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AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to LUML – an open source (Apache 2.0) MLOps/LLMOps platform

Hi HN, We built LUML (https://github.com/luml-ai/luml), an open-source (Apache 2.0) MLOps/LLMOps platform that covers experiments, registry, LLM tracing, deployments and so on. It separates the control plane from your data and compute. Artifacts are self-contained. Each model artifact includes all metadata (including the experiment snapshots, dependencies, etc.), and it stays in your storage (S3-compatible or Azure). File transfers go directly between your machine and storage, and execution happens on compute nodes you host and connect to LUML. We’d love you to try…

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.

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    Curated resources related to deploying LLMs into production

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We're Gabriel & Viraj, and we're excited to open source TensorZero. To be a little cheeky, TensorZero is an open-source platform that helps LLM applications graduate from API wrappers into defensible AI products. 1. Integrate our model gateway 2. Send metrics or feedback 3. Unlock compounding improvements in quality, cost, and latency It enables a data & learning flywheel for LLMs by unifying: • Inference: one API for all LLMs, with <1ms P99 overhead • Observability: inference & feedback → your database • Optimization: better prompts, models, inference strategies • Experimentation:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    From English prompt to deployed ML model with human approval

    Jun 2026 · orchestra-ml.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    StackML▲252

    Machine Learning platform in-browser, for creators

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    We just open-sourced Lume - a tool we built after hitting walls with existing virtualization options on Apple Silicon. No GUI, no complex stacks - just a single binary that lets you spin up macOS or Linux VMs via CLI or API. Why we built Lume: - Run native macOS VMs in 1 command, using Apple Virtualization.Framework: `lume run macos-sequoia-vanilla:latest` - Prebuilt images on https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ghcr.io&#x2F;trycua (macOS, Ubuntu on ARM) - API server to manage VMs programmatically `POST &#x2F;lume&#x2F;vms` - A python SDK on github.com&#x2F;trycua&#x2F;pylume Run prebuilt macOS images in just…

    2025 · 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 &#x2F;v1&#x2F;chat&#x2F;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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    Hey HN, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan from Laminar (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lmnr.ai), an open-source observability and analytics platform for complex LLM apps. It’s designed to be fast, reliable, and scalable. The stack is RabbitMQ for message queues, Postgres for storage, Clickhouse for analytics, Qdrant for semantic search - all powered by Rust. How is Laminar different from the swarm of other “LLM observability” platforms? On the observability part, we’re focused on handling full execution traces, not just LLM calls. We built a Rust ingestor for OpenTelemetry (Otel) spans with GenAI…

    2024 · github.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 →

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    Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;traceloop&#x2F;openllmetry. There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs. It’s still early in the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZenML▲84

    Create reproducible machine learning pipelines

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Arch▲314

    Hey HN — I’m Adil from Katanemo (with Salman, Shuguang, and Meiyu) We previously shared an early version of this project as ArchGW. Based on customer feedback, the scope expanded from “LLM routing and model access” into something broader: delivery infrastructure for agentic applications. We renamed it to Plano and reworked the architecture accordingly. The problem On-the-ground AI practitioners will tell you that calling an LLM is not the hard part. The really hard part is delivering agentic applications to production quickly and reliably, then iterating without rewriting system code every…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZenML 🙏: One AI Platform from Pipelines to Agents. https://zenml.io. - zenml-io/zenml

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy LLMs to production in one command. VeloxML CLI is an open-source engine that provisions optimized serverless infrastructure directly in your own AWS/GCP account - paguasmar/veloxml-deploy

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I am the founder of Tensorlake. Prototyping LLM applications have become a lot easier, building decision making LLM applications that work on constantly updating data is still very challenging in production settings. The systems engineering problems that we have seen people face are - 1. Reliably process ingested content in real time if the application is sensitive to freshness of information. 2. Being able to bring in any kind of model, and run different parts of the pipeline on GPUs and CPUs. 3. Fault Tolerance to ingestion spike, compute infrastructure failure. 4. Scaling compute,…

    2024 · getindexify.ai · its alternatives →

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    G'day, HN! I'm one of the maintainers of `llm`. I've been working alongside a trusty group of contributors to bring this project to life, and we're now at a point where we're ready to share it with the world. Large language models (LLMs) are taking the computing world by storm due to their emergent abilities that allow them to perform a wide variety of tasks, including translation, summarization, code generation, and even some degree of reasoning. However, the ecosystem around LLMs is still in its infancy, and it can be difficult to get started with these models. `llm` is a one-stop shop for…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Lume is an open-source CLI for running macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. Since launch (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42908061), we've been using it to run AI agents in isolated macOS environments. We needed VMs that could set themselves up, so we built that. Here's what's new in 0.2: *Unattended Setup* – Go from IPSW to a fully configured VM without touching the keyboard. We built a VNC + OCR system that clicks through macOS Setup Assistant automatically. No more manual setup before pushing to a registry: lume create my-vm --os macos --ipsw latest…

    Jan 2026 · cua.ai · its alternatives →

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    UnionML▲77

    The easiest way to build and deploy ML microservices

    2022 · union.ai · its alternatives →

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    Built this for my LLM workflows - needed searchable, persistent memory that wouldn't blow up storage costs. I also wanted to use it locally for my research. It's a content-addressed storage system with block-level deduplication (saves 30-40% on typical codebases). I have integrated the CLI tool into most of my workflows in Zed, Claude Code, and Cursor, and I provide the prompt I'm currently using in the repo. The project is in C++ and the build system is rough around the edges but is tested on macOS and Ubuntu 24.04.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LUMLITS▲80

    Engineers social network platform

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Build and fine-tune custom LLMs on your private data

    2023 · ludwig.ai · its alternatives →

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    If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS&#x2F;TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;traceloop&#x2F;openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've built this to make it easy to host your own infra for lightweight VMs at large scale. Intended for exec of AI-generated code, for CICD runners, or for off-chain AI DApps. Mainly to avoid Docker-in-Docker dangers and mess. Super easy to use with CLI &#x2F; Python SDK, friendly to AI engs who usually don't like to mess with VM orchestration and networking too much. Defense-in-depth philosophy. Would love to get feedback (and contributors: clear & exciting roadmap!), thx

    2025 · github.com · 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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