Run or access AI models
Running open AI models on your own computer or server, or reaching many hosted models through one API, to build with them, compare them or keep your data private.
Tools that achieve this
- Core fit
Workers AI is a serverless inference platform that runs many hosted AI models through one API.
Cloudflare Workers AI brings
- Image Understanding
- Knowledge Retrieval (RAG)
- Multi-Model Access
- Speech to Text
- Text Generation
- Text to Image
- Text to Speech
- Tool Use
- Translation
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Jan runs open models locally or connects to cloud models in one app.
Jan brings
- Code Generation
- Text Generation
- Tool Use
- Web Search
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A desktop app for downloading and running open AI models locally on your own computer, with privacy as a focus.
LM Studio brings
- Agent Creation
- Code Generation
- Computer Use
- Speech to Text
- Text Generation
- Workflow Automation
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Ollama lets you download and run open AI models on your own computer or call models through its API.
Ollama brings
- Code Generation
- Image Understanding
- Multi-Model Access
- Text Generation
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Open WebUI is a self-hosted platform for running AI models locally or in the cloud on your own hardware.
Open WebUI brings
- Conversational QA
- Document QA
- Sharing & Publishing
- Tool Use
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Developers who want to reach many hosted AI models through one API should see OpenRouter.
OpenRouter brings
- Multi-Model Access
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People who want many AI models in one place should see Poe, which hosts models from several labs side by side.
Poe brings
- Conversational QA
- Multi-Model Access
- Text Generation
- Text to Image
- Text to Video
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People who want to run AI models locally on their own computer can use AnythingLLM, which picks and runs models on device.
AnythingLLM brings
- Conversational QA
- Document QA
- Meeting Summarization
- Meeting Transcription
- Speech to Text
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