Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/Lightning-AI/litgpt/vs/mudler/LocalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/Lightning-AI/litgpt/vs/mudler/LocalAI.md
Description: litgpt and LocalAI share 4 technologies: Lightning, safetensors, torch, and tokenizers. litgpt is written in Python and LocalAI in Go.

# litgpt vs LocalAI

litgpt and LocalAI share 4 technologies: Lightning, safetensors, torch, and tokenizers. litgpt is written in Python and LocalAI in Go.

- [Lightning-AI/litgpt](https://seerepo.com/r/Lightning-AI/litgpt): 20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.
- [mudler/LocalAI](https://seerepo.com/r/mudler/LocalAI): LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Lightning, safetensors, torch, tokenizers
- Only in litgpt: psutil
- Only in LocalAI: React, net/http, Echo, go-sqlite3, modernc.org/sqlite, pyarrow, s3, SQLite, NATS.io, Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go, github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go/mock, MCP, Hugging Face, Qdrant, OpenAI, anyio, FastAPI, uvicorn, Tokio, react-router-dom, Vite, Hono, Gradio, matplotlib, fyne.io/fyne/v2, github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/emersion/go-sasl, github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2, github.com/nats-io/nkeys, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, github.com/timbutler/zxcvbn, accelerate, bitsandbytes, conformer, coqui-tts, einops, flash-attn, go-openai, llama-cpp-python, llvmlite, Model Context Protocol, ModelScope, nemo-toolkit, neucodec, NVIDIA, oneccl-bind-pt, ONNX, onnxruntime-gpu, openai-go, phonemizer, rfdetr, s3tokenizer, scikit-image, sentencepiece, spacy-pkuseg, texterrors, tiktoken, torchao, torchtune, torchvision, vector-quantize-pytorch, github.com/gpustack/gguf-parser-go, github.com/mudler/nib, transformers, diffusers, github.com/mudler/cogito, mlx, github.com/mudler/localrecall, opencv-python, insightface, mlx-lm, torchaudio, vLLM, github.com/yalue/onnxruntime_go, librosa, onnxruntime, sglang, compel, datasets, faster-qwen3-tts, faster-whisper, funasr, github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp, github.com/mudler/go-piper, github.com/otiai10/openaigo, github.com/streamer45/silero-vad-go, inference, kokoro, mlx-audio, moonshine-voice, Ollama, optimum, optimum-quanto, outetts, peft, pocket-tts, QWen, qwen-tts, rerankers, sentence-transformers, speechbrain, tinygrad, trl, voxcpm, whisperx, av, markupsafe, sox, torchcodec, github.com/go-audio/wav, pillow, github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu, github.com/emersion/go-imap/v2, github.com/yuin/goldmark, golang.org/x/image, github.com/charmbracelet/glamour, github.com/dhowden/tag, github.com/emersion/go-smtp, github.com/go-pdf/fpdf, github.com/klippa-app/go-pdfium, github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday, github.com/russross/blackfriday, imageio, imageio-ffmpeg, jinja2, github.com/google/jsonschema-go, loguru, github.com/mudler/xlog, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, OpenTelemetry, github.com/mudler/go-processmanager, containerd, Docker, tracing, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/ipfs/go-log, github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, Prometheus, tracing-subscriber, fontsource-variable, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, yaml, dompurify, highlight.js, marked

## Side by side

| | litgpt | LocalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 33,622 lines written, 64 code files | 1,517,084 lines written, 3,281 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 5.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 1, 2026, 1,499 commits, 13,746 stars | Last push November 10, 2026, 9,704 commits, 50,282 stars |
| Tests | 57 test files. 57.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 3,264 test files. 61.8% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, litgpt or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 1,517,084 lines written; litgpt has 33,622.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/638bb569309dedc78ad4ab787da26dfe2272bc6f)

### Which has more GitHub stars, litgpt or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 50,282 stars; litgpt has 13,746.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI on GitHub](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI)

### Which has more tests, litgpt or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 3,264 test files; litgpt has 57.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/638bb569309dedc78ad4ab787da26dfe2272bc6f)

### Which was updated more recently, litgpt or LocalAI?

LocalAI: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and litgpt's on November 1, 2026.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, litgpt or LocalAI?

LocalAI: an AI signed 5.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in litgpt, 0.3%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in mudler/LocalAI](https://seerepo.com/r/mudler/LocalAI/ai)

## Sources

- Lightning-AI/litgpt: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 4738993 (https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/tree/4738993a5e0190b851162a52173729827d3884e7)
- mudler/LocalAI: Read on November 10, 2026, at commit 638bb56 (https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/638bb569309dedc78ad4ab787da26dfe2272bc6f)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.