* feat(ui): record finished gallery operations in a bounded history ring The operations panel drops an operation the moment it succeeds, so a user who steps away cannot tell whether an install finished, failed or was never started. OpCache now keeps the last 50 terminal operations, recorded from the point where an op leaves the cache. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): pin the history ring's dedupe, outcome order and start stamp Review of the history ring found four gaps. The dedupe guard and the bounded seen set were unreachable through the exported API and so had no coverage; an in-package spec file now drives opHistory directly. The outcome switch claimed an ordering was load bearing that nothing pinned, so an errored op that never reached Processed now has a spec. Two behaviour fixes come with it. StartedAt was the zero time for ops recovered from the store or replicated from a peer, since neither path stamps a start time, which would have rendered as a two-millennia duration; it now falls back to the finish time. Reusing a cache key with a fresh job ID orphaned the previous stamp, so Set and SetBackend now drop it. The comment on the outcome switch described a state the code cannot be in: CancelOperation sets Cancelled and Processed synchronously before the handler removes the entry, so status.Cancelled already covers the cancel endpoint. The !Processed clause stays for the dismiss endpoint firing on an in-flight op, and the comments now say so. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): record operations that end on a peer replica The NATS end event is the only signal a replica gets for an install another replica ran. Record from applyEnd too, deduped by job ID so the originating replica does not record its own broadcast twice. Three start-stamp defects in the same path go with it. applyEnd now drops the stamp unconditionally, since recordTerminal only cleans up on the path where it found a cache key and an end event can overtake the local Set. applyStart drops the stamp of the job whose cache key it replaces, which a peer-driven retry previously stranded. And recordTerminal reads the stamp once instead of testing Exists and then reading, so a concurrent record for the same job can no longer delete the stamp between the two and let the zero time overwrite the finish-time fallback, which the Activity page would render as a two-millennia run. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): do not guess the outcome of a peer operation with no local status A replica that restarts mid-operation hydrates its OpCache keys from PostgreSQL, but gallery statuses are in-memory only and come back empty. The end broadcast then landed on recordTerminal's nil-status branch, which reads a missing status as queued-and-removed and filed a successful install as cancelled. That reading is right locally and wrong on the peer path, where a missing status means the outcome was never held here. recordTerminal now takes the source of the terminal event and records nothing when the peer path finds no status, restoring what the replica did before the end event started recording. The local path is unchanged. Also move the ApplyEndForTest seam to the conventional export_test.go, and stop the dedupe spec from claiming to guard the ring's seen set: the local delete removes the status keys, so the broadcast that follows returns before reaching it. An in-package spec that calls recordTerminal twice does the pinning. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(api): add GET and DELETE /api/operations/history Admin gated like the rest of the operations API. The live /api/operations payload is unchanged so the one second poll stays small. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): expose operation history through OperationsContext Fetched on demand and when the live list shrinks, never on the one second poll interval. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): detect operation departure by identity and ignore committing ops in the ETA gate Refetching history on a shrinking live count missed a completion that coincided with a start, which is the common case during a batch install. Track the live job IDs instead, so any departure triggers the refetch regardless of how the count moved. An operation that has finished downloading stays live at currentBytes == totalBytes for the whole commit and install phase and can never produce an estimate, so counting it in the all-or-nothing gate blanked every other operation's time remaining for as long as it lasted. Only operations still moving bytes get a vote. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): let only downloading operations gate the time remaining estimate Verifying pins an operation flat below its total for the whole sha256 pass: the AfterDownload hook reports completedBytes plus the finished file against a total summed over every file, then hashes synchronously without emitting progress. Files download sequentially, so a 15 shard model enters that window 14 times, and a byte comparison cannot see it because the counter is genuinely below the total throughout. Gating on phase closes resolving, verifying, committing and persisting in one predicate, so a quiet neighbour no longer blanks every other operation's estimate for minutes at a time. The byte clauses stay: a producer can report downloading with bytes already at the total. