Open-source lLM training, gateways & evals

Fine-tuning, model gateways, evaluation and observability. 8 projects, sorted by GitHub stars.

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8 open-source llm training, gateways & evals

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Transformers

huggingface/transformers

★ 167.8kApache-2.0OSI-approvedCommit 2026-10-16

The standard Python library for defining, running and fine-tuning open models across text, vision and audio.

pip install "transformers[torch]"
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LLaMA-Factory

hiyouga/LlamaFactory

★ 75.5kApache-2.0OSI-approvedCommit 2026-10-10

No-code web UI and CLI to fine-tune 100+ open LLMs and VLMs (LoRA, QLoRA, full).

docker run -it --rm --gpus=all --ipc=host hiyouga/llamafactory:latest
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LiteLLM

BerriAI/litellm

★ 61.4kMIT (enterprise/ dir proprietary)Open coreCommit 2026-10-17

Gateway and SDK to call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI format with cost tracking, fallbacks, load balancing and logging.

uv tool install 'litellm[proxy]'
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promptfoo

promptfoo/promptfoo

★ 26.1kMITOSI-approvedCommit 2026-10-16

CLI and CI tool to test prompts, agents and RAG, compare models, and red-team LLM apps.

npm install -g promptfoo
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DeepEval

confident-ai/deepeval

★ 18.9kApache-2.0OSI-approvedCommit 2026-10-16

Pytest-style framework for evaluating LLM outputs with ready-made metrics.

pip install -U deepeval
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Ragas

vibrantlabsai/ragas

★ 16kApache-2.0OSI-approvedCommit 2026-02-24

Evaluation toolkit for RAG and LLM apps (faithfulness, relevance, etc.) with test-set generation.

pip install ragas
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Axolotl

axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl

★ 12.6kApache-2.0OSI-approvedCommit 2026-10-17

Config-driven tool for fine-tuning and post-training open LLMs.

docker run --gpus '"all"' --ipc=host --rm -it axolotlai/axolotl:main-latest
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Laminar

lmnr-ai/lmnr

★ 3.4kApache-2.0OSI-approvedCommit 2026-10-16

Open-source tracing, evals and observability platform built for AI agents.

pip install --upgrade 'lmnr[all]'

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