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LocalAI is the free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. LocalAI act as a drop-in replacement REST API that's compatible with OpenAI (Elevenlabs, Anthropic... ) API specifications for local AI inferencing. It allows you to run LLMs, generate images, audio (and not only) locally or on-prem with consumer grade hardware, supporting multiple model families. Does not require GPU. It is created and maintained by Ettore Di Giacinto.

📚🆕 Local Stack Family

🆕 LocalAI is now part of a comprehensive suite of AI tools designed to work together:

	LocalAGI A powerful Local AI agent management platform that serves as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI's Responses API, enhanced with advanced agentic capabilities.
	LocalRecall A REST-ful API and knowledge base management system that provides persistent memory and storage capabilities for AI agents.

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Talk Interface	Generate Audio

Models Overview	Generate Images

Chat Interface	Home

Login	Swarm

💻 Quickstart

Run the installer script:

# Basic installation
curl https://localai.io/install.sh | sh

For more installation options, see Installer Options.

Or run with docker:

CPU only image:

docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest

NVIDIA GPU Images:

# CUDA 12.0
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12

# CUDA 11.7
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-11

# NVIDIA Jetson (L4T) ARM64
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64

AMD GPU Images (ROCm):

docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add=video localai/localai:latest-gpu-hipblas

Intel GPU Images (oneAPI):

docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/dri/card1 --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel

Vulkan GPU Images:

docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-gpu-vulkan

AIO Images (pre-downloaded models):

# CPU version
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-aio-cpu

# NVIDIA CUDA 12 version
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-aio-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12

# NVIDIA CUDA 11 version
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-aio-gpu-nvidia-cuda-11

# Intel GPU version
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-aio-gpu-intel

# AMD GPU version
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add=video localai/localai:latest-aio-gpu-hipblas

For more information about the AIO images and pre-downloaded models, see Container Documentation.

To load models:

# From the model gallery (see available models with `local-ai models list`, in the WebUI from the model tab, or visiting https://models.localai.io)
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# Start LocalAI with the phi-2 model directly from huggingface
local-ai run huggingface://TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF/phi-2.Q8_0.gguf
# Install and run a model from the Ollama OCI registry
local-ai run ollama://gemma:2b
# Run a model from a configuration file
local-ai run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/.../phi-2.yaml
# Install and run a model from a standard OCI registry (e.g., Docker Hub)
local-ai run oci://localai/phi-2:latest

⚡ Automatic Backend Detection: When you install models from the gallery or YAML files, LocalAI automatically detects your system's GPU capabilities (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) and downloads the appropriate backend. For advanced configuration options, see GPU Acceleration.

For more information, see 💻 Getting started

📰 Latest project news

• July/August 2025: 🔍 Object Detection added to the API featuring rf-detr
• July 2025: All backends migrated outside of the main binary. LocalAI is now more lightweight, small, and automatically downloads the required backend to run the model. Read the release notes
• June 2025: Backend management has been added. Attention: extras images are going to be deprecated from the next release! Read the backend management PR.
• May 2025: Audio input and Reranking in llama.cpp backend, Realtime API, Support to Gemma, SmollVLM, and more multimodal models (available in the gallery).
• May 2025: Important: image name changes See release
• Apr 2025: Rebrand, WebUI enhancements
• Apr 2025: LocalAGI and LocalRecall join the LocalAI family stack.
• Apr 2025: WebUI overhaul, AIO images updates
• Feb 2025: Backend cleanup, Breaking changes, new backends (kokoro, OutelTTS, faster-whisper), Nvidia L4T images
• Jan 2025: LocalAI model release: https://huggingface.co/mudler/LocalAI-functioncall-phi-4-v0.3, SANA support in diffusers: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/4603
• Dec 2024: stablediffusion.cpp backend (ggml) added ( https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/4289 )
• Nov 2024: Bark.cpp backend added ( https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/4287 )
• Nov 2024: Voice activity detection models (VAD) added to the API: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/4204
• Oct 2024: examples moved to LocalAI-examples
• Aug 2024: 🆕 FLUX-1, P2P Explorer
• July 2024: 🔥🔥 🆕 P2P Dashboard, LocalAI Federated mode and AI Swarms: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/2723. P2P Global community pools: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/issues/3113
• May 2024: 🔥🔥 Decentralized P2P llama.cpp: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/2343 (peer2peer llama.cpp!) 👉 Docs https://localai.io/features/distribute/
• May 2024: 🔥🔥 Distributed inferencing: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/2324
• April 2024: Reranker API: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/2121

