LocalAI vs PaddleFormers

LocalAI and PaddleFormers share 9 technologies: Hugging Face, ModelScope, sentencepiece, tiktoken, transformers, librosa, datasets, safetensors, and jinja2. LocalAI is written in Go and PaddleFormers in Python.

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What they share and what sets them apart

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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 10, 2026, at commit 638bb56What is LocalAI built with?

Only in LocalAI

In common

PaddlePaddle

PaddleFormers

PaddleFormers is an easy-to-use library of pre-trained large language model zoo based on PaddlePaddle.

Python13kRead on November 10, 2026, at commit f7fa77fWhat is PaddleFormers built with?

Only in PaddleFormers

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
LocalAI1,517,084 lines written3,281 code files
PaddleFormers374,777 lines written599 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.
LocalAI5.7% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor
PaddleFormers1.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Codex, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
LocalAILast push November 10, 20269,704 commits50,282 stars
PaddleFormersLast push October 21, 20261,425 commits12,969 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
LocalAI3,264 test files61.8% of its code files have a test that imports them
PaddleFormers408 test files45.7% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, LocalAI or PaddleFormers?
LocalAI, with 1,517,084 lines written; PaddleFormers has 374,777.

The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56

Which has more GitHub stars, LocalAI or PaddleFormers?
LocalAI, with 50,282 stars; PaddleFormers has 12,969.

The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub

Which has more tests, LocalAI or PaddleFormers?
LocalAI, with 3,264 test files; PaddleFormers has 408.

The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56

Which was updated more recently, LocalAI or PaddleFormers?
LocalAI: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and PaddleFormers's on October 21, 2026.

The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, LocalAI or PaddleFormers?
LocalAI: an AI signed 5.7% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor; in PaddleFormers, 1.5%.

The proof: the commits each tool signed in mudler/LocalAI

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