gorse vs LocalAI
gorse and LocalAI share 8 technologies: modernc.org/sqlite, SQLite, Postgres, Qdrant, gorm.io/gorm, go-openai, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry. Both are written in Go.
What they share and what sets them apart
gorse-io
gorse
AI powered open source recommender system engine supports classical/LLM rankers and multimodal content via embedding
Go9.9kRead on November 14, 2026, at commit 67f67acWhat is gorse built with?Only in gorse
- go-redis
- go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver
- pq
- redisotel
- MySQL
- github.com/XSAM/otelsql
- MongoDB
github.com/weaviate/weaviate
- Milvus
- Redis
- github.com/emicklei/go-restful-openapi/v2
- github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/otelmongo
- go.uber.org/zap
In common
- modernc.org/sqlite
- SQLite
- Postgres
- Qdrant
- gorm.io/gorm
- go-openai
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
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
pyarrow
s3
- NATS.io
- github.com/glebarez/sqlite
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go
- MCP
- Hugging Face
OpenAI- anyio
- FastAPI
- Lightning
uvicorn
- Tokio
react-router-dom
- Vite
- Hono
- Gradio
matplotlib
- fyne.io/fyne/v2
- github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3
- 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
accelerate
- bitsandbytes
- conformer
- coqui-tts
- einops
- flash-attn
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
- 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
gorseLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
gorse55,944 lines written71 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.
gorse0.7% of its commits signed by AIWith GitHub Copilot
LocalAI6% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
gorseLast push November 12, 20261,452 commits9,923 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.
gorse128 test files90.1% 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, gorse or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,553,487 lines written; gorse has 55,944.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which has more GitHub stars, gorse or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,345 stars; gorse has 9,923.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, gorse or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 3,400 test files; gorse has 128.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which was updated more recently, gorse or LocalAI?
LocalAI: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and gorse's on November 12, 2026.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, gorse or LocalAI?
LocalAI: an AI signed 6% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in gorse, 0.7%.
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