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Magnitude

Local LLM engine that auto-tunes GPU kernels for each model and chip

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What it is

A desktop app and inference engine for running open-weight language models locally, whether on Apple Silicon, an NVIDIA or AMD GPU, or a plain CPU. When a model is downloaded, it benchmarks kernel configurations on your chip and keeps the fastest one, and it adds speculative decoding, quantized KV cache, and shared prefix caches for concurrent sessions. Developers who run coding agents such as OpenCode, Codex, or Claude Code can connect them in one click or through an OpenAI-compatible API, and it can also run as a server for other machines on a network.

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7,224 GitHub stars.
7,224

Forks
497
Commits
1,390
Contributors
13
Language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
June 2026
First release
June 2026
Platforms
macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
LM Studio
Tags
  • llm-inference
  • local-ai
  • model-optimization
  • gpu-computing

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Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsLaunch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agentsSep 30, 2026 · 194 points · 97 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Magnitude: fast local agents Magnitude introduced an open-source inference engine that runs local AI agents up to 2x faster than llama.cpp on Mac, Linux, and…”Sep 30, 2026 · 6 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsMagnitude: A coding agent that runs on open modelsJun 20, 2026 · 5 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“magnitudedev / magnitude: Open source inference engine that tunes its kernels on your hardware to find the fastest way to run each model. 2x faster than…”Oct 16, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“YC-backed Magnitude claims 2x speedup over llama.cpp with an inference engine purpose-built for running AI agents locally—no more tradeoffs between…”Oct 2, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents”Sep 30, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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  • Bluesky“Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) - Self-optimizing inference engine for agents [Discussion]”Sep 30, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
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  • Bluesky“Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents Discussion”Sep 30, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“GitHub - magnitudedev/magnitude: Open source local inference engine. It runs models on the hardw...”Sep 11, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Magnitude removes a major source of friction from local coding agents. Install it with npm, let it profile the machine, choose and download an appropriate…”Aug 21, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)