Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/chroma-core/chroma/vs/mudler/LocalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/chroma-core/chroma/vs/mudler/LocalAI.md
Description: chroma and LocalAI share 19 technologies: FastAPI, s3, Postgres, SQLite, Tokio, uvicorn, OpenAI, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, tokenizers, onnxruntime, tracing, OpenTelemetry, tracing-subscriber, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, and Hugging Face. chroma is written in Rust and LocalAI in Go.

# chroma vs LocalAI

chroma and LocalAI share 19 technologies: FastAPI, s3, Postgres, SQLite, Tokio, uvicorn, OpenAI, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, tokenizers, onnxruntime, tracing, OpenTelemetry, tracing-subscriber, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, and Hugging Face. chroma is written in Rust and LocalAI in Go.

- [chroma-core/chroma](https://seerepo.com/r/chroma-core/chroma): Search infrastructure for AI
- [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: FastAPI, s3, Postgres, SQLite, Tokio, uvicorn, OpenAI, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, tokenizers, onnxruntime, tracing, OpenTelemetry, tracing-subscriber, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, Hugging Face
- Only in chroma: axum, aws-sdk-s3, pgx, pq, sqlx-postgres, sqlx-sqlite, arrow, sqlx, foyer, object_store, usearch, tower, Rich, Ratatui, crossterm, indicatif, dialoguer, utoipa-swagger-ui, pypika, sea-query, bcrypt, hf-hub, rmcp, parquet, tree-sitter-md, validator, Pydantic, schemars, jsonschema, k8s-openapi, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi, github.com/pingcap/log, go.uber.org/zap, tracing-opentelemetry, github.com/rs/zerolog, google-cloud-googleapis, boto3, go.opentelemetry.io/otel, go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/otelaws, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace, kube, kubernetes, opentelemetry-otlp, psutil, @xenova/transformers, cohere-ai, ollama, Ajv, together-ai
- Only in LocalAI: React, net/http, Echo, pyarrow, NATS.io, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, MCP, anyio, Lightning, react-router-dom, Vite, Gradio, matplotlib, 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, sglang, datasets, faster-whisper, funasr, kokoro, mlx-audio, optimum, peft, QWen, rerankers, safetensors, sentence-transformers, 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, Docker, github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus, Prometheus, fontsource-variable, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, yaml, dompurify, highlight.js, marked

## Side by side

| | chroma | LocalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 474,465 lines written, 886 code files | 1,389,292 lines written, 2,979 code files |
| Who writes it | 1.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and Sweep | 3.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 7, 2026, 4,542 commits, 29,650 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 9,317 commits, 50,214 stars |
| Tests | 345 test files. 31% 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, chroma or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 1,389,292 lines written; chroma has 474,465.

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

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

LocalAI, with 50,214 stars; chroma has 29,650.

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

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

LocalAI, with 2,911 test files; chroma has 345.

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

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

chroma: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and LocalAI's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [chroma-core/chroma's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/commits)

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

LocalAI: an AI signed 3.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in chroma, 1.5%.

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

## Sources

- chroma-core/chroma: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 1a3ac2c (https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/tree/1a3ac2c7c623adbd03ed2508dc27b98cdf26016d)
- 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.