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): collapse the operations bar to a single line Four concurrent installs used to take four rows above every page. The strip now shows one operation, failure first, with a counter linking to Activity. The close button hides the strip and no longer cancels an install. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): keep the operations strip from widening the page and from muting a failure A long install error made the strip report a 1600px minimum width, which sized main-content to fit and gave every page under it a horizontal scrollbar. Inline-size containment plus shrinkable detail and bytes cells keep it inside the viewport. Hiding is no longer able to swallow the hidden job's own failure, a completed removal or staging says so instead of claiming an install, a cancelling operation renders as cancelling, and the live region no longer covers the per-second percentage. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): shrink main-content instead of containing the strip, and expose progress min-width on .main-content is what actually lets a long install error shrink, and unlike inline-size containment it has no browser support floor and no latent collapse if the strip ever lands in a shrink-to-fit context. It matches what .app-layout-chat .main-content already does, and it clears pre-existing horizontal overflow on narrow viewports as a side effect. The progress track is now a labelled progressbar, so assistive tech can read the value on demand rather than losing it to the aria-hidden that stopped the live region re-announcing every poll. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): add the live operation card for the Activity page Carries the detail the one-line strip has to drop: phase, bytes, the per-node breakdown for cluster installs, and a labelled Cancel button. Cancelling is destructive, so it gets a labelled button rather than a glyph. A cancelling operation drops its progress bar and its time estimate, the same call the strip makes: a percentage still climbing under "Cancelling" reads as the cancel not having taken. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): give the operation card a verb, live node disclosure and its per-node detail The card carried no verb, so an install, a removal and a staging op rendered as spinner plus name plus kind tag and were indistinguishable. It now runs the same verb and icon chain as the one-line strip, which is what stops the page that is meant to carry more detail from carrying less. The auto-expand default was evaluated once at mount. An operation is listed as soon as it is admitted but its nodes are filled in only when the fan-out starts reporting, so a card mounted at creation latched on the empty list and stayed collapsed. The default is a live expression now, and state holds only an explicit choice. Also: an optional onRetry gates a Retry button, so the page can own the install reconstruction without the card ever showing a control with nothing behind it; the disclosure moved above the region it controls and gained aria-controls; the toggle is gated at more than one node so the count is never "1 nodes"; an unmapped node status is passed through instead of being relabelled "Queued"; error text is clamped with the full string in the title; and file_name plus the per-node progress bar are rendered again, reviving three CSS rules that had gone dead along with the detail they styled. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): add the Activity page Live operations, unacknowledged failures and the record of what finished, at /app/activity in the Operate console. Cancelling an install now lives here behind a labelled button rather than on the strip, and a failed install can be retried: the retry dismisses the failure first so it still reaches the record, then reissues the model, backend or node-scoped backend install. The sidebar Operate entry carries the operation count. The console rail is only rendered on an Operate route and can be collapsed, so a badge there could vanish while operations were still running. Two follow-ups from review fold in here: a failed removal or staging job no longer reports a failed install on either the card or the strip, and the card's error text can shrink so one unbroken token cannot widen the card. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): dismiss operations by job, and stop the Activity page contradicting itself Dismissing resolved the job by display id, but /api/operations strips the "node:<nodeID>:" prefix before emitting, so a local install and a node-scoped install of one backend arrive as two jobs sharing one id. Dismissing by id retired whichever came first. That defeated the guarantee retry was built around: with the wrong job dismissed, the reinstall overwrote the acted-on failure's opcache entry in place, bypassing recordTerminal, while an unrelated failure vanished from Needs attention. dismissFailedOp, the card's dismiss control and the strip now all pass the jobID, which is what the endpoint takes. A filter matching nothing rendered the "nothing has ever run" empty state while the header counted the records the filter had hidden. The empty state is now gated on the All chip and a narrowed view gets its own message plus a way back; the header counts the instance rather than the chip, so selecting Backends no longer reports "Nothing running" over running model installs. Also: the summary drops a zero clause instead of rendering "0 needs attention" on the happy path and pluralises both counts; a record duration is floored at "< 1s" and rejected above a day, so a