LocalAI vs RikkaHub
LocalAI and RikkaHub are both local AI software. LocalAI is open source under MIT, with 50k GitHub stars. RikkaHub is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 8.6k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick LocalAI when
- You want a drop-in local replacement for OpenAI's API covering more than just text.
- Pick RikkaHub when
- You want one Android app for chatting with several AI providers using your own API keys.
Side by side
A self-hosted server with an OpenAI-compatible API for running local LLMs, image, audio and embedding models on many backends, CPU or GPU.
A native Android chat app for LLMs that switches between providers such as OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek and OpenRouter, with MCP tools and agents.
Many backends mean large images and uneven quality across model types.
You manage and pay for each provider's API keys; AGPL licensed.
Usable (both)
Self-hosted server
Mobile app
Go, C++ and Python
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and TypeScript
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
50k GitHub stars
8.6k GitHub stars
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v4.12.1.
Young: started 20 months ago, latest release 3.1.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.