OpenCode is an MIT-licensed AI coding agent available through terminal, desktop, and IDE clients. It supports hosted providers and local models. Code handling depends on the selected provider; optional session sharing uploads conversation history to OpenCode's sharing service.
Ollama reduced local model hosting from an afternoon of CUDA troubleshooting to a single pull command. It handles model download, quantisation selection, GPU offloading, and memory management, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost.
Firecrawl handles the unglamorous part of feeding the web to a language model: rendering JavaScript, following pagination, stripping navigation and cookie banners, and returning markdown or structured JSON that a model can actually use.
One chat interface for every model you run or connect
Stars150.5K
Commit10h ago
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Open WebUI is the front end that turns a local inference server into something a household or a team can actually use. It handles accounts, conversation history, document retrieval, and model switching, and speaks to both local runtimes and hosted APIs.
Inference engine that runs LLMs on almost any hardware
Stars126.6K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT
llama.cpp is the layer most local model tooling is built on. It is a C and C++ inference engine with no Python runtime, aggressive quantisation support, and hand-tuned kernels for a remarkably wide range of hardware.
Autonomous agents that complete real engineering tasks
Stars85.8K
Commit8h ago
LicenseMIT
OpenHands runs agents that plan and execute multi-step engineering work: reading a repository, editing files, running tests, and iterating until a task is done. Each agent works inside a sandboxed runtime rather than on the host machine.
LobeChat is the most designed of the open chat front ends. Plugins, an assistant marketplace, voice input and output, and vision support are all present, and the interface holds up next to commercial products.
Desktop AI chat client for cloud and local models in one place
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Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Cherry Studio is a desktop chat client for cloud and local models in one interface. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and stores data on the local machine.
Self-hostable platform for RAG knowledge bases and visual AI workflows
Stars29.8K
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LicenseCustom: FastGPT Open Source License (Apache-2.0-based, added conditions)
FastGPT is a self-hostable platform for RAG knowledge bases and visual AI workflows, combining document processing and retrieval with flow-based app orchestration.
Open-source AI coding agent in the IDE, CLI, and cloud
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LicenseMIT
Kilo is an open-source AI coding agent that works inside VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Visual Studio, with a command-line build and a cloud runner on the way. It reads the existing codebase and carries out engineering tasks from natural-language instructions, proposing file edits, running commands, and verifying its own work.
Open-source RAG assistant that turns docs into chatbots
Stars22.9K
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LicenseGPL-3.0
MaxKB by FIT2CLOUD is an open-source, out-of-the-box RAG assistant that turns documents into a question-answering chatbot with AI workflows and agents. Teams ingest documents and online docs into knowledge bases, connect local or hosted language models, and publish assistants to websites or APIs from a Docker self-hosted deployment.
Local, open-source AI app builder that turns prompts into ownable code
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LicenseApache-2.0 AND FSL-1.1-ALv2
Dyad is a local-first AI app builder that turns natural-language prompts into working web applications, with the generated code stored on your own machine.
Open source coding agent that fixes GitHub issues with LLMs
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LicenseMIT
SWE-agent is an open source coding agent that turns a GitHub issue into a tested fix by letting a language model use shell, editor, and search tools in a sandbox.
Parlant addresses the problem that stops most support agents from shipping: a model that is helpful ninety-five percent of the time is not safe to put in front of customers. It manages behaviour through explicit, context-matched guidelines rather than one long prompt.
Open-source AI gateway routing 200+ providers with fallbacks
Stars13.2K
Commit3mo ago
LicenseMIT
Portkey AI Gateway is an open-source gateway that routes app traffic across 200+ LLM providers with fallbacks, load balancing, caching, and guardrails.
Morphic is an open-source AI search engine that answers questions with complete, cited responses instead of link lists, using Quick and Adaptive search modes in a self-hosted app.
Self-hosted LLM gateway with one OpenAI-compatible API
Stars8,531
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LicenseApache-2.0
Bifrost is a self-hosted gateway that puts every large language model call behind one OpenAI-compatible API. An application points its existing OpenAI client at the gateway, and Bifrost routes the request to whichever provider is configured, so switching models or spreading load across providers is a configuration change rather than a rewrite.
Private AI chat with zero-access encrypted history
Stars5,636
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LicenseGPL-3.0
Proton Lumo is a privacy-first AI chat assistant that stores conversations with zero-access encryption, keeps no logs, and never uses chats to train models.
Private offline AI chat with on-device LLMs for iPhone and Mac
Stars2,267
Commit1y ago
LicenseMIT
Fullmoon is a free app that chats with small open language models running entirely on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with no account and nothing sent to the cloud.
Local-first desktop workspace for coding-agent runtimes
Stars2,097
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT
Synara is a free, open-source, local-first desktop workspace that hosts coding-agent sessions with projects, terminals, diffs, and Git delivery in one app.
Open-source Markdown that mounts interactive apps for LLMs
Stars69
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT
MDMA is an MIT-licensed open-source framework by Mobile Reality that turns LLM Markdown output into interactive applications with forms, tables, and approval gates.
Open-source proxy securing AI API keys in iOS apps with DeviceCheck
Stars8
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Proxed AI is an open-source proxy that keeps AI API keys off iOS devices, checking each request with Apple DeviceCheck while adding rate limits and usage tracking.
Open-source, OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway with cost and latency tracking
Stars2
Commit19d ago
LicenseMIT
LLM Gateway is an open-source gateway that puts OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini calls behind one OpenAI-compatible API. An application keeps its existing OpenAI client and points it at the gateway, so switching providers or spreading load across them is a configuration change rather than a rewrite.
OpenAI's assistant and the interface that set the pattern
CompanyOpenAI
Since2022
PricingFreemium
ChatGPT is the product that made conversational assistants ordinary. Beyond the chat box it now covers file analysis, image generation, web browsing, voice, and custom assistants sharing one account.
Anthropic's assistant, strongest on long documents and code
CompanyAnthropic
Since2023
PricingFreemium
Claude is positioned around careful reasoning over long inputs. The large context window makes whole-repository and long-document work practical in a way that shorter context assistants cannot match.
Cursor forked VS Code rather than extending it, which let it change the editing model itself. Multi-file edits, codebase-wide context, and a tab completion that predicts the next edit rather than the next token are the result.
Copilot put model assisted completion in front of a very large number of developers first, and inline suggestion in the editor remains the interaction most people mean by AI coding.
Desktop application for running language models locally
CompanyElement Labs
Since2023
PricingFree
LM Studio made local models approachable for people who do not want a terminal. Browse a catalogue, download a quantisation that fits the machine, and chat, with hardware requirements explained in plain language.