zero-value start stamp cannot render a span of millennia and a zero span cannot render "installed in" with nothing after it; a deletion cancelled mid-flight reports the cancellation rather than claiming it was removed; and the retry variant comment names the fix instead of calling the gap closed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: document the Activity page and the operations history endpoints Adds an Activity page under Operations covering the one-line operations strip, the /app/activity sections and filters, per-operation cancel, retry and dismiss, the in-memory 50-entry record, and the sidebar count. Documents GET and DELETE /api/operations/history, and fills the gap in the admin-only endpoint list, which also omitted the pre-existing POST /api/operations/:jobID/dismiss. Corrects the distributed-mode install-watching section: the per-node breakdown now lives on the Activity page rather than on the strip, which rolls a fan-out up into a single phrase. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: correct nine details in the Activity page documentation The operations strip never renders a file name: its detail line is the error, the node roll-up, the target node, the phase or the queued note. Drops the stale clause in the distributed-mode section, where the per-node bullet is now the only place a file name is described. Scopes the phase vocabulary to artifact-backed gallery models, since a plain GGUF install emits no phase. Corrects the per-node list: the toggle exists for any fan-out of two or more workers and the four-node threshold only governs whether it starts open, while the N nodes tag needs more than one node. Notes that a cancelled operation can sit in the live section reading Cancelling, that cluster staging never reaches the record, and that Clear history appears only when the record has something in it. Names the operations response envelope, with a JSON example, so callers do not index a bare array, and stops describing the icon-only dismiss control as a labelled button. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: drop the unreachable Cancelling state and scope the byte claims An operation can only report isCancelled while it is unprocessed, but every writer of Cancelled sets Processed in the same breath, on the peer path as much as the local one, and the cache evicts cancelled entries before the handler sees them. The state cannot reach the page, so the live section is described again as running or queued operations. Byte counts come from the artifact bridge alone, the same producer as the phase, so a plain GGUF install, a removal and a backend install report none. Scopes both to artifact-backed gallery models and leaves the verb, the name and the percentage as what every operation shows. A worker backend install reports its bytes through fields the operations payload does not carry, so the distributed section now describes the percentage and the node roll-up, with per-file counts pointed at the per-node detail. Also: staging jobs carry no error, so they never reach Needs attention and Retry never had a staging case to exclude; an install that involves workers is no longer called node-scoped, which this page uses for node-targeted installs; and the record timestamps carry nanoseconds. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: state only the verb and the name as unconditional on the strip The percentage is as conditional as the bytes were: it renders only for a running operation that has reported progress, so a queued operation, a failed one and a removal never carry it. A removal in particular sits at progress zero for its whole visible life, since the delete path reports none and its completion is filtered out. Both the strip and the card paragraphs now lead with what always shows and list the rest as conditions. The Cluster chip matches on a node list that finished operations do not carry, so a fan-out install leaves the chip once it reaches the record. Scoped that claim to the live sections. Two more of the same shape, found by re-reading each clause alone: the strip also appears for a failure, which is not running, and the four-second hold only applies when nothing replaces the operation that just finished. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): stop reporting a cancelled install as installed, and make queued real Three defects that all trace to one root cause: `isCancelled: true` is unreachable from /api/operations. Every writer of Cancelled=true also sets Processed=true, the handler skips Processed && Cancelled, and OpCache.GetStatus evicts a cancelled op before the handler iterates it. Cancelling the last running operation put a green "Installed model X" on the strip for four seconds: the completion hold was guarded by `!previous.isCancelled`, which is dead. A cancellation deletes the operation server side, so the strip sees exactly what it sees on a completion, and nothing in the payload separates the two. The signal now comes from the side that issued the cancel: the operations context remembers the job IDs it cancelled (pruned after a minute) and the strip asks before it holds anything. A cancelled operation goes as soon as it stops; the record already reports it as cancelled. isQueued was set only when the gallery status was missing, but markQueued publishes a "queued" status at admission, so a queued op has a status for its whole queued life and the state was unreachable outside a microsecond window. Every operation waiting behind a running install rendered as "Installing model X" with a spinner. The queued phase is now the signal, via an exported PhaseQueued and a nil-safe OpStatus.IsQueued() next to the writer. With those two fixed, the Cancelling state has no way to be entered: cancelling is instantaneous from the API's point of view. Its branches, CSS, locale key and the isCancelled field itself are removed rather than left for a future reader to assume they work. