LLM Harbor
Containerized LLM toolkit. Run LLM backends, APIs, frontends, and additional services via a concise CLI.
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Still maintained? Yes: 304 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.5.17 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
LLM Harbor quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 3,256
- Last commit
- 6 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.5.17, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Harbor is a CLI and companion app that lets you spin up a complete local LLM stack—backends like Ollama, llama.cpp, or vLLM, frontends like Open WebUI, plus supporting services like SearXNG for web search, Speaches for voice chat, and ComfyUI for image generation—all pre-wired to work together with a single harbor up command."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
LLM Harbor scores 94/100, #10 of 14 in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): 304 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.5.17, 6 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,256 stars add 14.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
304 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.5.17 released 6 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.1 / 20
3.3k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 304
- Last 90 days
- 1,311
- Last 12 months
- 6 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 14 tools in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) by health , between Agenta (#9) and GoModel (#11) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Shell |
| Latest release | v0.5.17 · 6 days ago |
| Stars | 3,256 |
| Open issues | 40 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | av/harbor ↗ |
LLM Harbor vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with LLM Harbor (Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LobeHub | 100 | 84k | ⊘ Proprietary | today |
| Ollama | 100 | 185k | MIT | today |
| Open-WebUI | 100 | 157k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| AnythingLLM | 99 | 68k | MIT | today |
| LibreChat | 99 | 46k | MIT | today |
| LLM Harbor (this tool) | 94 | 3.3k | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
LLM Harbor: common questions
Is LLM Harbor still maintained?
LLM Harbor had 304 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 6 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.5.17, is from 6 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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