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Besides llama based models, LocalAI is compatible also with other architectures. The table below lists all the backends, compatible models families and the associated repository.

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LocalAI will attempt to automatically load models which are not explicitly configured for a specific backend. You can specify the backend to use by configuring a model with a YAML file. See [the advanced section]({{%relref "advanced" %}}) for more details.

All backends listed here can be installed on demand from the [Backend Gallery]({{%relref "features/backends" %}}). The exact set of acceleration variants published for each backend is defined in backend/index.yaml.

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Text Generation & Language Models

Backend	Description	Capability	Embeddings	Streaming	Acceleration
llama.cpp	LLM inference in C/C++. Supports LLaMA, Mamba, RWKV, Falcon, Starcoder, GPT-2, and many others	GPT, Functions	yes	yes	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
ik_llama.cpp	Hard fork of llama.cpp optimized for CPU/hybrid CPU+GPU with IQK quants, custom quant mixes, and MLA for DeepSeek	GPT	yes	yes	CPU (AVX2+)
turboquant	llama.cpp fork adding the TurboQuant KV-cache quantization scheme	GPT	yes	yes	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Jetson L4T
ds4	DeepSeek V4 Flash single-model inference engine, optimized for Metal and CUDA	GPT	no	yes	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
vLLM	Fast LLM serving with PagedAttention; GPTQ/AWQ/FP8 quantization	GPT, Functions, Multimodal	no	yes	CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Jetson L4T
vLLM Omni	Unified multimodal generation (text, image, video, audio) on top of vLLM	Multimodal GPT, Functions	no	yes	CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Jetson L4T
SGLang	Fast serving framework for LLMs and vision-language models with speculative decoding	GPT, Functions, Multimodal	no	yes	CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Jetson L4T
transformers	HuggingFace Transformers framework	GPT, Embeddings, Multimodal	yes	yes*	CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal
MLX	Apple Silicon LLM inference	GPT, Functions	no	yes	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
MLX-VLM	Vision-Language Models on Apple Silicon	Multimodal GPT, Functions	no	yes	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
MLX Distributed	Distributed LLM inference across multiple Apple Silicon Macs	GPT	no	no	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
tinygrad	Minimalist deep-learning framework with zero runtime dependencies	GPT, Embeddings, Multimodal	yes	yes	CPU

Speech-to-Text

Backend	Description	Acceleration
whisper.cpp	OpenAI Whisper in C/C++	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
faster-whisper	Fast Whisper with CTranslate2	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
WhisperX	Word-level timestamps and speaker diarization	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
moonshine	Ultra-fast transcription for low-end devices (ONNX)	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal
parakeet.cpp	C++/GGML port of NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet (tdt/ctc/rnnt/hybrid), with cache-aware streaming	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
CrispASR	Unified speech engine (whisper.cpp fork) supporting Parakeet, Canary, and many ASR architectures, plus TTS	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
voxtral	Voxtral Realtime 4B speech-to-text in pure C	CPU, Metal
Qwen3-ASR	Qwen3 automatic speech recognition	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
NeMo	NVIDIA NeMo ASR toolkit	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal
sherpa-onnx	Sherpa-ONNX ASR (Whisper, Paraformer, SenseVoice) and TTS	CPU, CUDA 12, Metal

Text-to-Speech

Backend	Description	Acceleration
piper	Fast neural TTS	CPU, Metal
Coqui TTS	TTS with 1100+ languages and voice cloning	CUDA 12, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal
Kokoro	Lightweight TTS (82M params)	CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
Kokoros	Pure Rust Kokoro TTS via ONNX	CPU
Chatterbox	Production-grade TTS with emotion control	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
VibeVoice	Real-time TTS with voice cloning	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
vibevoice.cpp	Native C++/GGML port of VibeVoice for TTS (voice cloning) and long-form ASR with diarization	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
Qwen3-TTS	TTS with custom voice, voice design, and voice cloning	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
qwentts.cpp	Native C++/GGML Qwen3-TTS with streaming, named speakers, and voice design	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
OmniVoice	Native C++/GGML TTS with voice cloning, voice design, and streaming	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
fish-speech	High-quality TTS with voice cloning	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
Pocket TTS	Lightweight CPU-efficient TTS with voice cloning	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
OuteTTS	TTS with custom speaker voices	CPU, CUDA 12
faster-qwen3-tts	Real-time Qwen3-TTS with CUDA graph capture	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Jetson L4T
NeuTTS Air	Instant voice cloning, on-device TTS	CPU, CUDA 12, ROCm
VoxCPM	Expressive end-to-end TTS	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal
Kitten TTS	Kitten TTS model	CPU, Metal
Supertonic	Lightning-fast on-device multilingual TTS via ONNX	CPU
MLX-Audio	Audio models on Apple Silicon	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Metal, Jetson L4T
liquid-audio	LFM2 end-to-end speech-to-speech, ASR, and TTS	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Jetson L4T

