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      "vendor": "Menlo Research",
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      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Open-source desktop app for running models locally or connecting to cloud models with the user's API keys.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jan.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/janhq/jan",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
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      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The Local API Server takes one optional key set in Settings, empty by default, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-Api-Key`. There are no scopes and no keys per client. It binds to 127.0.0.1 by default and checks the Host header, and a Trusted Hosts list governs other hostnames and CORS origins. In 0.8.4 a 0.0.0.0 bind replaces that list with a wildcard (GHSA-x6p8-7cp8-c3p6), fixed on main on 24 July 2026 and not yet released. `jan serve` takes `--api-key`, empty by default. Cloud provider keys sit in the OS keyring since 0.8.4.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and Apache-2.0, with no account and nothing to buy. Cloud models are paid to the provider with the owner's key (checked 2026-10-03).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janhq/jan/main/src-tauri/static/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "agent.mcp-client"
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        "open-source",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "account-free",
        "openai-compatible",
        "openapi",
        "open-weights",
        "streaming",
        "pre-1.0"
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      "graded": true,
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        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "2026-07-24. GHSA-x6p8-7cp8-c3p6. In 0.8.4, the current release, binding the Local API Server to 0.0.0.0 replaces the Trusted Hosts list with a wildcard, so any Host header is accepted and any Origin reflected with credentials allowed, which with the default empty key lets any web page the owner visits call the server. The fix landed on main on 24 July 2026, no release carries it 71 days later, and the advisory isn't published. It needs a setting the docs flag as risky, -4. https://github.com/janhq/jan/commit/3e1c1e724f696620d89bb4a9cc18a380e0753757"
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        "verdict": "Apache-2.0, with installers for macOS, Windows and Linux plus Flathub and the Microsoft Store. No release since 0.8.4 on 23 July 2026, while a security fix waits on main.",
        "strengths": [
          "Apache-2.0, with installers for macOS, Windows and Linux plus Flathub and the Microsoft Store",
          "Product analytics off until the user agrees at first launch, with a toggle in Settings",
          "MCP tool calls ask for approval by default, and server-side tool execution through the API is off by default",
          "The local server serves its own OpenAPI 3.0 file and a Swagger page",
          "CI on every push to main, with 370 TypeScript test files and 3,377 Rust test functions"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No release since 0.8.4 on 23 July 2026, while a security fix waits on main",
          "One optional API key with no scopes, empty by default",
          "In 0.8.4 a 0.0.0.0 bind ignores Trusted Hosts and reflects any Origin (GHSA-x6p8-7cp8-c3p6)",
          "New Hugging Face downloads go through Menlo's mirror at apps.jan.ai, which neither privacy page mentions",
          "No llms.txt, plain-text error bodies, and the OpenAPI file on the docs site is for the retired Cortex API"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask the owner to start the server (Settings, Local API Server) or run `jan serve`. Nothing listens until then",
          "Call http://127.0.0.1:1337/v1 for the app and localhost:6767/v1 for `jan serve`. The ports differ",
          "Read /openapi.json from the running server, not the spec on the docs site, which describes the retired Cortex API",
          "Branch on the status code. Error bodies are plain text",
          "Keep the bind at 127.0.0.1 on 0.8.4. Trusted Hosts is ignored on 0.0.0.0 until the next release"
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          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
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          "payments": 60,
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          "schema": 56,
          "security": 43,
          "transparency": 66
        },
        "provenanceScore": 72
      },
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        "install": "flatpak install flathub ai.jan.Jan   # or the macOS, Windows and Linux installers at https://jan.ai",
        "http": "curl http://127.0.0.1:1337/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer secret-key-123\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\": \"YOUR_MODEL_ID\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Tell me a joke.\"}]}'",
        "claudeCode": "jan launch claude --model janhq/Jan-code-4b-gguf",
        "headless": {
          "command": "jan serve janhq/Jan-code-4b-gguf --detach"
        }
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/jan"
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      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Menlo Research Pte Ltd",
        "domain": "jan.ai",
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        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://www.jan.ai/docs/desktop/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://www.jan.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
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          "The privacy policy (last updated 16 January 2025) names Menlo Research Pte Ltd, and the repository's LICENSE names Menlo Research.",
          "We found no terms of use on jan.ai or in the docs source.",
          "jan.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security policy on GitHub takes reports through Discord or a Google form.",
          "RDAP for jan.ai gives a registration date of 2017-12-16.",
          "There's no hosted endpoint. The server answers on the owner's machine, at 127.0.0.1:1337 by default."
