Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/mudler/LocalAI/vs/tobi/qmd
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/mudler/LocalAI/vs/tobi/qmd.md
Description: LocalAI and qmd share 11 technologies: SQLite, MCP, Hugging Face, accelerate, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, datasets, peft, trl, and yaml. LocalAI is written in Go and qmd in TypeScript.

# LocalAI vs qmd

LocalAI and qmd share 11 technologies: SQLite, MCP, Hugging Face, accelerate, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, datasets, peft, trl, and yaml. LocalAI is written in Go and qmd in TypeScript.

- [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.
- [tobi/qmd](https://seerepo.com/r/tobi/qmd): mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: SQLite, MCP, Hugging Face, accelerate, sentencepiece, torch, transformers, datasets, peft, trl, yaml
- Only in LocalAI: React, net/http, Echo, pyarrow, s3, NATS.io, Postgres, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, OpenAI, anyio, FastAPI, Lightning, uvicorn, Tokio, react-router-dom, Vite, 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, bitsandbytes, conformer, coqui-tts, einops, flash-attn, llama-cpp-python, llvmlite, Model Context Protocol, ModelScope, ONNX, onnxruntime-gpu, openai-go, phonemizer, s3tokenizer, scikit-image, spacy-pkuseg, tiktoken, torchao, torchvision, vector-quantize-pytorch, diffusers, mlx, opencv-python, insightface, mlx-lm, torchaudio, vLLM, librosa, onnxruntime, sglang, faster-whisper, funasr, kokoro, mlx-audio, optimum, QWen, rerankers, safetensors, sentence-transformers, tokenizers, 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
- Only in qmd: sqlite-vec, gguf, node-llama-cpp, trackio, Pydantic, Zod

## Side by side

| | LocalAI | qmd |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,389,292 lines written, 2,979 code files | 62,234 lines written, 49 code files |
| Who writes it | 3.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor | 27.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Warp, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 9,317 commits, 50,214 stars | Last push October 15, 2026, 639 commits, 30,946 stars |
| Tests | 2,911 test files. 60.8% of its code files have a test that imports them | 69 test files. 42.9% 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, LocalAI or qmd?

LocalAI, with 1,389,292 lines written; qmd has 62,234.

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

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

LocalAI, with 50,214 stars; qmd has 30,946.

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

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

LocalAI, with 2,911 test files; qmd has 69.

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

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

LocalAI: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and qmd's on October 15, 2026.

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

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

qmd: an AI signed 27.2% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Warp, and GitHub Copilot; in LocalAI, 3.7%.

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

## Sources

- mudler/LocalAI: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit efc6f93 (https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/tree/efc6f9373ffd35c87cf45e334cdbf7f5f19076f6)
- tobi/qmd: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 86d2365 (https://github.com/tobi/qmd/tree/86d2365d17fc682e491c2c53d1e4a884aee8682a)

## 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.