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Best Open Source LLM Projects in 2026

Compare 30 leading open source LLM runtimes, serving engines, interfaces, frameworks, and developer tools. The shortlist combines GitHub adoption with current momentum, maintenance health, and recent repository activity.

Project data last synced 6h ago.
Shortlist mix
Framework
12
LLM tooling
7
Runtime & serving
7
Interface
4

Side-by-side signals

Leading LLM projects at a glance

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ProjectPrimary roleStarsWeeklyHealthLanguageUpdated
ECCFramework232.2K+52.6KStrong95/100JavaScript8h ago
hermes-agentFramework218.9K+74.1KStrong100/100Python6h ago
AutoGPTLLM tooling185.7K+174Strong90/100Python6h ago
ollamaRuntime & serving176.7K+450Strong90/100Go17h ago
prompts.chatLLM tooling166.2K+4.2KHealthy77/100HTML21h ago
transformersRuntime & serving162.8K+220Strong91/100Python7h ago
firecrawlLLM tooling154.5K+36.0KStrong82/100TypeScript6h ago
langflowInterface152.2K+4.2KStrong88/100Python6h ago
difyFramework149.8K+815Strong94/100TypeScript8h ago
open-webuiRuntime & serving146.4K+1.0KStrong95/100Python11h ago
langchainFramework142.3K+599Strong86/100Python7h ago
awesome-llm-appsFramework126.2K+16.4KHealthy76/100Python20h ago
llama.cppRuntime & serving121.3K+1.2KStrong95/100C++8h ago
generative-ai-for-beginnersInterface113.4K+2.7KHealthy70/100Jupyter Notebook1d ago
browser-useLLM tooling106.1K+12.7KStrong89/100Python6h ago

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Open source LLM projects with context

#01Framework

ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

232.2K stars95/100 healthJavaScript
#02Framework

hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

218.9K stars100/100 healthPython
#03LLM tooling

AutoGPT

AutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the tools, so that you can focus on what matters.

185.7K stars90/100 healthPython
#04Runtime & serving

ollama

Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.2, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.

176.7K stars90/100 healthGo
#05LLM tooling

prompts.chat

f.k.a. Awesome ChatGPT Prompts. Share, discover, and collect prompts from the community. Free and open source — self-host for your organization with complete privacy.

166.2K stars77/100 healthHTML
#06Runtime & serving

transformers

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

162.8K stars91/100 healthPython
#07LLM tooling

firecrawl

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥

154.5K stars82/100 healthTypeScript
#08Interface

langflow

Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.

152.2K stars88/100 healthPython
#09Framework

dify

Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.

149.8K stars94/100 healthTypeScript
#10Runtime & serving

open-webui

User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

146.4K stars95/100 healthPython
#11Framework

langchain

The agent engineering platform.

142.3K stars86/100 healthPython
#12Framework

awesome-llm-apps

100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source.

126.2K stars76/100 healthPython
#13Runtime & serving

llama.cpp

LLM inference in C/C++

121.3K stars95/100 healthC++
#14Interface

generative-ai-for-beginners

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

113.4K stars70/100 healthJupyter Notebook
#15LLM tooling

browser-use

🌐 Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease.

106.1K stars89/100 healthPython
#16Interface

LLMs-from-scratch

Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step

99.6K stars67/100 healthJupyter Notebook
#17LLM tooling

MoneyPrinterTurbo

利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流,根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow.

98.6K stars68/100 healthPython
#18Framework

TradingAgents

TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

94.1K stars67/100 healthPython
#19Framework

graphify

Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.

93.8K stars100/100 healthPython
#20LLM tooling

caveman

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

92.1K stars78/100 healthJavaScript
#21Framework

ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

87.8K stars69/100 healthJavaScript
#22Runtime & serving

vllm

A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

86.9K stars88/100 healthPython
#23Framework

PaddleOCR

Turn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

86.0K stars76/100 healthPython
#24Runtime & serving

ragflow

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

85.7K stars98/100 healthGo
#25LLM tooling

llm-course

Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.

81.1K stars50/100 healthMixed
#26Framework

deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

77.6K stars95/100 healthPython
#27Interface

Prompt-Engineering-Guide

🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents.

76.8K stars54/100 healthMDX
#28Framework

Pi Mono

AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI

75.4K stars95/100 healthTypeScript
#29Runtime & serving

Llamafactory

Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

73.5K stars77/100 healthPython
#30Framework

OpenHands

🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

73.2K stars88/100 healthPython

How to choose

Compare LLM projects within the same layer

Local runtime

Prioritize hardware support, quantization formats, setup friction, model compatibility, and offline operation.

Production serving

Evaluate throughput, latency, batching, observability, scaling, API compatibility, and accelerator support.

Application framework or UI

Check extension points, data connectors, authentication, deployment model, user experience, and upgrade cadence.

Quick answers

Open source LLM project questions

What counts as an open source LLM project?+

This page includes infrastructure and applications built around large language models: local runtimes, inference and serving engines, developer frameworks, model interfaces, evaluation tools, and other repositories with a clear LLM signal. It is not limited to model-weight repositories.

Which open source LLM project should I start with?+

Choose by the layer you need. A local runtime is useful for running models on a workstation, a serving engine targets production inference, an interface adds an end-user experience, and a framework helps developers build applications. Compare projects within the same role before choosing.

Do GitHub stars show which LLM project is best?+

Stars are useful evidence of awareness and adoption, but they are not a quality guarantee. Maintenance health, recent releases, hardware support, license, throughput, integrations, and your deployment constraints can be more important.

Can I use these projects commercially?+

It depends on both the software license and the license of the model you run. Review the upstream repository, model terms, dependencies, and hosted-service restrictions before commercial use.

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