5 Best Local LLM Tools and Models You Should Run in 2026

1. text-generation-webui

   1 2 47,122 - Python

   Discontinued Open-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% private. [Moved to: https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen]

   

   Text Generation WebUI: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

2. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. LocalAI

   2 96 46,698 9.9 Go

   LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

   

   LocalAI: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI

4. Qwen3

   3 15 27,298 7.9 Python

   Qwen3 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud.

   

   Qwen3: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3

5. ollama

   4 750 173,924 9.9 Go

   Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.

   

6. gemma_pytorch

   5 22 5,676 5.3 Python

   The official PyTorch implementation of Google's Gemma models

   

   Gemma: https://ai.google.dev/gemma

Suggest a related project