        ],
        "score": 72
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "jan",
        "versions": [
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            "registry": "github",
            "name": "janhq/jan",
            "version": "v0.8.4",
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://jan.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:56.564394441Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "jan.ai",
          "registered": "2017-12-16",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/jan.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:50.9111837Z"
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        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.jan.ai/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:56.459690049Z",
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          },
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            "url": "https://www.jan.ai/docs/desktop/privacy-policy",
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      "slug": "localai",
      "name": "LocalAI",
      "vendor": "Ettore Di Giacinto and the LocalAI team",
      "vendorUrl": "https://localai.io",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Open-source engine in Go, MIT licensed, that runs models on the owner's hardware behind OpenAI-, Anthropic-, Ollama- and ElevenLabs-compatible APIs on port 8080.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localai",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localai.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localai.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localai.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI",
      "license": "MIT. Each backend image wraps an upstream engine (llama.cpp, vLLM, whisper.cpp, diffusers and others) under that engine's own licence",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "docker.io/localai/localai"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Off by default. With no keys and no user accounts configured, every request is accepted, and the server refuses to start on a public address in that state unless `--allow-insecure-public-bind` is set. `LOCALAI_API_KEY` sets shared keys with full admin rights. `LOCALAI_AUTH=true` turns on user accounts (local, GitHub OAuth or OIDC), and each user creates revocable keys stored as HMAC-SHA256, with an optional expiry in the source, carrying the user's role (admin or user) and per-model and per-feature permissions. Keys go in `Authorization: Bearer`, `x-api-key`, `xi-api-key` or a `token` cookie.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT with nothing to buy. You run it on your own hardware. The project takes sponsorship through GitHub Sponsors.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 42,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 47800,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-03"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mudler/LocalAI/master/swagger/swagger.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "embed.text",
        "rerank",
        "speech.stt",
        "speech.tts",
        "voice.speech-to-speech",
        "image.generate",
        "video.generate",
        "guard.pii",
        "finetune.sft",
        "db.vector"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "local",
        "self-hosted",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "openai-compatible",
        "openapi",
        "mcp",
        "go",
        "docker",
        "streaming",
        "open-weights",
        "no-telemetry"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-02",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 133,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 1,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 71,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 84,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 62,
          "transparency": 47
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-07-07. CVE-2026-59707 (8.6 at NVD under CVSS 3.1, published by VulnCheck), an unauthenticated server-side request forgery through POST /models/apply in v4.3.1 and earlier, reported in issue #10665. The code now refuses private, loopback and metadata addresses in gallery config fetches, with a comment citing the issue, from v4.8.0 at the latest. The project published no GitHub advisory, the fix commit NVD and VulnCheck name (f9b968e) is an unrelated docs change, and SECURITY.md still lists 3.x as the supported series. Fixed, documented only by a third party, -3. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59707; https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/issues/10665"
        ],
        "verdict": "MIT and Go, with Docker images for CUDA 12 and 13, ROCm, Intel oneAPI, Vulkan, Jetson and CPU, Linux binaries and a macOS app. No authentication by default. Loopback, LAN and VPN binds answer every caller, and keys set by environment variable grant full admin.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT and Go, with Docker images for CUDA 12 and 13, ROCm, Intel oneAPI, Vulkan, Jetson and CPU, Linux binaries and a macOS app",
          "OpenAI, Anthropic, Open Responses, Ollama and ElevenLabs-compatible endpoints, with a Swagger 2.0 file of 133 operations served by every instance",
          "429 and 503 responses carry Retry-After, and errors come in the calling client's own envelope",
          "Optional user accounts with hashed, revocable keys, per-model and per-feature permissions and per-user quotas",
          "v4.11.0 on 2 October 2026, ten releases in 90 days, and the Tests workflow passing on master"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No authentication by default. Loopback, LAN and VPN binds answer every caller, and keys set by environment variable grant full admin",
          "CVE-2026-59707, an unauthenticated SSRF in v4.3.1 and earlier, published by VulnCheck in July 2026 with no advisory from the project",
          "SECURITY.md still names 3.x as the supported series, and there's no security.txt or privacy policy",
          "The MCP admin server registers 42 tools against the 19 its docs list, with no annotations, and its writes are held back only by a prompt",
          "No breaking-change section in the release notes, and the unsigned macOS DMG needs its quarantine flag removed by hand"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` when the operator has set keys. A 401 means the instance has auth on",
          "Read /.well-known/localai.json and /api/instructions first. Both answer without a key and list what this instance can do",
          "Back off on 429 and 503 for the Retry-After seconds. A 503 can mean the model is still loading",
          "Start `local-ai mcp-server` with `--read-only` unless the task is to install or delete models",
          "Take model names from /v1/models. Each instance names its own"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 84,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 62,
          "transparency": 67
        },
        "provenanceScore": 27
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\n  \"model\": \"qwen3-4b\",\n  \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]\n}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/localai"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "localai.io",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "No company is named. The `LICENSE` copyright line reads Ettore Di Giacinto, and the README names him as project lead with Richard Palethorpe as maintainer.",
          "We found no terms or privacy page in the docs site's source, and localai.io/.well-known/security.txt and localai.io/llms.txt return 404.",
          "There's no hosted endpoint. Each instance answers on the operator's own host, by default port 8080."