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): keep a removal a removal, and say what an install is doing OpStatus.Deletion was set once, at admission, and lost on the next status write: UpdateStatus replaces the whole status and only carried Nodes forward. Every later writer (the worker's first write, the progress ticks, the failure path) leaves the field at its zero value, so the flag survived only the queued window, and both surfaces test isQueued first. The reachable consequence is that a failed removal reported itself as a failed install, which is exactly the shape the Activity page offers Retry for, and Retry installs: pressing it on a removal that failed re-downloaded the model. A running delete also rendered as "Installing model X" with a spinner, and a successful one as "Installed model X". Carry Deletion forward the way Nodes already is. A job is a delete or an install for its whole life; an unset flag means "no new information", not "this is an install". Pinned by Go specs on both the service and /api/operations: the existing Playwright specs were green only because they stubbed a payload the server could not emit. Also restore the operation's own status message on the Activity card. Phases and byte counters exist only on the managed-artifact path, so a legacy files: gallery model and every backend install rendered a sub-row with nothing in it but the verb. The strip stays terse on purpose. And give the strip's name a min-width floor: overflow: hidden zeroes its automatic minimum, so a long error squeezed the name down to "mod…" and the identity of the thing that broke was the first thing lost. primaryOperation is made module-private: its comment claimed the Activity page selected the same operation, but that page shows all of them, partitioned into failed and running, and never imported it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(activity): read the operations record from PostgreSQL The Activity page's record of finished installs and removals was a 50-entry in-memory ring per frontend replica. In distributed mode that is the wrong place for it: each replica keeps its own copy, a replica added by a scale-out or a rolling deploy starts empty and never backfills, and "Clear history" clears only the replica that served the request, so the record reappears on the next poll routed elsewhere. The data is already in gallery_operations. Read it from there. GalleryStore gains ListTerminal and ClearTerminal, sharing a lifted terminalStatuses set with CleanOld so there is one definition of "finished". ListTerminal orders by updated_at, when the operation reached its terminal status, because the record reports what finished and when. OpCache.History and ClearHistory dispatch on whether a store is wired, so the HTTP handlers and the OpRecord JSON shape are unchanged and the page needed no change. A failed store read falls back to the local ring rather than blanking the page, and ClearHistory empties the ring as well so a database blip cannot resurrect a record the admin just cleared. The name derivation in recordTerminal is lifted into operationDisplayName and used by both paths, so the ring and the store cannot name the same operation differently. Also fixes a pre-existing bug the store path made visible: the backend channel hardcoded op_type "backend_install" even for a removal, while the model channel derives model_install/model_delete from op.Delete. Both channels carry the same ManagementOp, whose Delete field the backend handler already branches on, so the backend channel now derives backend_delete the same way. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): keep a cancelled operation cancelled, and report a failed clear Review follow-up on the store-backed Activity record. A cancelled install was recorded as a failure. The cancel handler persists "cancelled" synchronously, then the handler goroutine unwinds with the context error and Start hands that to updateError unconditionally, which overwrote the row with "failed: context canceled". The page rendered a cancelled install as a red failure card offering Retry, with a raw context error as the reason. Fixed in GalleryStore rather than in Start, because an operation finishes once and the paths that retire one are not mutually exclusive: UpdateStatus now refuses to rewrite a row that already reached a terminal status. That also pins updated_at to when the operation really finished, which is the key the record is ordered by, and Create's upsert now freezes the same columns so a worker dequeuing an operation the admin cancelled while it was queued cannot reopen it as pending. ClearHistory returned nothing, so a failed delete logged a warning while the handler still answered 200. The admin watched the record clear and come back on the next fetch with nothing said about why. It now returns the error, the DELETE handler answers 500, and the store is cleared before the local ring so a failure leaves the fallback record intact rather than faking an empty one. Hydrate is the only reader that decides from op_type whether an operation is a removal, and it