Magnitude
Apache-2.0 local inference desktop+CLI — consumer profiler for agents
AI Agents / Local Inference · Apache-2.0 · 7.2k
Reviewed 2026-09-30 · last push 2026-10-19 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
Apache-2.0 (magnitudedev/magnitude). Consumer-hardware inference with hardware profiling, tok/s estimates before download, speculative decoding, and one-click wiring to Pi / OpenCode / Claude Code / Cline / Codex and friends. Desktop + CLI; free offline path once models are local. Download from magnitude.dev.
The Catch
Do NOT install bare npm/crates `magnitude` — name collision with unrelated packages; get the product from magnitude.dev (and the magnitudedev org), not a random registry hit. ★5,479 in about 21 weeks (~261 a week): judge it on the profiler + agent wiring, not the star count. Vs Ollama / llmfit / vLLM: Ollama is the simple local runner; llmfit sizes models to hardware; vLLM is throughput serving — Magnitude’s catch is consumer profiler + agent harness wiring in one desktop/CLI.
Verdict
Apache local inference when agents need hardware-aware models on the desk — download magnitude.dev; ignore registry name twins and the ★ spike.
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