cactus alternatives

Tools that could take the place of cactus, ranked by the stacks builders put them in rather than by stars alone.

Other runtimes in the runchr registry that do the work of cactus — a tool somebody pairs with it ranks above a more popular stranger. Read the cactus page or browse every runtimes.

  • mlx-serveRuntimesdoes the same work2.4k

    Native local LLM inference server for Apple Silicon with OpenAI and Anthropic

  • OllamaRuntimessame type186.2k

    Run open models locally and serve an OpenAI-compatible API.

  • llama.cppRuntimessame type133.6k

    Run quantised models locally, with an OpenAI-compatible server.

  • vLLMRuntimessame type96.5k

    A high-throughput inference and serving engine for GPUs.

  • rtkRuntimessame type85.8k

    CLI proxy that compresses shell command output before it reaches an LLM.

  • caddyRuntimessame type78.9k

    Extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS.

  • rayRuntimessame type44.2k

    Distributed AI compute engine for scaling ML training, tuning, and serving.

  • llamafileRuntimessame type26.6k

    Single-file executables that run LLMs and speech-to-text locally.

  • TensorRT-LLMRuntimessame type15.0k

    Optimized inference runtime for LLMs and visual gen models on NVIDIA GPUs.

  • OpenLLMRuntimessame type12.6k

    Self-host open-source LLMs as OpenAI-compatible API endpoints.

  • openvinoRuntimessame type11.1k

    OpenVINO toolkit optimizes and deploys deep learning inference across Intel

  • kimi-k3-in-cRuntimessame type11.0k

    Portable C99 inference engine running Kimi K3 on a single CPU in 8 GB RAM.