CATEGORY INTELLIGENCE / WORLDWIDE

Local LLMs.

Models and inference that run on your own machine.

Established red ocean

A crowded category without sustained search growth. Enter only with a concrete switching advantage.

Report dated · Method 1.0.2 · high evidence confidence.

Matching active GitHub projects
847
Search-interest growth
-73% · last 8 complete weeks versus the previous 8
Search term and region
local llm · Worldwide
Complete weekly observations
104

Why this classification

  • Median weekly search interest fell 73% across two consecutive eight-week windows.
  • 847 matching active repositories; the published dense-supply threshold is 50.

Source evidence

GitHub repository search · Collected 2026-09-15T16:35:44.775Z

topic:local-llm fork:false archived:false stars:>=5 pushed:>=2026-03-19

Google Trends search interest · Collected 2026-09-15T16:26:01.539Z

Leading repositories

Top 10 returned projects by stars
RepositoryStarsDescription
HKUDS/nanobot48,187Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps
mozilla-ai/llamafile25,970Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
LearningCircuit/local-deep-research9,094 ~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.
open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent6,925Self-hosted TypeScript agent runtime with durable approvals and verifiable run records. Own it, approve it, audit it.
MakazhanAlpamys/Soup6,584Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.
dograh-hq/dograh5,654Open source voice AI platform. Self-hosted alternative to Vapi and Retell. On Prem, BYOK across Speech to Speech or LLM/STT/TTS, with a visual workflow builder, MCP native and telephony support.
maziyarpanahi/openmed5,324Local-first healthcare AI: clinical NER & HIPAA PII de-identification that runs 100% on-device. 2,200+ medical models, 21 languages, Apple MLX + Python, no cloud, no patient data leaving your network. Apache-2.0
vinta/pangu.js4,822Opinionated paranoid text spacing in JavaScript, with on-device AI semantic judgment
langroid/langroid4,104Harness LLMs with Multi-Agent Programming
raullenchai/Rapid-MLX3,751The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.

Limits of this result

  • Google Trends measures relative search attention, not customers, revenue or willingness to pay.
  • Supply counts active repositories carrying the selected GitHub topic; unlabeled and closed-source competitors are outside this coverage.

Search interest measures attention, not paying customers. Classification thresholds are published heuristics and still require empirical calibration.

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