Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/juanfont/headscale/vs/mudler/LocalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/juanfont/headscale/vs/mudler/LocalAI.md
Description: headscale and LocalAI share 8 technologies: Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, SQLite, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, golang.org/x/oauth2, Prometheus, and Docker. Both are written in Go.

# headscale vs LocalAI

headscale and LocalAI share 8 technologies: Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, SQLite, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, golang.org/x/oauth2, Prometheus, and Docker. Both are written in Go.

- [juanfont/headscale](https://seerepo.com/r/juanfont/headscale): An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
- [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: Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, SQLite, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, golang.org/x/oauth2, Prometheus, Docker
- Only in headscale: chi, HashiCorp, github.com/tailscale/hujson, github.com/rs/zerolog, github.com/prometheus/common, github.com/libdns/cloudflare, go.uber.org/zap
- Only in LocalAI: React, net/http, Echo, pyarrow, s3, NATS.io, MCP, Hugging Face, OpenAI, anyio, FastAPI, Lightning, uvicorn, Tokio, react-router-dom, Vite, Gradio, matplotlib, github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2, github.com/nats-io/nkeys, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, 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, 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, tracing, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, tracing-subscriber, fontsource-variable, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, yaml, dompurify, highlight.js, marked

## Side by side

| | headscale | LocalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 222,641 lines written, 172 code files | 1,389,292 lines written, 2,979 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and CodeRabbit | 3.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 4,364 commits, 45,413 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 9,317 commits, 50,214 stars |
| Tests | 257 test files. 72.1% 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, headscale or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 1,389,292 lines written; headscale has 222,641.

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

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

LocalAI, with 50,214 stars; headscale has 45,413.

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

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

LocalAI, with 2,911 test files; headscale has 257.

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

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

Both got their last push on November 5, 2026.

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

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

LocalAI: an AI signed 3.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in headscale, 0.3%.

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

## Sources

- juanfont/headscale: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 0bdc332 (https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/tree/0bdc332886b3692b88e0c3623f37c2c07a00d262)
- 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.