Every option in the catalog for when you need to run a model on your own machine, fully offline — 12 local LLM runners, 12 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.
12tools listed
12free or freemium
11with no paid plan at all
1sub-categories covered
Best Free Local LLM runners — straight answers
What are the best free local LLM runners?
Flocci AI Tools lists 12 of them, ordered free tiers first: AnythingLLM, GPT4All, Jan, KoboldCpp and llama.cpp. Every one of them is free or has a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
Which of these are completely free?
11 on this page are marked fully free with no paid plan at all: AnythingLLM, GPT4All, Jan, KoboldCpp and llama.cpp. The remaining 1 are freemium, trial or paid, and each is labelled with its exact tier so nothing surprises you at sign-up.
How is this list ordered?
Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.