// local-llm · Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid

maid

Maid is a free and open source application for interfacing with llama.cpp models locally, and with Anthropic, DeepSeek, Ollama, Mistral and OpenAI models rem…

★ 2.7k stars⑂ 296 forksMITupdated 2026-09
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// project facts

Project facts

maid is an open-source local llm project by Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence (Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid on GitHub). It has 2,713 GitHub stars and 296 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 30 September 2026.

GitHub stars
2,713
Forks
296
License
MIT
Last updated on GitHub
30 September 2026
Category
Local LLM
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Install the runtime

    One binary or app gets you a working local model setup.

  2. Download a model

    Pick a size that fits your RAM/VRAM; smaller models run on laptops.

  3. Chat or integrate

    Use the built-in UI, or point OpenAI-compatible clients at it.

  4. Go private

    Airplane mode works — your prompts never leave the device.

// features

Why people love it

Extensible

RAG, tools, and agents build on the same base.

Quantized efficiency

Smart compression runs big models on modest hardware.

Offline capable

Works on planes, in basements, behind firewalls.

Model choice

Swap between hundreds of open models freely.

OpenAI-compatible APIs

Existing tools plug in by changing one URL.

Document chat

Ask questions over your PDFs, notes, and codebases.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Step 1 — Clone the repo

    Download the source and move into the project folder.

    git clone https://github.com/Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid.git
    cd maid
  2. Step 2 — Check the README

    Every project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.

    cat README.md | head -60
  3. Step 3 — Run it

    Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.

    # see README for the exact launch command
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains maid?

It is an open-source project at Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid with 296 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.

Is maid free for commercial use?

MIT licensed — use it commercially, no strings attached.

Is it really private?

Yes — with no network calls, there's nothing to leak.

Are local models as good as GPT-4?

Close on many tasks now; frontier cloud models still lead on hard reasoning.

What hardware do I need?

8B models run on 16GB RAM; bigger models want a real GPU.

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