Instead of generating everything from scratch, AI works on top of production-proven infrastructure and a WYSIWYG no-code interface, so you get both speed and reliability.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptPlugins24.8k+90
  35. 351Panel-dev organisation mark

    MaxKB

    1Panel-dev/MaxKB

    🔥 MaxKB is an open-source platform for building enterprise-grade agents. 强大易用的开源企业级智能体平台。

    Pushed yesterday.GNU General Public License v3.0PythonPlugins23.1k+56
  36. 36screenpipe organisation mark

    screenpipe

    screenpipe/screenpipe

    YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Record your screen continuously locally and provide context to your agents (Claude, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, Runner...)

    Pushed yesterday.OtherRustAgents22.2k+128
  37. 37dyad-sh organisation mark

    dyad

    dyad-sh/dyad

    Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it!

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptApps22.2k+91
  38. 38lidge-jun organisation mark

    opencodex

    lidge-jun/opencodex

    Universal provider proxy for OpenAI Codex & Claude Code — use any LLM (Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama…) with Codex CLI, App, SDK, and Claude Code

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseTypeScriptApps18.2k+227
  39. 390xJacky organisation mark

    nginx-ui

    0xJacky/nginx-ui

    Yet another WebUI for Nginx

    Pushed yesterday.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0GoPlugins11.7k+62
  40. 40EKKOLearnAI organisation mark

    hermes-studio

    EKKOLearnAI/hermes-studio

    Ekko Studio is a local-first AI workspace for multi-agent chat, coding, and visual workflows, available on desktop and the web.

    Pushed yesterday.OtherTypeScriptUI / Frontend11.7k+90

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