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~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.
LLM inference in C/C++
llama.cpp has the larger GitHub footprint with 109.6K stars.
llama.cpp is currently growing faster at +1.2K stars this week.
llama.cpp has the stronger health score at 100/100.
| Signal | Local Deep Research | llama.cpp |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 7.2K | 109.6K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +1.2K |
| Health score | 75 | 100 |
| Contributors | 49 | 1.7K |
| Commits per week | 110.8 | 86.2 |
| Open issues | 265 | 1.6K |
| Language | Python | C++ |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 17h ago | 16h ago |
| Last release | v1.6.9 | b9113 |
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