Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/moby/buildkit/vs/mudler/LocalAI
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/moby/buildkit/vs/mudler/LocalAI.md
Description: 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.

# 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.

- [moby/buildkit](https://seerepo.com/r/moby/buildkit): concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
- [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: 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, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus
- 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/containerd/stargz-snapshotter, github.com/containernetworking/plugins, github.com/prometheus/client_golang, go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/jaeger
- 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, tracing-subscriber, fontsource-variable, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, yaml, dompurify, highlight.js, marked

## Side by side

| | buildkit | LocalAI |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 223,276 lines written, 672 code files | 1,553,487 lines written, 3,372 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor | 6% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 12, 2026, 6,140 commits, 10,418 stars | Last push November 13, 2026, 9,855 commits, 50,345 stars |
| Tests | 361 test files. 53.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 3,400 test files. 62.5% 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, buildkit or LocalAI?

LocalAI, with 1,553,487 lines written; buildkit has 223,276.

The proof: [mudler/LocalAI's code at commit affff71](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/affff715ba90b1975b0540e049f332fc77b4f2c0)

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

LocalAI, with 50,345 stars; buildkit has 10,418.

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

### 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](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/affff715ba90b1975b0540e049f332fc77b4f2c0)

### 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](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/commits)

### 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%.

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

## Sources

- moby/buildkit: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit d667ec0 (https://github.com/moby/buildkit/tree/d667ec05a024e65a79bd07c8c241adddaf30f550)
- mudler/LocalAI: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit affff71 (https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/affff715ba90b1975b0540e049f332fc77b4f2c0)

## 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.