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LocalAI is the open source AI runtime: a small core that speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, with each inference backend added only when a model needs it. It runs text, vision, speech, sound, images, video, embeddings, reranking, and autonomous agents on hardware you control, from a CPU laptop to a distributed GPU cluster.

New here? Read the [Overview]({{% relref "overview" %}}) for what LocalAI is and how the pieces fit together, then follow the [Quickstart]({{% relref "getting-started/quickstart" %}}).

docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest

Sections

• [Getting started]({{% relref "getting-started" %}}) - install LocalAI, run your first model, call the API, and fix the common startup problems.
• [Features]({{% relref "features" %}}) - every capability, grouped by modality: text, agents, audio, vision, image and video, retrieval, distributed inference, and model management.
• [Advanced]({{% relref "advanced" %}}) - model configuration, VRAM management, reverse proxies and TLS, and the rest of the fine-grained control surface.
• [Operations]({{% relref "operations" %}}) - running and governing an instance: middleware, cloud and MITM proxies, backend monitoring.
• [Reference]({{% relref "reference" %}}) - architecture, CLI flags, the compatibility table, API and runtime errors, system info, and binaries.
• [FAQ]({{% relref "faq" %}}) - short answers to the questions that come up most often.

Also useful

• [Integrations]({{% relref "integrations" %}}) - projects and tools built on top of LocalAI.
• [News]({{% relref "whats-new" %}}) - where release notes live.
• Model gallery - browse the models you can install with one click.
• GitHub and Discord - report an issue or ask a question.