AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to QikLM

The easiest way to manage local and remote AI

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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   I made an app to use local AI as daily driver▲637

   Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver.…

   2024 · recurse.chat · its alternatives →

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   Apollo AI▲280

   Run local models like Llama on iOS

   2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook▲673

   Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM . Contribute to antimatter15/alpaca.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Oxlo.ai▲378

   Scale across AI models without scaling your bill

   Jun 2026 · oxcode.ai · 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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   Axis One▲78

   I’ve been building a small hardware box that runs local LLMs like Mistral, Qwen and Llama, and exposes an OpenAI compatible API on your local network. There’s no cloud, no login system and no telemetry. I built it because a lot of small firms want ChatGPTbstyle tools but can’t use cloud AI for privacy or compliance reasons, and most don’t want to deal with GPU servers, drivers, Docker or model configs. The aim is to make local AI feel as simple as plugging in a router. Right now the box boots into a very simple web UI where you choose a model and start using it. The API follows the OpenAI…

   Nov 2025 · axis-one-psi.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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   LM Studio▲209

   Discover, download, and run local LLMs (incl. DeepSeek R1)

   2025 · lmstudio.ai · its alternatives →

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   SelfHostLLM▲134

   A simple calculator that estimates how many concurrent requests your GPU can handle for a given LLM, with shareable results.

   2025 · selfhostllm.org · its alternatives →

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   Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22)▲38

   I wanted to run AI from inside the JVM. I started out with the standard REST sidecar, ripped that out to use Project Panama (Foreign Function & Memory API) in the new JDK versions to interface directly with llama.cpp. I still wasn't happy with how that functioned, so I built libargus.cc to get a clean ABI to expose a structured API up in the JVM landscape. It still uses Project Panama to interface directly with llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, and ggml compute graphs. I have zero-allocation on the hot paths, memory segments for prompts and tokens are allocated once inside confined Arenas. Raw…

   Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials▲128

    Hello! I’m So Tokumaru ( https://tokumaru.work ), high school student from Japan working on ways to leverage large language models (LLMs) for K-12 programming education. Recently, I built a project called "TutoriaLLM," a self-hosted application designed to support educators and students through a multi-modal LLM that offers guided tutorials. TutoriaLLM integrates voice (voice-to-voice) and text-based AI interactions into Blockly, a block editor widely known for its use in Scratch. It enables server-side code execution and allows students to test their code directly in Minecraft…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SuperHQ▲95

    Hey HN, I built SuperHQ, an app that lets you run coding agents in local sandboxes (powered by Shuru). No custom UI wrapping the agents, they run as CLI/TUI like they were designed to. It just provides you the tools most of us (okay, maybe just me?) needed for running multiple coding agents in parallel without worrying about breaking your system or work environment. Each agent runs in its own microVM. You mount your projects in, writes go to a tmpfs overlay so your host is never touched, and you get a unified diff view to accept or discard changes. API keys never enter the sandbox, they…

    Apr 2026 · superhq.ai · its alternatives →

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    RunAnywhere▲119

    Ollama but for mobile, with a cloud fallback

    2025 · runanywhere.ai · its alternatives →

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    Teal – a serverless VM and programming language▲63

    Onicplay merupakan salah satu login terbaru platform situs legendaris dengan link alternatif terbaru yang ada di Indonesia saat ini.

    2020 · condense9.com · its alternatives →

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    Running LLMs in one line of Python without Docker▲68

    Hello Hacker News! We're Yangqing, Xiang and JJ from lepton.ai. We are building a platform to run any AI models as easy as writing local code, and to get your favorite models in minutes. It's like container for AI, but without the hassle of actually building a docker image. We built and contributed to some of the world's most popular AI software - PyTorch 1.0, ONNX, Caffe, etcd, Kubernetes, etc. We also managed hundreds of thousands of computers in our previous jobs. And we found that the AI software stack is usually unnecessarily complex - and we want to change that. Imagine if you are a…

    2023 · lepton.ai · its alternatives →

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    Local LLMs by Sttabot AI▲112

    Build local LLMs using top data science libraries

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Cloudways Managed AI Agents▲84

    Skip the setup and run OpenClaw & Hermes, fully managed

    Aug 2026 · cloudways.com · its alternatives →

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    NobodyWho▲106

    Hey, Hello, we are the team behind NobodyWho; an open-source plugin that embeds large language models functionality inside Unity and Godot games - completely locally and offline. We try to make it as easy and user friendly as possible to use our plugin, so feel free to create an issue on our GitHub if you have any inconveniences - and we will try to improve it! So why might this interest you: - Written in Rust with llama.cpp bindings and optional GPU back-ends (Vulkan / Metal) for fast inference. - Drop-in nodes / components: add a model asset and a chat or embedding node and get a…

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Byte▲8

    Your local AI model or API key in a customizable llm chatbox

    Jul 2026 · get-byte.app · its alternatives →

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    Harbor▲75

    CLI + companion App to spin up complete local LLM stacks

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Localportal▲53

    Make your local machine global

    2023 · localportal.io · its alternatives →

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    BrowserAI Chat▲13

    Chat with LLMs like Deepseek R1 locally inside browser

    2025 · chat.browserai.dev · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight AI gateway to 100+ models, in TS▲37

    We are Rohit & Ayush, we created Portkey this year March to help tackle some challenges we had seen while building apps based on GPT3, 3.5, 4, and the DevOps principles we brought to the scene to help tackle them. We believe, a solid, performant, and reliable gateway lays the foundation to help build the next level of LLM apps. It decreases excessive reliance on any one company and takes the focus back to building instead of spending time fixing the nitty gritties of different providers and making them work together. Features: Blazing fast (9.9x faster) with a tiny footprint (~45kb…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Run LLaMa2 on the Browser with Ggml.js▲23

    You can now build serverless AI inference web application with ggml.js's LM backends.

    2023 · rahuldshetty.github.io · its alternatives →

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    I built a Python script uses AI to organize files, runs 100% locally▲11

    I wanted a file management tool that actually understands what my files are about. Previous projects like LlamaFS (https://github.com/iyaja/llama-fs) aren't 100% local and require an AI API. So, I created a Python script that leverages AI to organize local files, running entirely on your device for complete privacy. It uses Google Gemma2 2B and llava-v1.6-vicuna-7b models for processing. Note: You won't need any API key and internet connection to run this project, it runs models entirely on your device. What it does: - Scans a specified input directory for files -…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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