tested for "model_delete" exactly, so the backend_delete added in the previous commit hydrated as an install: a replica restarting during a backend removal rendered "Installing backend X". Both discriminations now go through IsDeleteOpType/IsBackendOpType so a fifth op_type cannot silently read as an install in whichever consumer was missed. Also: the backend channel now persists Cancellable as !op.Delete, matching the model channel; IsBackend falls back to the op_type prefix, since is_backend_op is only written by UpsertCacheKey and the rows needing the name fallback were reporting backend operations as models; and an unrecognized terminal status is logged rather than quietly filed as a success, which is what the comment already claimed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): keep a reaped operation correctable by its real outcome The terminal-status freeze added in the previous commit was too wide. It froze "failed" alongside "completed" and "cancelled", and the stale reaper writes "failed" onto operations that are still going to run. The gallery worker is a single goroutine consuming both channels serially, so an operation queued behind a large download sits in "pending" with nothing bumping updated_at, and ReapStaleOperations gives up on it after 30 minutes. That used to be self-healing: the worker dequeued it, Create reset the row to "pending", and the operation reported its real outcome. With the freeze the row stayed "failed" forever while the install ran and succeeded underneath it: a red failure card offering Retry for a model that is installed, omitted from ListActive so no replica hydrates it, and no longer deduped cluster-wide by FindDuplicate. Freeze on ("completed", "cancelled") instead. That is all the cancelled-install fix ever needed, and it leaves a failure correctable by what actually happened. The set is separate from terminalStatuses, which ListTerminal, ClearTerminal and CleanOld all still want in full, because the two mean different things: a failure can be superseded by a real outcome, a completion or a cancellation is the real outcome. UpdateStatus now writes the error column unconditionally, so a corrected outcome drops the previous attempt's reason rather than being recorded as completed while still carrying "stale operation reaped" as its error. Also adds the route-level spec for the 500 branch of DELETE /api/operations/history, and trims a comment that credited the persisted cancellable column with more than it survives long enough to do. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): offer Cancel in the phase that can honour it The cancellable flag was set at both ends of an operation's life and was wrong at both, in opposite directions. A queued operation is cancellable whatever it is. EnqueueModelOp and EnqueueBackendOp select on the operation context, so cancelling one that is still waiting releases the delivery goroutine and abandonQueued retires it: the worker never sees it, nothing is downloaded, nothing is deleted. markQueued nevertheless wrote Cancellable: !deletion, so a queued removal reported cancellable: false and the UI hid the Cancel button in the one window where pressing it both works and leaves no trace. A removal queued behind a large install was stuck there until the install finished. A running removal is not cancellable at all. DeleteModel and DeleteBackend take no context, and modelHandler only checks the operation context after the call returns, so a "cancelled" verdict would land after the model was already gone. Both handlers nevertheless wrote Cancellable: true unconditionally at entry, ahead of the op.Delete branch, offering a Cancel button the server cannot honour. So the queued phase is more cancellable than the running phase, which is the reverse of the usual shape. markQueued now reports true unconditionally, and the handler-entry writes report !op.Delete. Both sites carry a comment saying why, because reading either one alone suggests the other is a bug. GalleryStore.Create keeps !op.Delete: it runs at dequeue, so its value already describes the running phase. Its comment now says so. Specs cover queued removal, queued install, running removal and running install through the handlers, plus the queued-removal case through /api/operations where the flag is consumed, plus the behaviour the whole asymmetry rests on: a removal cancelled while queued never reaches the worker and deletes nothing. No existing spec asserted the old values. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): clamp the installer message, and add a real-binary e2e spec Running the page against a real local-ai showed the legacy installer message wrapping to three lines and dominating the card: it embeds an absolute file path, so it is both long and a single unbreakable token. One line, ellipsised, full text in the title, matching what the error string already does. The spec that found it runs with no route stubbing at all. Every other spec here stubs /api/operations, which is how a payload the server cannot emit (isDeletion true on a live operation) stayed green through a full review while the UI rendered a removal as an install. It is skipped unless LOCALAI_REAL_BINARY is set, so CI is unaffected. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
A small core, not a bundle. Each backend wraps a best-in-class engine (llama.cpp, vLLM, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion, MLX...) in its own image, pulled only when a model needs it. You install nothing you don't use.
