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Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

Unsloth at a glance

Category
Inference and training
Website
unsloth.ai/docs

Is Unsloth growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Unsloth ranked #292 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #32 in Inference and training, with a momentum score of 32 out of 100. Its main package had 170.5k downloads that week, −7% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for Unsloth12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 2.5k, 2.3k, 803, 520, 432, 407, 422, 394, 606, 509, 377, 402 new stars, an average of 802 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for Unsloth
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 20262.5k
Aug 16, 20262.3k
Aug 23, 2026803
Aug 30, 2026520
Sep 6, 2026432
Sep 13, 2026407
Sep 20, 2026422
Sep 27, 2026394
Oct 4, 2026606
Oct 11, 2026509
Oct 18, 2026377
Oct 25, 2026402

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

Unsloth alternatives

Other LLM inference and training tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Inference and training ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1dsh-our-free-modeldsh-our-free-model is a dsh plugin that provides DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and other models without login, sign-up or API key.54.3k–
#2magpiemagpie is a local gateway and app that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI use any provider's model.26.9k–
#3StrataStrata is a local inference engine and app that runs large open models like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware with…37.1k–
#4edge0edge0 is an open-source streaming inference framework that runs large sparse mixture-of-experts models on consumer hardware by streaming…8.9k–
#5OmniRouteOmniRoute is an open-source AI gateway that routes requests across many model providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with…83.2k106k
#6CLIProxyAPICLIProxyAPI is a Go proxy server that exposes CLI coding accounts like Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI through OpenAI, Gemini and…57.1k–

All LLM inference and training tools, ranked

Unsloth FAQ

How popular is Unsloth?

Unsloth has 78.9k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 402 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 802 a week. Its main package had 170.5k downloads that week, −7% against its own 4-week average. That made it #32 among LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to Unsloth?

Other LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: dsh-our-free-model (#1), magpie (#2), Strata (#3), edge0 (#4), OmniRoute (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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