Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/leon-ai/leon/vs/mudler/LocalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/leon-ai/leon/vs/mudler/LocalAI.md
Description: leon and LocalAI share 7 technologies: React, Vite, SQLite, Hugging Face, transformers, faster-whisper, and yaml. leon is written in TypeScript and LocalAI in Go.

# leon vs LocalAI

leon and LocalAI share 7 technologies: React, Vite, SQLite, Hugging Face, transformers, faster-whisper, and yaml. leon is written in TypeScript and LocalAI in Go.

- [leon-ai/leon](https://seerepo.com/r/leon-ai/leon): 🧠 Leon is your open-source personal assistant.
- [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: React, Vite, SQLite, Hugging Face, transformers, faster-whisper, yaml
- Only in leon: @tanstack/react-router, Fastify, @fontsource/jetbrains-mono, @ark-ui/react, @tanstack/react-virtual, @pierre/highlights, cli-spinner, remixicon, jose, ai-sdk, node-llama-cpp, ai, g2p-en, OpenRouter, beautifulsoup4, shiki, @sinclair/typebox, Ajv, ajv-formats
- Only in LocalAI: net/http, Echo, pyarrow, s3, NATS.io, Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, MCP, OpenAI, anyio, FastAPI, Lightning, uvicorn, Tokio, react-router-dom, Gradio, matplotlib, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2, github.com/nats-io/nkeys, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, 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, diffusers, mlx, opencv-python, insightface, mlx-lm, torchaudio, vLLM, librosa, onnxruntime, sglang, datasets, 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, Docker, 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, Prometheus, tracing-subscriber, fontsource-variable, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, dompurify, highlight.js, marked

## Side by side

| | leon | LocalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 225,418 lines written, 800 code files | 1,389,292 lines written, 2,979 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 3.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 3,130 commits, 17,646 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 9,317 commits, 50,214 stars |
| Tests | 182 test files. 26.4% 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, leon or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 1,389,292 lines written; leon has 225,418.

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

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

LocalAI, with 50,214 stars; leon has 17,646.

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

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

LocalAI, with 2,911 test files; leon has 182.

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

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

leon: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and LocalAI's on November 5, 2026.

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

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

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

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

## Sources

- leon-ai/leon: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit f5795bd (https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/f5795bd79ef946933603b4b47b27225912278df6)
- 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.