buildkit vs LocalAI
buildkit and LocalAI share 9 technologies: net/http, s3, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, containerd, OpenTelemetry, github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus. Both are written in Go.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
moby
buildkit
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
Go10.4kRead on November 13, 2026, at commit d667ec0What is buildkit built with?Only in buildkit
- etcd
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/transfermanager
- github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2
- github.com/containerd/console
- github.com/morikuni/aec
- github.com/tonistiigi/vt100
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity
- github.com/tonistiigi/go-csvvalue
- github.com/sirupsen/logrus
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc
github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/estargz
- github.com/containerd/accelerated-container-image
- github.com/containerd/nydus-snapshotter
github.com/containerd/go-runc
github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore
github.com/containerd/fuse-overlayfs-snapshotter/v2
github.com/containernetworking/plugins
- github.com/prometheus/client_golang
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/jaeger
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
- SQLite
- NATS.io
- Postgres
- 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
- golang.org/x/oauth2
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
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
- Docker
tracing
github.com/ipfs/go-log
- Prometheus
fontsource-variable
- CodeMirror
- @lezer/highlight
yaml
- dompurify
highlight.js
marked
Side by side
buildkitLocalAI
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
buildkit223,276 lines written672 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.
buildkit0.2% of its commits signed by AIWith Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, 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.
buildkitLast push November 12, 20266,140 commits10,418 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.
buildkit361 test files53.7% 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, buildkit or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 1,553,487 lines written; buildkit has 223,276.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which has more GitHub stars, buildkit or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 50,345 stars; buildkit has 10,418.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, buildkit or LocalAI?
LocalAI, with 3,400 test files; buildkit has 361.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71
Which was updated more recently, buildkit or LocalAI?
LocalAI: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and buildkit's on November 12, 2026.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, buildkit or LocalAI?
LocalAI: an AI signed 6% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in buildkit, 0.2%.
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