        ],
        "score": 27
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localai.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "localai",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "mudler/LocalAI",
            "version": "v4.11.0",
            "released": "2026-10-02",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:32:02.572449913Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 49385,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://localai.io/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:42.873292356Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "localai.io",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:02.946116654Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:32:02.572449913Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "LocalAI has a score of 68 (B) against Jan's 51.4 (D). Both do local inference. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 33 points."
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  "markdown": "LocalAI has a score of 68 (B) against Jan's 51.4 (D). Both do local inference. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 33 points.\n\n- Jan: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #349 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jan.json\n- LocalAI: grade B, 68/100, rank #133 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/localai.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Jan for transparency \u0026 trust (+22).\n\nPick LocalAI for reliability (+16), schema \u0026 documentation (+25), agent ergonomics (+25), security \u0026 auth (+19), maintenance \u0026 community (+33).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Jan | LocalAI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 84 | LocalAI +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 81 | LocalAI +25 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 71 | LocalAI +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 62 | LocalAI +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 80 | LocalAI +33 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 47 | Jan +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **68 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Jan | LocalAI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Menlo Research | Ettore Di Giacinto and the LocalAI team |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT. Each backend image wraps an upstream engine (llama.cpp, vLLM, whisper.cpp, diffusers and others) under that engine's own licence |\n| Tools exposed | none | 42 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-07-23 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Popularity | 45k stars | 48k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Jan.** Apache-2.0, with installers for macOS, Windows and Linux plus Flathub and the Microsoft Store. No release since 0.8.4 on 23 July 2026, while a security fix waits on main.\n\n**LocalAI.** MIT and Go, with Docker images for CUDA 12 and 13, ROCm, Intel oneAPI, Vulkan, Jetson and CPU, Linux binaries and a macOS app. No authentication by default. Loopback, LAN and VPN binds answer every caller, and keys set by environment variable grant full admin.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Jan\n\n1. Ask the owner to start the server (Settings, Local API Server) or run `jan serve`. Nothing listens until then\n2. Call http://127.0.0.1:1337/v1 for the app and localhost:6767/v1 for `jan serve`. The ports differ\n3. Read /openapi.json from the running server, not the spec on the docs site, which describes the retired Cortex API\n4. Branch on the status code. Error bodies are plain text\n5. Keep the bind at 127.0.0.1 on 0.8.4. Trusted Hosts is ignored on 0.0.0.0 until the next release\n\n### LocalAI\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` when the operator has set keys. A 401 means the instance has auth on\n2. Read /.well-known/localai.json and /api/instructions first. Both answer without a key and list what this instance can do\n3. Back off on 429 and 503 for the Retry-After seconds. A 503 can mean the model is still loading\n4. Start `local-ai mcp-server` with `--read-only` unless the task is to install or delete models\n5. Take model names from /v1/models. Each instance names its own\n\n## Other comparisons with Jan or LocalAI\n\n- [AnythingLLM vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-jan.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localai.md)\n- [GPT4All vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-jan.md)\n- [GPT4All vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-localai.md)\n- [Jan vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-khoj.md)\n- [Jan vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [Jan vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [Jan vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-ollama.md)\n- [Jan vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [Jan vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [Khoj vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-localai.md)\n- [llama.cpp vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-cpp-vs-localai.md)\n- [LM Studio vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-localai.md)\n- [LocalAI vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localai-vs-ollama.md)\n- [LocalAI vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localai-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [LocalAI vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localai-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [Jan vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-underdog.md)\n- [LocalAI vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/localai-vs-underdog.md)\n",
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