- Composable by design: backends are separate and pulled on demand, so you install only what your model needs
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Quickstart
macOS
Note: The DMG is not signed by Apple. After installing, run:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalAI.app. See #6268 for details.
Containers (Docker, podman, ...)
Already ran LocalAI before? Use
docker start -i local-aito restart an existing container.
CPU only:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest
NVIDIA GPU:
# CUDA 13
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13
# CUDA 12
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 12, for AGX Orin and similar)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 13, for DGX Spark)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64-cuda-13
AMD GPU (ROCm):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add=video localai/localai:latest-gpu-hipblas
Intel GPU (oneAPI):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/dri/card1 --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel
Vulkan GPU:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-gpu-vulkan
Loading models
# From the model gallery (see available models with `local-ai models list` or at https://models.localai.io)
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# From Huggingface
local-ai run huggingface://TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF/phi-2.Q8_0.gguf
# From the Ollama OCI registry
local-ai run ollama://gemma:2b
# From a YAML config
local-ai run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/.../phi-2.yaml
# From a standard OCI registry (e.g., Docker Hub)
local-ai run oci://localai/phi-2:latest
To test a running LocalAI server from the terminal, open an interactive chat session from another shell. Inside the prompt, /models lists installed models and /model <name> switches between them.
# Terminal 1
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# Terminal 2
local-ai chat --model llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
Automatic Backend Detection: LocalAI automatically detects your GPU capabilities and downloads the appropriate backend. For advanced options, see GPU Acceleration.
For more details, see the Getting Started guide.
Latest News
- June 2026: New native biometric backends from the LocalAI team: voice-detect.cpp for speaker recognition and voice analysis (ECAPA-TDNN, WeSpeaker, ERes2Net, CAM++, wav2vec2 age/gender/emotion) and face-detect.cpp for face detection, recognition, demographics and anti-spoofing (SCRFD/ArcFace, YuNet/SFace). Both are from-scratch C++/ggml engines with no Python or onnxruntime at inference, self-contained GGUF weights, bit-exact parity with the reference, and GPU cuDNN parity, replacing the heavier Python
insightfaceandspeaker-recognitionbackends (PR #10441). - June 2026: New realtime voice assistant demo (a tiny Go client for the Realtime API with a full talk-back voice loop and tool calling), plus streaming of the realtime LLM / TTS / transcription pipeline stages and configurable WebRTC ICE candidates.
- June 2026: Big speech push: the parakeet.cpp ASR engine gains NeMo-faithful segment timestamps, a multilingual streaming Nemotron-3.5 model, dynamic batching for concurrent transcription and CUDA graphs; the new CrispASR backend adds multi-architecture ASR + TTS, and 60 Piper TTS voices across 42 languages land in the gallery (plus per-request TTS instructions and params).
