LocalAI
★ 48.7kA self-hosted alternative to Chatgpt
MIT LicenseOpen Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintDocker · Binary · Package +1No external DB17+ active committers (12mo)
About
LocalAI is an open-source AI engine designed to run a broad range of model types locally, including LLMs, vision, voice, image generation, and video. It is aimed at developers and teams that want an...
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Features
- OpenAI/Anthropic/ElevenLabs API compatibility
- On-demand model backends
- Multi-user API key auth and quotas
- Role-based access
- Built-in AI agents
- RAG
- MCP
- Tool use
- Terminal agent
- Automatic GPU backend detection
Details
- Last Updated
- Aug 26, 2026
- Created
- Mar 18, 2023
- Install Methods
- dockerbinarypackage-managersource
- Requirements
- No GPU requiredDocker or podman for containerized use
- Authentication
- local
- API
- REST
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerK8S
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓Single Container — minimal hosting footprintsingle container
Docker Compose
1 service
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (5 volumes)
docker-compose.yaml · @ 0332e97 · scanned Aug 5, 2026
services:
api:
# See https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/#container-images for
# a list of available container images (or build your own with the provided Dockerfile)
# Available images with CUDA, ROCm, SYCL
# Image list (quay.io): https://quay.io/repository/go-skynet/local-ai?tab=tags
# Image list (dockerhub): https://hub.docker.com/r/localai/localai
image: quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai:master
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
args:
- IMAGE_TYPE=core
- BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
ports:
- 8080:8080
env_file:
- .env
environment:
- MODELS_PATH=/models
# ...
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