🏠 Best Local and open-source models AI Tools

Open-source docs, whiteboard, and AI workspace

Free for personal/local and FOSS self-host; Team about $10/seat/mo; Enterprise custom

Fully open language models with open data, code, and weights

Free open weights; license terms apply; hardware or hosting costs may apply

Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal

Free open-source (Apache-2.0); bring your own LLM API keys or local models

AMD's open-source app for running local AI agents on Ryzen AI PCs

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

A desktop or Docker app for chatting with your own documents using local or cloud AI models

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

Local-first notes and objects with optional AI-friendly workflows

Free plan with limited remote storage; paid plans about $4–$16/mo depending on tier; self-host options noted

Open-source Notion-style workspace with AI options

Personal free at $0/mo; Pro about $16/member/mo billed annually ($20 monthly); self-host options available

Apple's open-source framework for running models on Apple silicon

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

Open-source platform to build AI agents and workflows

Community Edition free to self-host; Cloud plans from about $590/workspace/year and $1590/workspace/year; Enterprise available

Pay-per-use APIs for image, video, and model inference

Usage-based serverless and GPU pricing (e.g. H100 listed from about $2.49/hr); model endpoints billed per unit

Google's lightweight open models that run on laptops, phones, and servers

Free open weights; license terms apply; hardware or hosting costs may apply

Open-source local chat models on any device

Free open-source (MIT); optional Nomic cloud products priced separately

Free chat UI for open models from Hugging Face

Free to use via Hugging Face chat (subject to Hugging Face account and fair-use limits)

IBM's open, enterprise-ready Granite models under Apache 2.0

Free open weights; license terms apply; hardware or hosting costs may apply

A self-hosted photo and video library with machine-learning search and face recognition

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

Open-source AI email assistant for triage and drafts

7-day free trial on paid plans from about $18/user/mo; open-source self-host option available

Intel's open-source toolkit for fast local AI on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

A desktop app that lets you chat with AI models that run fully offline on your own computer

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

A self-hosted bookmark app that saves links, notes and images and tags them with AI automatically

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

One-file local runner for GGUF models with a built-in web UI

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

A self-hosted, ChatGPT-style chat app that connects to many AI providers in one place

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

The fast engine that many local AI apps use to run language models on everyday hardware

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

Mozilla's single-file executables that run models anywhere

Free and open source; self-hosting, model or API costs may apply

Run local LLMs on your computer for free

Free $0 for local LLMs on your machine; Bionic+ about $20/mo; Pro about $100/mo for higher hosted usage