Open source alternatives to Msty

By GitHub stars it is Ollama, with 186,815 stars and a commit on 13 Nov. Choose Ollama when you want to run open models locally with one command and an API that other apps can call. Next come AnythingLLM (68,225 stars) and Cherry Studio (53,460 stars).

Yes. The code of all 6 is public under MIT, AGPL 3.0 or Apache 2.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Msty for. Choose Jan when you want an open source desktop app for local and cloud models whose code you can read and build yourself. Choose Cherry Studio when you want an open source desktop workspace for local and cloud models that you can inspect and fork.

5 of the 6: Ollama, AnythingLLM, Cherry Studio, Jan and KoboldAI. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

5 of the 6 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Ollama, AnythingLLM, Cherry Studio and Jan. The quietest is LLMWare, last changed on 1 Oct. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

MIT (2), AGPL 3.0 (2), Apache 2.0 (2). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely. GPL and AGPL ask you to share your changes under the same licence when you give the software to others, and AGPL also counts letting people use it over a network.

The hosting. Msty's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.