Ollama
One command to download and run a language model on your own machine. The easiest honest answer to "how do I do this without a cloud".
- Self-hosted
- Allowed
- No GPU needed
A genuinely Apache-licensed 12B model that fits on an ordinary desktop card, and the base for a lot of small roleplay fine-tunes.
The sweet spot for people without a 24 GB card: quantised it runs on 8 GB, it holds a long conversation, and the licence is a real open-source licence with no acceptable-use appendix.
This combination is why so many of the community's mid-sized roleplay fine-tunes are built on it rather than on Llama.
One command to download and run a language model on your own machine. The easiest honest answer to "how do I do this without a cloud".
An open-source desktop assistant that runs models locally by default and can be pointed at a hosted one when you choose.
A single-file local model server built for storytelling and roleplay, with the sampler controls that community actually uses.
A desktop app for finding, downloading and chatting with local language models. Free, closed source, and the gentlest way in.
One API key for a great many hosted models, including ones with looser content policies than their originals.
The "AUTOMATIC1111 of language models": one interface, many backends, an extension for everything.
The C++ engine most local language model software is built on. Runs large models on ordinary hardware, including with no GPU at all.
A serious inference server for serving a model to many people at once. Not a chatbot — the thing a chatbot runs on.