crush vs LocalAI
crush and LocalAI share 5 technologies: net/http, SQLite, MCP, golang.org/x/oauth2, and Model Context Protocol. Both are written in Go.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
charmbracelet
crush
Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘
Go29kRead on November 8, 2026, at commit 8f1f029What is crush built with?Only in crush
- github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3
github.com/pressly/goose/v3
PostHog- charm.land/lipgloss/v2
- charm.land/bubbletea/v2
- charm.land/bubbles/v2
github.com/charmbracelet/ultraviolet
- charm.land/glamour/v2
- github.com/gen2brain/beeep
github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown
- github.com/disintegration/imaging
- github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery
github.com/invopop/jsonschema
- gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2
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.
Go50.2kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit efc6f93What is LocalAI built with?Only in LocalAI
- React
- Echo
pyarrow
s3
- NATS.io
- 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
github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3
accelerate
- bitsandbytes
- conformer
- coqui-tts
- einops
- flash-attn
llama-cpp-python
- llvmlite
- 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
- Prometheus
fontsource-variable
- CodeMirror
- @lezer/highlight
yaml
- dompurify
highlight.js
marked
Side by side
crushLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
crush200,570 lines written464 code files
LocalAI1,389,292 lines written2,979 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.
crush6.9% of its commits signed by AIWith Crush, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot
LocalAI3.7% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
crushLast push November 8, 20264,177 commits28,993 stars
LocalAILast push November 5, 20269,317 commits50,214 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
crush433 test files80.4% of its code files have a test that imports them
LocalAI2,911 test files60.8% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, crush or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,389,292 lines written; crush has 200,570.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit efc6f93
Which has more GitHub stars, crush or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,214 stars; crush has 28,993.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, crush or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 2,911 test files; crush has 433.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit efc6f93
Which was updated more recently, crush or LocalAI?
crush: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and LocalAI's on November 5, 2026.
The proof: charmbracelet/crush's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, crush or LocalAI?
crush: an AI signed 6.9% of its commits, with Crush, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot; in LocalAI, 3.7%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in charmbracelet/crush
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