LocalAI vs microduck
LocalAI and microduck share 9 technologies: Hugging Face, FastAPI, uvicorn, Tokio, Gradio, av, jinja2, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. LocalAI is written in Go and microduck in Rust.
What they share and what sets them apart
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 10, 2026, at commit 638bb56What is LocalAI built with?Only in LocalAI
- React
- net/http
- Echo
- go-sqlite3
- modernc.org/sqlite
pyarrow
- s3
- SQLite
- NATS.io
- Postgres
- github.com/glebarez/sqlite
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go
github.com/valkey-io/valkey-go/mock
- MCP
- Qdrant
OpenAI- anyio
- Lightning
react-router-dom
- Vite
- Hono
matplotlib
- fyne.io/fyne/v2
- github.com/schollz/progressbar/v3
- gorm.io/gorm
- github.com/emersion/go-sasl
- 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
- 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
sglang
- compel
- datasets
- faster-qwen3-tts
- faster-whisper
funasr
github.com/go-skynet/go-llama.cpp
- github.com/mudler/go-piper
- github.com/otiai10/openaigo
- github.com/streamer45/silero-vad-go
inference
- kokoro
- mlx-audio
moonshine-voice
- Ollama
optimum
- optimum-quanto
- outetts
peft
- pocket-tts
- QWen
- qwen-tts
- rerankers
safetensors
sentence-transformers
speechbrain
- tinygrad
tokenizers
trl
voxcpm
- whisperx
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
github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday
- github.com/russross/blackfriday
imageio
imageio-ffmpeg
- github.com/google/jsonschema-go
loguru
- github.com/mudler/xlog
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric
- OpenTelemetry
- github.com/mudler/go-processmanager
- containerd
- Docker
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config
github.com/ipfs/go-log
- github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric
- Prometheus
fontsource-variable
- CodeMirror
- @lezer/highlight
yaml
- dompurify
highlight.js
marked
In common
pollen-robotics
microduck
A Tiny biped duck robot 🦆
Rust13.6kRead on November 9, 2026, at commit da34a22What is microduck built with?Only in microduck
Side by side
LocalAImicroduck
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
LocalAI1,517,084 lines written3,281 code files
microduck157,955 lines written206 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
microduck25.8% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and Codex
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
LocalAILast push November 10, 20269,704 commits50,282 stars
microduckLast push November 9, 20261,081 commits13,619 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
microduck19 test files1.5% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, LocalAI or microduck?
LocalAI, with 1,517,084 lines written; microduck has 157,955.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56
Which has more GitHub stars, LocalAI or microduck?
LocalAI, with 50,282 stars; microduck has 13,619.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI on GitHub
Which has more tests, LocalAI or microduck?
LocalAI, with 3,264 test files; microduck has 19.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's code at commit 638bb56
Which was updated more recently, LocalAI or microduck?
LocalAI: its last push was on November 10, 2026, and microduck's on November 9, 2026.
The proof: mudler/LocalAI's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, LocalAI or microduck?
microduck: an AI signed 25.8% of its commits, with Claude Code and Codex; in LocalAI, 5.7%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in pollen-robotics/microduck
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