dex vs LocalAI
dex and LocalAI share 7 technologies: net/http, go-sqlite3, SQLite, Postgres, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, and Prometheus. Both are written in Go.
What they share and what sets them apart
dexidp
dex
OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
Go11.3kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit 80ef16fWhat is dex built with?Only in dex
- Gorilla
- pq
- MySQL
- etcd
- OpenBao
- entgo.io/ent
- github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4
github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3
github.com/go-webauthn/webauthn
- github.com/jcmturner/gokrb5/v8
- github.com/pquerna/otp
- github.com/russellhaering/goxmldsig
- github.com/beevik/etree
- github.com/mattermost/xml-roundtrip-validator
- cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata
- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus
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
- Echo
- modernc.org/sqlite
pyarrow
s3
- NATS.io
- github.com/glebarez/sqlite
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go
- MCP
- Hugging Face
- Qdrant
OpenAI- anyio
- FastAPI
- Lightning
uvicorn
- Tokio
react-router-dom
- Vite
- Hono
- Gradio
matplotlib
- fyne.io/fyne/v2
- github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3
- gorm.io/gorm
- github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2
- github.com/emersion/go-sasl
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials
- 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
- torch
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
- QWen
sglang
- compel
- datasets
- 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
- optimum-quanto
- outetts
peft
- pocket-tts
- rerankers
safetensors
sentence-transformers
speechbrain
- tinygrad
tokenizers
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
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
tracing-subscriber
fontsource-variable
- CodeMirror
- @lezer/highlight
yaml
- dompurify
highlight.js
marked
Side by side
dexLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
dex78,450 lines written216 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.
dex0.4% of its commits signed by AIWith GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex
LocalAI6% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
dexLast push November 12, 20262,846 commits11,252 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.
dex106 test files52.8% 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, dex or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,553,487 lines written; dex has 78,450.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which has more GitHub stars, dex or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,345 stars; dex has 11,252.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, dex or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 3,400 test files; dex has 106.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which was updated more recently, dex or LocalAI?
LocalAI: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and dex's on November 12, 2026.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, dex or LocalAI?
LocalAI: an AI signed 6% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in dex, 0.4%.
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