ecosystem.yaml

# Who shows up around LocalAI, and the evidence for each claim.
#
# Three lists, three different strengths of evidence. Keep them separate: a
# person fixing a typo is not their employer adopting the project, and saying
# so invites a takedown request.
#
#   contributors  someone with commits in this repository whose public GitHub
#                 profile names that employer. Evidence is the commit history
#                 plus a self-declared field, so the claim is about the person.
#   integrations  the other project's own repository or documentation
#                 references LocalAI. Checkable by anyone, needs no permission.
#   press         somebody else published a piece about LocalAI.
#
# Companies that want to say they use LocalAI add themselves to ADOPTERS.md at
# the repository root. That pull request is the permission, which is why the
# adopters list is kept apart from this file.
#
# Refreshed on 2026-07-31. Contribution counts are from the GitHub API.

contributors:
  note: "Engineers whose public profile names these employers have commits in the repository."
  # The landing page prints the names only, not the per-company counts: a "1
  # commit" stamp next to a large employer reads as weakness even though the
  # claim is exactly as true. The counts stay here because they are the
  # provenance for the list, and anyone re-checking it needs them.
  companies:
    - { name: "Microsoft",       people: 3, commits: 20 }
    - { name: "Spectro Cloud",   people: 3, commits: 11 }
    - { name: "VictoriaMetrics", people: 1, commits: 5 }
    - { name: "Acronis",         people: 1, commits: 5 }
    - { name: "BearingPoint",    people: 1, commits: 4 }
    - { name: "Zendesk",         people: 1, commits: 3 }
    - { name: "Nextcloud",       people: 1, commits: 2 }
    - { name: "Scaleway",        people: 1, commits: 2 }
    - { name: "Kubermatic",      people: 1, commits: 2 }
    - { name: "Avanade",         people: 1, commits: 2 }
    - { name: "IBM",             people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "Ableton",         people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "Atlassian",       people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "TikTok",          people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "CockroachDB",     people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "MediaTek",        people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "Samsung SDS",     people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "Ant Group",       people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "Deloitte",        people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "solo.io",         people: 1, commits: 1 }
    - { name: "Qonto",           people: 1, commits: 1 }
  academia:
    - MIT
    - University of Edinburgh
    - RMIT
    - Rochester Institute of Technology
    - University of Miami
    - USC

