axolotl vs LocalAI
axolotl and LocalAI share 14 technologies: Hugging Face, Gradio, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, peft, accelerate, torchao, datasets, trl, bitsandbytes, einops, tokenizers, and optimum. axolotl is written in Python and LocalAI in Go.
What they share and what sets them apart
axolotl-ai-cloud
axolotl
Go ahead and axolotl questions
Python12.7kRead on November 10, 2026, at commit cc14b95What is axolotl built with?Only in axolotl
- adlfs
- gcsfs
- s3fs
PostHog
fla-core
flash-linear-attention
- langdetect
lm-eval
- triton
- liger-kernel
kernels
- xformers
evaluate
- mistral-common
trackio
- Pydantic
In common
mudler
LocalAI
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
Go50.3kRead on November 13, 2026, at commit affff71What is LocalAI built with?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
- MCP
- Qdrant
OpenAI- anyio
- FastAPI
- Lightning
uvicorn
- Tokio
react-router-dom
- Vite
- Hono
matplotlib
- fyne.io/fyne/v2
- github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3
- gorm.io/gorm
- github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2
- github.com/emersion/go-sasl
- golang.org/x/oauth2
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials
github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3
- github.com/timbutler/zxcvbn
- conformer
- coqui-tts
- 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
- spacy-pkuseg
- texterrors
- tiktoken
- torchtune
torchvision
- vector-quantize-pytorch
github.com/gpustack/gguf-parser-go
github.com/mudler/nib
diffusers
- github.com/mudler/cogito
mlx
- github.com/mudler/localrecall
opencv-python
insightface
- mlx-lm
torchaudio
- vLLM
- github.com/yalue/onnxruntime_go
librosa
- onnxruntime
- QWen
sglang
- compel
- faster-qwen3-tts
- faster-whisper
funasr
github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
- github.com/mudler/go-piper
- github.com/streamer45/silero-vad-go
inference
- kokoro
- mlx-audio
moonshine-voice
- optimum-quanto
- outetts
- pocket-tts
- rerankers
safetensors
sentence-transformers
speechbrain
- tinygrad
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
imageio
imageio-ffmpeg
- jinja2
- github.com/google/jsonschema-go
loguru
- github.com/mudler/xlog
- 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
- Prometheus
tracing-subscriber
fontsource-variable
- CodeMirror
- @lezer/highlight
yaml
- dompurify
highlight.js
marked
Side by side
axolotlLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
axolotl396,280 lines written830 code files
LocalAI1,553,487 lines written3,372 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
axolotl0.4% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
LocalAI6% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
axolotlLast push November 10, 20262,991 commits12,682 stars
LocalAILast push November 13, 20269,855 commits50,345 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
axolotl815 test files64.6% of its code files have a test that imports them
LocalAI3,400 test files62.5% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, axolotl or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,553,487 lines written; axolotl has 396,280.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which has more GitHub stars, axolotl or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,345 stars; axolotl has 12,682.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, axolotl or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 3,400 test files; axolotl has 815.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which was updated more recently, axolotl or LocalAI?
LocalAI: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and axolotl's on November 10, 2026.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, axolotl or LocalAI?
LocalAI: an AI signed 6% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in axolotl, 0.4%.
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