Roadmap items: List of issues

🚀 Features

• 🧩 Backend Gallery: Install/remove backends on the fly, powered by OCI images — fully customizable and API-driven.
• 📖 Text generation with GPTs (llama.cpp, transformers, vllm ... 📖 and more)
• 🗣 Text to Audio
• 🔈 Audio to Text (Audio transcription with whisper.cpp)
• 🎨 Image generation
• 🔥 OpenAI-alike tools API
• 🧠 Embeddings generation for vector databases
• ✍️ Constrained grammars
• 🖼️ Download Models directly from Huggingface
• 🥽 Vision API
• 🔍 Object Detection
• 📈 Reranker API
• 🆕🖧 P2P Inferencing
• Agentic capabilities
• 🔊 Voice activity detection (Silero-VAD support)
• 🌍 Integrated WebUI!

🔗 Community and integrations

Build and deploy custom containers:

• https://github.com/sozercan/aikit

WebUIs:

• https://github.com/Jirubizu/localai-admin
• https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI-frontend
• QA-Pilot(An interactive chat project that leverages LocalAI LLMs for rapid understanding and navigation of GitHub code repository) https://github.com/reid41/QA-Pilot

Model galleries

• https://github.com/go-skynet/model-gallery

Other:

• Helm chart https://github.com/go-skynet/helm-charts
• VSCode extension https://github.com/badgooooor/localai-vscode-plugin
• Langchain: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/providers/localai/
• Terminal utility https://github.com/djcopley/ShellOracle
• Local Smart assistant https://github.com/mudler/LocalAGI
• Home Assistant https://github.com/sammcj/homeassistant-localai / https://github.com/drndos/hass-openai-custom-conversation / https://github.com/valentinfrlch/ha-gpt4vision
• Discord bot https://github.com/mudler/LocalAGI/tree/main/examples/discord
• Slack bot https://github.com/mudler/LocalAGI/tree/main/examples/slack
• Shell-Pilot(Interact with LLM using LocalAI models via pure shell scripts on your Linux or MacOS system) https://github.com/reid41/shell-pilot
• Telegram bot https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/master/examples/telegram-bot
• Another Telegram Bot https://github.com/JackBekket/Hellper
• Auto-documentation https://github.com/JackBekket/Reflexia
• Github bot which answer on issues, with code and documentation as context https://github.com/JackBekket/GitHelper
• Github Actions: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/start-localai
• Examples: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/master/examples/

🔗 Resources

• LLM finetuning guide
• How to build locally
• How to install in Kubernetes
• Projects integrating LocalAI
• How tos section (curated by our community)

📖 🎥 Media, Blogs, Social

• Run Visual studio code with LocalAI (SUSE)
• 🆕 Run LocalAI on Jetson Nano Devkit
• Run LocalAI on AWS EKS with Pulumi
• Run LocalAI on AWS
• Create a slackbot for teams and OSS projects that answer to documentation
• LocalAI meets k8sgpt
• Question Answering on Documents locally with LangChain, LocalAI, Chroma, and GPT4All
• Tutorial to use k8sgpt with LocalAI

Citation

If you utilize this repository, data in a downstream project, please consider citing it with:

@misc{localai,
  author = {Ettore Di Giacinto},
  title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}},

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📖 License

LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto.

MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto mudler@localai.io

🙇 Acknowledgements

LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!

• llama.cpp
• https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
• https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
• https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
• https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
• https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
• https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

🤗 Contributors

This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors! 🤗