LLaMA-Factory
A web UI for fine-tuning. The gentlest on-ramp if YAML is the blocker.
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sovereigntyLLaMA-Factory covers the same ground as Axolotl — LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning, preference optimisation across a wide model range — but adds a browser UI that walks through dataset selection, method and hyperparameters without editing a config file. For a team where the person who understands the training data is not the person who writes YAML, that difference decides whether the project happens. The CLI is there when you outgrow the UI.
OPEN SOURCEApache-2.0SELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseApache-2.0
PricingFree and unlimited; hardware is yours.
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes
What it does well
- +Genuine web UI — no config file required to get started
- +Very broad model-family and training-method coverage
- +Includes evaluation and chat testing in the same interface
- +Apache-2.0
Where it falls short
- −UI convenience hides details you eventually need to understand
- −Documentation is thinner in English than in Chinese
- −Heavier install than a library-only approach
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