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llama.cpp vs Unsloth
llama.cpp or Unsloth? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Command line, Choice of models, Self-hosted, API
- Only Unsloth states: Chat about your code, Runs commands, Search over your data
llama.cpp
Open-source C/C++ software for running large language and vision-language models locally or in the cloud.
Plans
Free
Free
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
- $4 per user/month
- Access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- Required reviewers
Enterprise
- Starting at $21 per user/month
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Repository rules
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF” source
- Choice of models — “llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF” source
- Self-hosted — “locally and in the cloud.” source
- API — “Launch OpenAI-compatible API server” source
Latest updates
- b11160
Adds Vulkan int8 cooperative-matrix quantized matmul for AMD RDNA3 and RDNA4, including q8_0, q4_1, q5_0, and q5_1.
- b11159
Handles misalignment in conv_2d and conv_3d.
- b11158
Unsloth
Unsloth runs and fine-tunes AI models locally through a free, open-source desktop app, web UI, and code-based tools.
Plans
Free
Free
- Open-source
- Supports Mistral and Gemma
- Supports Llama 1, 2, and 3
- Supports 4 bit and 16 bit LoRA
unsloth Pro
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- 2.5x number of GPUs faster than FA2
- 20% less memory than OSS
- Enhanced MultiGPU support
- Up to 8 GPUs support
unsloth Enterprise
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- 32x number of GPUs faster than FA2
- Up to 30% accuracy
- 5x faster inference
- Full training
- Multi-node support
- Customer support
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Chat about your code — “Download a model and start chatting in minutes.” source
- Runs commands — “Execute Bash and Python in a secure sandbox so models can run code, test results and complete real tasks locally.” source
- Command line — “then run unsloth start claude .” source
- Choice of models — “Discover, manage and download the right quantization for your device from the built-in model hub.” source
- Self-hosted — “Open-source. Free. 100% Local.” source
- API — “Unsloth also exposes an OpenAI-compatible API, so existing apps, scripts and SDKs can connect to your local models through a familiar interface.” source
- Search over your data — “Private web search, deep research, RAG, MCP + exports (NVFP4, GGUF)” source
Latest updates
- Qwen-Image-2.1 + Skills (Qwen-Image-2.1)
Adds local Qwen-Image-2.1, custom Agent Skills, draggable chats, faster reasoning blocks, and Linux update and installation options.
- Qwen-Image-2.1 + Skills (Qwen-Image-2.1)
Adds local Qwen-Image-2.1, custom Agent Skills, draggable chats, faster reasoning blocks, and Linux update and installation options.
- Docker + Multi User + AMD Support (v0.1.810-beta)
Adds a Docker image with NVIDIA and AMD support, multi-user accounts, diffusion support, ARM64 Windows CUDA support, and RDNA1/2 support.