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24 alternatives to OpenDistil — Distillation at Scale

Distillation-as-a-Service infrastructure

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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    Open-source alternative to Midjourney

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Opengeni▲341

    Ship AI agents within minutes. Infrastructure for Agents

    Sep 2026 · opengeni.ai · its alternatives →

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    Distill▲200

    An interactive, visual journal for Machine Learning research

    2017 · distill.pub · its alternatives →

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    We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answered politically sensitive questions 7 SDs differently than expected, but the distilled model's…

    Jul 2026 · ctgt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dify.AI▲261

    Open-source platform for LLMOps, define your AI-native apps

    2023 · dify.ai · its alternatives →

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    Evoke▲317

    Run open source AI models on the cloud with our APIs

    2023 · evoke-app.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we built an open source model gateway. It's a single place to manage our own self hosted, frontier, and open source models in one place. It’s is rust native, built for concurrency, and implements all the config quirks across models and providers (streaming formats, tool calls, model parameters, rate limits, and different error behavior). The gateway adds under 1 ms for BYOK requests and under 2 ms when Experiential supplies the provider key. It has every major inference provider, and 1000+ models refreshed daily via a codex agent that opens a PR. Compared to other similar projects…

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cargoship▲117

    Curated open-source AI models for web developers

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Over the past few months, I have built a distillation toolkit that supports cross-tokenizer distillation (e.g., distilling from LLaMA to Qwen vocab, or others). This approach has worked well on reasoning datasets like AIME, and we’ve validated on models like Phi and Qwen. We’ve also integrated Modal for quick deployment (with $30/month credits to try it out). Would love any feedback! GitHub: https://github.com/agokrani/distillKitPlus Docs: https://distillkitplus.mintlify.app/

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source AI/ML data annotation platform for free

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Taking the mad science out of OKRs

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Build & scale AI \ agents as microservices with IAM

    Dec 2025 · agentfield.ai · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to access frontier AI models.

    Aug 2026 · tokenharbor.ai · its alternatives →

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    [deprecated] AI Gateway - core infrastructure stack for building production-ready AI Applications - pyadav/gateway

    2024 · 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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    Finyuus▲81

    A code-first language for durable, governed AI workflows

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Images to inference with no labeling (use foundation models to train supervised models). - autodistill/autodistill

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    dolv▲47

    Your AI operator for content, CRM, and GTM execution

    Aug 2026 · dolv.work · its alternatives →

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    I've been working on a platform that uses LLMs to build maintain and manage k8s clusters on any cloud. The system writes infra as code to your Github repos and automatically containerizes and scales any services (public or private). The goal is to give your average engineer a vercel-like deployment experience for any service in any language at minimal cost. We have humans involved at the moment auditing LLM outputs and keeping an eye on clusters. We are looking for folks who may be thinking about their first infra/devops hire. Just connect your github and your cloud provider. The system…

    2024 · milkinfrastructure.com · its alternatives →

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    The open source, end-to-end computer vision platform. Label, build, train, tune, deploy and automate in a unified platform that runs on any cloud and on-premises. - onepanelio/onepanel

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Teil▲13

    The Vercel for AI

    2025 · teil.dev · its alternatives →

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    AI control plane to schedule, run, debug, observe, and automate AI/ML workloads, agents, and sandboxes on your infra.

    2018 · polyaxon.com · its alternatives →

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    Call open-source generative AI models with low costs

    2024 · friendli.ai · its alternatives →

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    A single API for product integrations. Contribute to poozlehq/poozle development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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