Local LLM
llm
Access large language models from the command-line
★ 12.6k starsApache-2.0
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kotaemon is an open-source local llm project by Cinnamon (Cinnamon/kotaemon on GitHub). It has 25,801 GitHub stars and 2,157 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 14 July 2026.
One binary or app gets you a working local model setup.
Pick a size that fits your RAM/VRAM; smaller models run on laptops.
Use the built-in UI, or point OpenAI-compatible clients at it.
Airplane mode works — your prompts never leave the device.
Prompts and documents stay on your hardware, always.
RAG, tools, and agents build on the same base.
Smart compression runs big models on modest hardware.
Works on planes, in basements, behind firewalls.
Swap between hundreds of open models freely.
Existing tools plug in by changing one URL.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon.git
cd kotaemonEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at Cinnamon/kotaemon with 2,157 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
Apache 2.0 licensed — commercial use allowed with attribution.
8B models run on 16GB RAM; bigger models want a real GPU.
A recent 8–32B instruct model is the sweet spot for most machines.
Yes — with no network calls, there's nothing to leak.
Access large language models from the command-line
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