LocalAI
★ 47.5kA self-hosted alternative to Chatgpt
MIT LicenseOpen Source — No PaywallSingle Container — single container — minimal hosting footprintDocker · SourceNo external DB17+ active committers (12mo)
About
LocalAI is an open-source AI engine intended for teams and developers who want to run AI workloads on their own hardware rather than depend on a hosted vendor platform. It supports a wide range of...
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- LLM inference
- vision models
- voice models
- image generation
- video generation
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Anthropic API compatibility
- ElevenLabs API compatibility
- multi-user access controls
- built-in AI agents
Details
- Last Updated
- Jul 12, 2026
- Created
- Mar 18, 2023
- Install Methods
- dockersource
- Requirements
- Docker or podmanGPU support is optional for accelerated backends
- 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 · @ c1a55cf · scanned Jun 4, 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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