higress vs LocalAI
higress and LocalAI share 8 technologies: net/http, Postgres, SQLite, MCP, OpenAI, gorm.io/gorm, openai-go, and Prometheus. Both are written in Go.
What they share and what sets them apart
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higress
🤖 AI Gateway | AI Native API Gateway
Go9.8kRead on November 14, 2026, at commit 0316bc9What is higress built with?Only in higress
- Redis
- Milvus
- MySQL
- Consul
- sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime
- github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2
github.com/manifoldco/promptui
- gorm.io/driver/clickhouse
- hmac-sha256
mcp-go
- sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api-inference-extension
- github.com/pkoukk/tiktoken-go
- jieba-rs
github.com/antchfx/xmlquery
- github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v5
github.com/invopop/jsonschema
- sigs.k8s.io/gateway-api
- Knative
- Helm
github.com/compose-spec/compose-go
github.com/distribution/distribution/v3
- github.com/docker/compose/v2
- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-prometheus
- go.uber.org/zap
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
- go-sqlite3
- modernc.org/sqlite
pyarrow
s3
- NATS.io
- github.com/glebarez/sqlite
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go
- Hugging Face
- Qdrant
- 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
- go-openai
llama-cpp-python
- llvmlite
- Model Context Protocol
- ModelScope
- nemo-toolkit
- neucodec
- NVIDIA
- oneccl-bind-pt
- ONNX
- onnxruntime-gpu
- 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
higressLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
higress349,215 lines written617 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.
higress1% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and Cursor
LocalAI6% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
higressLast push November 13, 20262,019 commits9,766 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.
higress509 test files50.1% 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, higress or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,553,487 lines written; higress has 349,215.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which has more GitHub stars, higress or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,345 stars; higress has 9,766.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, higress or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 3,400 test files; higress has 509.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which was updated more recently, higress or LocalAI?
Both got their last push on November 13, 2026.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, higress or LocalAI?
LocalAI: an AI signed 6% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in higress, 1%.
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