About Local AI Stack
About the Local AI Stack documentation-backed reference site and its truthfulness rules.
Reference scope
Local AI Stack is a documentation-backed beginner guide for people who want to understand local AI tools, hardware limits, privacy boundaries, and setup tradeoffs without hype.
The goal is not to tell everyone to run everything locally. The goal is to help readers make a realistic choice: when local AI is worth trying, which tool to start with, what hardware limits matter, what privacy caveats remain, and when a cloud tool may still be the more practical option.
Start with the RAM/VRAM Calculator, then read Ollama vs LM Studio, then choose the install guide that matches your first tool.
If you plan to use sensitive files, read Is Local AI Actually Private? before uploading anything.
What this site includes
- - A functional RAM/VRAM calculator.
- - Typed local data for runtimes, model families, hardware profiles, comparisons, sources, and changelog entries.
- - Crawlable routes, metadata, JSON exports, sitemap, and robots controls.
- - Guardrails against fake success states and unsupported claims.
What this site does not claim
- - No independent lab measurement results.
- - No independently tested hardware compatibility matrix.
- - No ratings, affiliate rankings, prices, or user counts.
- - No backend, database, authentication, payments, scraper, or chatbot.