integrations:
  note: "These projects reference LocalAI in their own repository or documentation."
  # Admission rule: the project's OWN repository or official docs must name
  # LocalAI as a provider, backend or integration. A blog post saying so is not
  # enough, and neither is a generic "any OpenAI-compatible server" line that
  # never names us. Every entry below was opened and read before being added,
  # and the quote that justifies it is in the pull request that added it.
  #
  # Deliberately excluded after checking: LiteLLM, n8n, Home Assistant core,
  # BionicGPT, Semantic Kernel, Spring AI, Jan, CrewAI, Haystack, Onyx,
  # SillyTavern, Portkey and Kong all have zero mentions in their own repos.
  # PrivateGPT and Langflow name us only in passing comparisons or a tooltip.
  # Tools4AI has a LocalAI processor whose methods return null.
  projects:
    - name: AnythingLLM
      by: Mintplex Labs
      url: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
      what: "Runs LocalAI as a model provider for its chat and document workspaces."
    - name: LangChain
      url: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/providers/localai/
      what: "Documents LocalAI as a provider in the Python integrations."
    - name: LlamaIndex
      url: https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/llm/localai/
      what: "Documents LocalAI as an OpenAI-compatible LLM you can point it at."
    - name: Open WebUI
      url: https://docs.openwebui.com/getting-started/quick-start/connect-a-provider/starting-with-openai-compatible
      what: "Connects to LocalAI as an OpenAI-compatible local server."
    - name: Dify
      by: LangGenius
      url: https://marketplace.dify.ai/plugin/langgenius/localai
      what: "Ships an official LocalAI plugin for inference and embeddings."
    - name: LibreChat
      url: https://www.librechat.ai/docs/configuration/librechat_yaml/object_structure/speech
      what: "Uses LocalAI as a speech provider for text to speech."
    - name: RAGFlow
      by: InfiniFlow
      url: https://ragflow.io/docs/supported_models
      what: "Lists LocalAI as a model provider, and ships a driver for it including rerank."
    - name: Flowise
      by: FlowiseAI
      url: https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise
      what: "Offers LocalAI as a node for chat and embeddings in its visual builder."
    - name: Continue
      url: https://docs.continue.dev/customize/model-providers/top-level/openai
      what: "Lists LocalAI among the OpenAI-compatible providers the editor can target."
    - name: big-AGI
      url: https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI/blob/main/docs/config-local-localai.md
      what: "Adds LocalAI as a model source, with its own setup page and env vars."
    - name: K8sGPT
      by: CNCF Sandbox
      url: https://docs.k8sgpt.ai/reference/providers/backend/
      what: "Lists LocalAI as an analysis backend, alongside Bedrock and Azure OpenAI."
    - name: k8sgpt-operator
      by: k8sgpt-ai
      url: https://github.com/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt-operator
      what: "Sets LocalAI as the backend on the K8sGPT custom resource, with no OpenAI secret."
    - name: Nextcloud
      url: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/integration_openai
      what: "Points its text, image and speech features at a self-hosted LocalAI."
    - name: Frigate
      url: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/blob/dev/docs/docs/configuration/genai/config.md
      what: "Names LocalAI as a server for its generative AI features."
      # Present in the dev branch docs source; not yet on the published site.
    - name: Kairos
      url: https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos
      what: "Ships LocalAI as part of its immutable Linux distribution."
    - name: AIKit
      by: Sertac Ozercan
      url: https://github.com/sozercan/aikit
      what: "Builds fine-tuned models into images that serve through LocalAI."
    - name: langchain4j
      url: https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j
      what: "Ships a LocalAI module, so JVM applications can target it directly."
    - name: promptfoo
      url: https://www.promptfoo.dev/docs/providers/localai/
      what: "Provides a localai: prefix so evals run against chat, completion and embeddings."
    - name: Mods
      by: Charm
      url: https://github.com/charmbracelet/mods
      what: "Reads a LocalAI endpoint from its config, so the CLI pipes shell output to a local model."
    - name: TypingMind
      url: https://docs.typingmind.com/manage-and-connect-ai-models/local-ai
      what: "Documents pointing a custom model endpoint at a LocalAI server."
    - name: baibot
      by: etke.cc
      url: https://github.com/etkecc/baibot/blob/main/docs/providers.md
      what: "Has a first-class localai provider for text, speech to text and text to speech."
    - name: LLM Vision
      by: Home Assistant
      url: https://github.com/valentinfrlch/ha-llmvision
      what: "Lists LocalAI as a provider for analysing camera images and video feeds."
    - name: VoxInput
      url: https://github.com/richiejp/VoxInput
      what: "Sends desktop voice input to LocalAI for transcription and a realtime assistant."
    - name: Obsidian BMO Chatbot
      url: https://github.com/longy2k/obsidian-bmo-chatbot
      what: "Lists LocalAI as a self-hosted endpoint for the note-taking chat plugin."
    - name: ShellOracle
      url: https://github.com/djcopley/ShellOracle
      what: "Ships a LocalAI provider for turning natural language into shell commands."
    - name: QA-Pilot
      url: https://github.com/reid41/QA-Pilot
      what: "Runs its repository chat against a LocalAI base URL."

press:
  note: "Written about LocalAI, by people who do not work on it."
  # One card per outlet. SUSE published four posts, and listing them as four
  # entries made a single vendor look like the whole of the coverage; as one
  # series entry the repetition becomes the point instead of the problem.
  #
  # Every entry here has been opened and checked to confirm it is about this
  # project. Two earlier "coverage" links were not: a modelslab.com piece that
  # reviewed Frikallo/parakeet.cpp, an unrelated project of the same name, and
  # a snailtext.app benchmark of Parakeet through ONNX Runtime that never
  # mentioned LocalAI at all. Verify before adding.
  articles:
    - outlet: Pulumi
      title: "Deploy low-code LLM apps on AWS with Flowise and LocalAI"
      author: "Engin Diri"
      date: "2024-02-26"
      url: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/low-code-llm-apps-with-local-ai-flowise-and-pulumi/
      what: "A full EKS deployment, with LocalAI doing inference and no GPU in the cluster."
    - outlet: Semaphore
      title: "LocalAI: replacing OpenAI API with open-source"
      author: "Tomas Fernandez"
      date: "2023-12-19"
      url: https://semaphore.io/blog/localai
      what: "Swapping an existing OpenAI integration over to LocalAI, endpoint by endpoint."
    - outlet: Spectro Cloud
      title: "K8sGPT + LocalAI: unlock Kubernetes superpowers for free"
      author: "Tyler Gillson"
      date: "2023-04-29"
      url: https://www.spectrocloud.com/blog/k8sgpt-localai-unlock-kubernetes-superpowers-for-free
      what: "Cluster diagnosis through K8sGPT, answered by a model running on CPU."
    - outlet: SUSE
      title: "A four-part series on running AI locally"
      author: "Christian Huller"
      date: "2025-11-24"
      url: https://www.suse.com/c/running-ai-locally/
      what: "Install on openSUSE and drive it from VS Code, add your own documents with RAG, put a Confluence space behind a local model, then train a LoRA and serve it."