Model inference tools
Tools that run trained AI models so you can use them, on your own hardware or a server. This page lists 12 model inference tools; the latest additions are kimi-k3-in-c, FreeToken and vLLM. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- ComfyUI Build image, video and audio AI workflows by linking nodes
Build image, video, audio and 3D generation workflows by connecting blocks on a graph; for creators who want control, on Windows, Linux or macOS.
- kimi-k3-in-c Run a 2.78-trillion-parameter model on 8 GB of RAM
Get text answers from the huge Kimi K3 AI model using one CPU and no graphics card.
- FreeToken Run large open AI models on your gaming PC
Run big open-weight AI models on your own gaming PC and chat with them.
- llama.cpp Run AI language models locally on almost any computer
llama.cpp is a C/C++ program with no external dependencies for running language models, including models that read images, on hardware such as laptop CPUs, GPUs and phones.
- Transformers Load and run almost any open AI model from one Python library
The Python library that defines how open models are written down, covering text, images, audio, video and combinations of them, for both running a model and training one.
- colibri Run huge mixture-of-experts models by streaming them from disk
An inference engine written in plain C that tries to run very large models — hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters — on hardware that could not normally hold them.
- AirLLM Run very large language models on a small GPU
Load a big open language model from Hugging Face and generate text on a GPU with only a few GB of memory.
- Ollama Chat with AI models on your own computer
Ollama lets you choose an AI model and chat with it on your own computer.
- vLLM Serve language model answers to applications
Run supported language models and serve their answers to applications with a model-serving library for developers.
- openjev Score whether one statement follows from another, in any task
A cross-encoder — a model that reads two pieces of text together and judges their relationship — built by further training Qwen3.5.
- Swift-Qwen3.8-27B Get answers from a 27B model with less thinking-out-loud
Get answers from a 27-billion-parameter reasoning model that spends less time thinking to itself before replying.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL Use Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6's efficiency-balanced model for agent work
Give one model text, images, video or audio, with up to a million tokens of context such as a whole code repository or a long tool log, and get text back for coding and agent work.
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