Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/benbjohnson/litestream/vs/mudler/LocalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/benbjohnson/litestream/vs/mudler/LocalAI.md
Description: litestream and LocalAI share 9 technologies: net/http, s3, SQLite, NATS.io, MCP, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, Prometheus, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config. Both are written in Go.

# litestream vs LocalAI

litestream and LocalAI share 9 technologies: net/http, s3, SQLite, NATS.io, MCP, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, Prometheus, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, and github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config. Both are written in Go.

- [benbjohnson/litestream](https://seerepo.com/r/benbjohnson/litestream): Streaming replication for SQLite.
- [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: net/http, s3, SQLite, NATS.io, MCP, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, Prometheus, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config
- Only in litestream: go-sqlite3, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob, github.com/studio-b12/gowebdav, HashiCorp, Alibaba Cloud, Google, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity, mcp-go, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore, github.com/lmittmann/tint
- Only in LocalAI: React, Echo, pyarrow, Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, Hugging Face, OpenAI, anyio, FastAPI, Lightning, uvicorn, Tokio, react-router-dom, Vite, Gradio, matplotlib, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2, github.com/nats-io/nkeys, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, accelerate, bitsandbytes, conformer, coqui-tts, einops, flash-attn, llama-cpp-python, llvmlite, Model Context Protocol, ModelScope, ONNX, onnxruntime-gpu, openai-go, phonemizer, s3tokenizer, scikit-image, sentencepiece, spacy-pkuseg, tiktoken, torchao, torchvision, vector-quantize-pytorch, torch, transformers, diffusers, mlx, opencv-python, insightface, mlx-lm, torchaudio, vLLM, librosa, onnxruntime, sglang, datasets, faster-whisper, funasr, kokoro, mlx-audio, optimum, peft, QWen, rerankers, safetensors, sentence-transformers, tokenizers, trl, whisperx, av, sox, torchcodec, github.com/go-audio/wav, pillow, github.com/charmbracelet/glamour, github.com/dhowden/tag, github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday, golang.org/x/image, imageio, imageio-ffmpeg, jinja2, loguru, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, OpenTelemetry, Docker, tracing, github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, tracing-subscriber, fontsource-variable, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, yaml, dompurify, highlight.js, marked

## Side by side

| | litestream | LocalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 82,896 lines written, 57 code files | 1,389,292 lines written, 2,979 code files |
| Who writes it | 30.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 3.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 712 commits, 14,589 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 9,317 commits, 50,214 stars |
| Tests | 100 test files. 78.9% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,911 test files. 60.8% 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, litestream or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 1,389,292 lines written; litestream has 82,896.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI's code at commit efc6f93](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/efc6f9373ffd35c87cf45e334cdbf7f5f19076f6)

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

LocalAI, with 50,214 stars; litestream has 14,589.

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

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

LocalAI, with 2,911 test files; litestream has 100.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI's code at commit efc6f93](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/efc6f9373ffd35c87cf45e334cdbf7f5f19076f6)

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

litestream: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and LocalAI's on November 5, 2026.

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

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

litestream: an AI signed 30.5% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in LocalAI, 3.7%.

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

## Sources

- benbjohnson/litestream: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit ae54416 (https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/tree/ae54416a488918243d86271565d311085a75e757)
- mudler/LocalAI: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit efc6f93 (https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/efc6f9373ffd35c87cf45e334cdbf7f5f19076f6)

## 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.