Music & Sound Generation

Backend	Description	Acceleration
ACE-Step	Music generation from text descriptions, lyrics, or audio	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal
acestep.cpp	ACE-Step 1.5 C++ backend using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T

Image & Video Generation

Backend	Description	Acceleration
stable-diffusion.cpp	Stable Diffusion, Flux, PhotoMaker, Ideogram in C/C++	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
diffusers	HuggingFace diffusion models (image and video generation)	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
vLLM Omni	Multimodal generation including text-to-image and text-to-video	CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Jetson L4T

Vision, Detection & Recognition

Backend	Description	Acceleration
RF-DETR	Real-time transformer-based object detection (Python)	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Intel SYCL, Metal, Jetson L4T
rf-detr.cpp	Native RF-DETR object detection and instance segmentation in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Jetson L4T
locate-anything.cpp	Open-vocabulary object detection and visual grounding (LocateAnything-3B) in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Jetson L4T
depth-anything.cpp	Depth Anything 3 monocular metric depth + camera pose in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Jetson L4T
sam3.cpp	Segment Anything (SAM 3/2/EdgeTAM) with text/point/box prompts in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Jetson L4T
face-detect.cpp	Native face detection, recognition, embedding, demographics and anti-spoofing (SCRFD/ArcFace, YuNet/SFace) in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
voice-detect.cpp	Native speaker (voice) recognition and voice analysis (ECAPA-TDNN, WeSpeaker, ERes2Net, CAM++, wav2vec2) in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Metal, Jetson L4T
insightface	Face verification, embedding, and anti-spoofing liveness (ONNX Runtime)	CPU, CUDA 12
speaker-recognition	Speaker (voice) recognition via SpeechBrain ECAPA-TDNN	CPU, CUDA 12, Metal

Audio Processing

Backend	Description	Acceleration
Silero VAD	Voice Activity Detection	CPU, Metal
LocalVQE	Joint acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, and dereverberation in C/C++ using GGML	CPU, CUDA 12/13, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Vulkan, Jetson L4T
Opus	Audio codec for WebRTC / Realtime API	CPU, Metal

Utilities & Other

Backend	Description	Acceleration
rerankers	Document reranking for RAG	CUDA 12, ROCm, Intel SYCL, Metal
privacy-filter.cpp	Standalone GGML engine for the openai-privacy-filter PII/NER token-classification model family (powers LocalAI's PII redaction tier)	CPU, CUDA 13, Vulkan
local-store	Local-first vector database for embeddings	CPU, Metal
TRL	Fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, GRPO, RLOO, KTO, ORPO)	CPU, CUDA 12/13
llama.cpp quantization	HuggingFace → GGUF model conversion and quantization	CPU, Metal

Acceleration Support Summary

GPU Acceleration

• NVIDIA CUDA: CUDA 12.0, CUDA 13.0 support across most backends
• AMD ROCm: HIP-based acceleration for AMD GPUs
• Intel oneAPI: SYCL-based acceleration for Intel GPUs (F16/F32 precision)
• Vulkan: Cross-platform GPU acceleration
• Metal: Apple Silicon GPU acceleration (M1/M2/M3+)

Specialized Hardware

• NVIDIA Jetson (L4T CUDA 12): ARM64 support for embedded AI (AGX Orin, Jetson Nano, Jetson Xavier NX, Jetson AGX Xavier)
• NVIDIA Jetson (L4T CUDA 13): ARM64 support for embedded AI (DGX Spark)
• Apple Silicon: Native Metal acceleration for Mac M1/M2/M3+
• Darwin x86: Intel Mac support

CPU Optimization

• AVX/AVX2/AVX512: Advanced vector extensions for x86
• Quantization: 4-bit, 5-bit, 8-bit integer quantization support
• Mixed Precision: F16/F32 mixed precision support

Note: any backend name listed above can be used in the backend field of the model configuration file (See [the advanced section]({{%relref "advanced" %}})).

• * Only for CUDA and OpenVINO CPU/XPU acceleration.