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24 alternatives to Codellm

User Local LLM and OPENAI to power your favorite IDE VSC.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Codellm launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    1Code▲569

    Just to clarify the background a bit. This project wasn’t planned as a big standalone release at first. On January 16, Ollama added support for an Anthropic-compatible API, and I was curious how far this could be pushed in practice. I decided to try plugging local Ollama models directly into a Claude Code-style workflow and see if it would actually work end to end. Here is the release note from Ollama that made this possible: https://ollama.com/blog/claude Technically, what I do is pretty straightforward: - Detect which local models are available in Ollama. - When…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to chat with local AI

    2025 · ollama.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN A few folks and I have been working on this project for a couple weeks now. After previously working on the Docker project for a number of years (both on the container runtime and image registry side), the recent rise in open source language models made us think something similar needed to exist for large language models too. While not exactly the same as running linux containers, running LLMs shares quite a few of the same challenges. There are "base layers" (e.g. models like Llama 2), specific configuration to run correctly (parameters, temperature, context window sizes etc). There's…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4OS

    Complete AI Platform: RAG Systems & Intelligent Agents for Local AI

    2025 · rlama.dev · its alternatives →

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    Massive local model speedup on Apple Silicon with MLX

    Apr 2026 · ollama.com · its alternatives →

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    Run leading vision models locally with the new engine

    2025 · ollama.com · its alternatives →

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    Ollama▲235

    The easiest way to run large language models locally

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Source: https://github.com/tcsenpai/spacellama

    2024 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, we’re a small team, supported by Mozilla, who are working on re-imagining a UI for training, tuning and testing local LLMs. Everything is open source. If you’ve been training your own LLMs or have always wanted to, we’d love for you to play with the tool and give feedback on what the future development experience for LLM engineering could look like.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ollamac▲205

    A macOS app for interacting with the Ollama models

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools. It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models. Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features. Here are some quick demos: * Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s * Chat with documents…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we’re Nate and Ty, co-founders of Continue, an open-source autopilot for software development built to be deeply customizable and continuously learn from development data. It consists of an extended language server and (to start) a VS Code extension. Our GitHub is https://github.com/continuedev/continue. You can watch a demo of Continue and download the extension at https://continue.dev — — — A growing number of developers are replacing Google + Stack Overflow with Large Language Models (LLMs) as their primary approach to get help, similar to how…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LLM Gatewayfree tier▲296

    I built an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway that routes requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, vLLM, llama-server, SGLang... anything that speaks /v1/chat/completions. Single Go binary, one YAML config file, no infrastructure. It does the things you'd expect from this kind of gateway... semantic routing via a three-layer cascade (keyword heuristics, embedding similarity, LLM classifier) that picks the best model when clients omit the model field, weighted round-robin load balancing across local inference servers with health checks and failover. The part I think is most…

    2025 · llmgateway.io · its alternatives →

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    x ollama - The command-line client tool for Ollama, an open-source framework for running large language models locally.

    2024 · x-cmd.com · its alternatives →

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    VimLM is a local, offline coding assistant for Vim. It’s like Copilot but runs entirely on your machine—no APIs, no tracking, no cloud. - Deep Context: Understands your codebase (current file, selections, references). - Conversational: Iterate with follow-ups like "Add error handling". - Vim-Native: Keybindings like `Ctrl-l` for prompts, `Ctrl-p` to replace code. - Inline Commands: `!include` files, `!deploy` code, `!continue` long responses. Perfect for privacy-conscious devs or air-gapped environments. Try it: ``` pip install vimlm vimlm ```…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Track machine learning experiments right in your IDE

    2023 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Mi▲75

    30-line zero-config CLI agent for bug fixes + refactoring

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18WM

    Try it out! https://glhf.chat/ Hey HN! We’ve been working for the past few months on a website to let you easily run (almost) any open-source LLM on autoscaling GPU clusters. It’s free for now while we figure out how to price it, but we expect to be cheaper than most GPU offerings since we can run the models multi-tenant. Unlike Together AI, Fireworks, etc, we’ll run any model that the open-source vLLM project supports: we don’t have a hardcoded list. If you want a specific model or finetune, you don’t have to ask us for it: you can just paste the Hugging Face link in and…

    2024 · glhf.chat · its alternatives →

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    RLAMA▲138

    Open-Source RAG CLI for Ollama

    2025 · rlama.dev · its alternatives →

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    Best Coding Plans with open source models. No lock-in.

    Mar 2026 · openadapter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Proxy remote LLM API as Ollama and LM Studio, for using them in JetBrains AI Assistant - Stream29/ProxyAsLocalModel

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Integrate your custom code completion model into VS Code

    2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Search millions of open source repos without leaving the IDE

    2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Web extension to communicate with Ollama

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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