LocalAI
by Open Source
OpenAI API-compatible local inference
FreeCompletely free to use with no credit card required.AdvancedWeb
Good for local AI
Free-plan details
Completely free and open-source (MIT)
Meet the toolThe Launchpad take
Verdict
High-throughput LLM serving engine
High-performance LLM serving; production inference; PagedAttention for throughput; batch processing
Best for
ML engineersplatform teamscompanies serving LLMs at scaleGPU server operators
Quick facts
- Free tier
- Completely free and open-source (Apache 2.0)
- Starting price
- Free
- Platforms
- local
- Company
- Open Source (UC Berkeley)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | None (hardware-limited; designed for GPU servers) |
Key capabilities
Works with
- Text
- embeddings
Outputs
- OpenAI-compatible API responses
- batch outputs
Get it
How to use vLLM on phones and tablets.
- Mobile web: Works in a mobile browser (responsive or dedicated mobile site).
Technical details
- Offline
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Languages
- Multilingual (depends on model)
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Privacy
- High
- Time to productivity
- 2 hours
- Upgrade when
- N/A (fully free)
- Integrations
- OpenAI-compatible API, Hugging Face models, Ray (distributed), Kubernetes
more
LangChain, major frameworks