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ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving

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C/C++ inference engine for LLMs and vision-language models with GGUF quantized weights, Metal, CUDA, Vulkan and other backends, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible server

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

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Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

MLX

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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Apple's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon, with NumPy-like Python, C++ and Swift APIs and unified CPU/GPU memory

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX LM

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

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Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Ray

Ray project (Anyscale and contributors) · Distributed & parallel computing

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Open-source Python framework for distributing tasks, actors and ML workloads across a cluster, with libraries for data processing, training, tuning, serving and reinforcement learning

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

vLLM

vLLM project (originated at UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab) · Local LLM inference & serving

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High-throughput LLM inference and serving engine with PagedAttention, continuous batching, quantization and an OpenAI-compatible server for GPU and accelerator clusters

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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