- June 2026: New backends and models: locate-anything.cpp for open-vocabulary object detection via ggml, Ideogram4 image generation in stablediffusion-ggml, llama.cpp video input, and the Gemma 4 QAT family with MTP speculative-decoding pairs. Plus an interactive CLI chat mode and RAG source citations in agent responses.
- June 2026: Distributed mode hardening: prefix-cache-aware routing, a production-ready request router with auto-sized embedding/rerank batches, ds4 layer-split distributed inference, NATS JWT auth + TLS/mTLS, and resumable file uploads.
- May 2026: LocalAI 4.3.0 -
llama.cppprompt cache on by default (repeated system prompts collapse from minutes to seconds), keyless cosign signing of backend OCI images, per-API-key + per-user usage attribution, Distributed v3 with per-request replica routing. Release notes - May 2026: LocalAI 4.2.0 - LocalAI sees and hears: voice recognition, face recognition + antispoofing liveness, speaker diarization. Plus drop-in Ollama API, video generation, redesigned UI with i18n + admin-configurable branding, vLLM at feature parity with llama.cpp, and 11 new backends. Release notes
- April 2026: LocalAI 4.1.0 - LocalAI becomes a control tower: distributed cluster mode with VRAM-aware smart routing + autoscaling, multi-user platform with OIDC and API keys, per-user quotas with predictive analytics, in-UI fine-tuning with TRL (auto-export to GGUF), on-the-fly quantization backend, visual pipeline editor. Release notes
- March 2026: LocalAI 4.0.0 - native agentic orchestration with the new Agenthub community hub, full React UI rewrite with Canvas mode, MCP Apps + client-side with tool streaming, WebRTC realtime audio, MLX-distributed. Release notes
- February 2026: Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling, ACE-Step 1.5 support
- January 2026: LocalAI 3.10.0 — Anthropic API support, Open Responses API, video & image generation (LTX-2), unified GPU backends, tool streaming, Moonshine, Pocket-TTS. Release notes
- December 2025: Dynamic Memory Resource reclaimer, Automatic multi-GPU model fitting (llama.cpp), Vibevoice backend
- November 2025: Import models via URL, Multiple chats and history
- October 2025: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for agentic capabilities
- September 2025: New Launcher for macOS and Linux, extended backend support for Mac and Nvidia L4T, MLX-Audio, WAN 2.2
- August 2025: MLX, MLX-VLM, Diffusers, llama.cpp now supported on Apple Silicon
- July 2025: All backends migrated outside the main binary — lightweight, modular architecture
For older news and full release notes, see GitHub Releases and the News page.
Features
- Text generation (
llama.cpp,transformers,vllm... and more) - Text to Audio
- Audio to Text
- Image generation
- OpenAI-compatible tools API
- Realtime API (Speech-to-speech)
- Embeddings generation
- Constrained grammars
- Download models from Huggingface
- Vision API
- Object Detection
- Reranker API
- P2P Inferencing
- Distributed Mode — Horizontal scaling with PostgreSQL + NATS
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Built-in Agents — Autonomous AI agents with tool use, RAG, skills, SSE streaming, and Agent Hub
- Backend Gallery — Install/remove backends on the fly via OCI images
- Voice Activity Detection (Silero-VAD)
- Integrated WebUI
Supported Backends & Acceleration
LocalAI supports 60+ backends including llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for NVIDIA (CUDA 12/13), AMD (ROCm), Intel (oneAPI/SYCL), Apple Silicon (Metal), Vulkan, and NVIDIA Jetson (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the Backend Gallery.
See the full Backend & Model Compatibility Table and GPU Acceleration guide.
