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litellm is an open-source local llm project by BerriAI (BerriAI/litellm on GitHub). It has 60,091 GitHub stars and 12,000 forks, is released under the Custom license, and was last updated on GitHub on 3 October 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.
Large language models drive its smartest features, locally or via API.
Existing tools plug in by changing one URL.
Ask questions over your PDFs, notes, and codebases.
Pay nothing per token, ever.
Prompts and documents stay on your hardware, always.
RAG, tools, and agents build on the same base.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm.git
cd litellmEvery 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 BerriAI/litellm with 12,000 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
Licensed under Custom — check the repo for commercial-use terms.
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.
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