AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LLM-CLI
Cloud and local LLM AI assistant for the command line
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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LM Studio▲209Discover, download, and run local LLMs (incl. DeepSeek R1)
2025 · lmstudio.ai · its alternatives →
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LLMWare▲358Dev tool to make AI apps to deploy privately or locally
2024 · llmware.ai · its alternatives →
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LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …
2025 · simonwillison.net · 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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MiniMax CLI▲145Give your AI agents native multimodal capabilities
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’ve built Open Codex, a fully local, open-source alternative to OpenAI’s Codex CLI. My initial plan was to fork their project and extend it. I even started doing that. But it turned out their code has several leaky abstractions, which made it hard to override core behavior cleanly. Shortly after, OpenAI introduced breaking changes. Maintaining my customizations on top became increasingly difficult. So I rewrote the whole thing from scratch using Python. My version is designed to support local LLMs. Right now, it only works with phi-4-mini (GGUF) via…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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agents-cli▲145The CLI your coding agent uses to ship agents
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Harbor▲75CLI + companion App to spin up complete local LLM stacks
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI CLI▲17ai tool sends your requests to a local LLM and executes directly returned actions in your shell. Source is single C file - vkataev/ai-cli
2025 · github.com · 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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Current AI-assisted CLI tools are often part of larger systems and work better on Linux. I built llm-term to address these. It's a Rust-based tool that compiles into a single binary file. You only need to download the binary, add it to your PATH, and configure your OpenAI key to get started. While llm-term offers an option for gpt-4o, it works great with gpt-4o-mini. So it's not costly. I appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build local LLMs using top data science libraries
2023 · its alternatives →
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Mi▲7530-line zero-config CLI agent for bug fixes + refactoring
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Command-line interface for the Arcane Engine. Contribute to arc-eng/cli development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Talk to multiple LLMs thru a unified API
2025 · ai-gateway.dev · its alternatives →
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