Backends built by us
Most backends wrap a best-in-class upstream engine. A handful of them are native C/C++/GGML engines (no Python at inference) developed and maintained by the LocalAI project itself:
| Backend | What it does |
|---|---|
| vllm.cpp | From-scratch C++20 port of vLLM for text generation: paged KV cache, continuous batching, prefix caching, safetensors + GGUF loading, engine-enforced structured output, on CPU, CUDA, Metal and Vulkan |
| parakeet.cpp | C++/GGML port of NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet ASR (tdt/ctc/rnnt/hybrid), with cache-aware streaming transcription |
| moss-transcribe.cpp | C++/GGML port of OpenMOSS MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize: joint long-form transcription, speaker diarization and timestamping in a single pass |
| moss-tts.cpp | C++/GGML port of the OpenMOSS MOSS-TTS family: text-to-speech (MOSS-TTS-Local v1.5, 48 kHz stereo) with reference-audio voice cloning, through the MOSS-Audio-Tokenizer neural codec |
| magpie-tts.cpp | C++/GGML port of NVIDIA's Magpie TTS Multilingual 357M: 22.05 kHz mono text-to-speech in 5 voices and 9+ languages, with the NanoCodec neural codec and tokenizer/G2P embedded in a single GGUF |
| ced.cpp | C++/GGML port of the CED audio-tagging models: sound-event classification (527-class AudioSet) over REST and the realtime API for live recognition |
| voice-detect.cpp | Speaker recognition and voice analysis (ECAPA-TDNN, WeSpeaker, ERes2Net, CAM++, wav2vec2 age/gender/emotion), replacing the Python speaker-recognition backend |
| voxtral-tts.c | Voxtral Realtime 4B speech-to-text in pure C |
| vibevoice.cpp | Native port of Microsoft VibeVoice for TTS (voice cloning) and long-form ASR with speaker diarization |
| rf-detr.cpp | Native RF-DETR object detection and instance segmentation |
| locate-anything.cpp | Open-vocabulary object detection and visual grounding (LocateAnything-3B) |
| depth-anything.cpp | Depth Anything 3 monocular metric depth + camera pose estimation |
| face-detect.cpp | Face detection, recognition, demographics and anti-spoofing (SCRFD/ArcFace, YuNet/SFace), replacing the Python insightface backend |
| free-splatter.cpp | Pose-free 3D reconstruction (FreeSplatter): turns a handful of plain photos into 3D Gaussians, no camera poses or GPU required |
| privacy-filter.cpp | Standalone GGML PII/NER token-classification engine powering LocalAI's PII redaction tier |
| LocalVQE | Joint acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, and dereverberation |
| local-store | Local-first vector database for embeddings (shipped in-tree) |
We also maintain apex-quant, a per-tensor, per-layer quantization recipe for Mixture-of-Experts models that exploits their structural sparsity to produce GGUFs matching or beating Q8_0 quality - and they run out of the box on stock llama.cpp.
Resources
- Documentation
- LLM fine-tuning guide
- Build from source
- Kubernetes installation
- Integrations & community projects
- Installation video walkthrough
- Media & blog posts
- Examples — including the realtime voice assistant demo (Go client for the Realtime API with tool calling)
Team
LocalAI is maintained by a small team of humans, together with the wider community of contributors.
- Ettore Di Giacinto — original author and project lead
- Richard Palethorpe — maintainer
A huge thank you to everyone who contributes code, reviews PRs, files issues, and helps users in Discord — LocalAI is a community-driven project and wouldn't exist without you. See the full contributors list.
Citation
If you utilize this repository, data in a downstream project, please consider citing it with:
@misc{localai,
author = {Ettore Di Giacinto},
title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative},
year = {2023},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}},
Sponsors
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A huge thank you to our generous sponsors who support this project covering CI expenses, and our Sponsor list:
Individual sponsors
A special thanks to individual sponsors, a full list is on GitHub and buymeacoffee. Special shout out to drikster80 for being generous. Thank you everyone!
Star history
License
LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto mudler@localai.io
Acknowledgements
LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!
- llama.cpp
- https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
- https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
- https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
- https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
- https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- exo for the MLX distributed auto-parallel sharding implementation
Contributors
This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors!

