LocalAI

🌍 International 📖 Open Source ✅ Free
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Open-source self-hosted drop-in OpenAI API alternative. Supports LLaMA, Mistral, Stable Diffusion, embeddings, and image generation offline.

🎁 Free Tier

Daily Limit: MIT open-source, zero API cost when self-hosted.

ModelContextLimitNotes
local-model Depends on the downloaded model Hardware-bound Uses local GGUF / safetensors models; quota depends on your own hardware.

🔑 Free API

Free Credits: Self-hosted free OpenAI-compatible API; you pay only your hardware or cloud GPU cost.

Rate Limit: Hardware-bound; set concurrency and context limits in your LocalAI config.

LocalAI exposes local OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions, embeddings, images, and related endpoints for private or offline deployments.

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