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- Free allowance
- The open-source engine is a free download that runs on the user's own hardware
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe product is an inference engine a user runs; there is no hosted capacity to rent, and no plan to price
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | the open-source engine is a free download that runs on the user's own hardware unit none; metered on wall-clock; read from the vendor site |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) the product is an inference engine a user runs; there is no hosted capacity to rent, and no plan to price source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not published: the page read states no egress allowance and no overage price per TB |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest Desktop app with a local OpenAI-compatible API, plus one-click connectors for coding agents; the user installs and runs it |
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| Tooling | the user installs and runs the desktop app; OpenAI-compatible API |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Self-hosted: Magnitude is an open-source inference engine the user downloads and runs on their own hardware. |
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| Evidence note | documented the site was read on 2026-10-22 and states the Apache 2.0 licence and that it runs on a user's own hardware. There is no hosted compute, so the free tier is the software rather than… |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | magnitude.dev/ | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | magnitude.dev/ | 'Free, private, open source: no token costs, nothing leaves your machine, Apache 2.0' and 'Any Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, or AMD GPU, or nothing but a CPU. There is no fixed minimum.' quoted |
| 2026-10-29 | magnitude.dev/ | Magnitude is an open-source inference engine the client downloads and runs on its own hardware |
| 2026-10-29 | magnitude.dev/ | part of the text of Notes, above |
| 2026-11-03 | magnitude.dev/ | software the user installs and runs; no egress is metered or priced |
| 2026-11-03 | magnitude.dev/ | a local OpenAI-compatible API is exposed |
More fields 7
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram": null,"disk": null,"gpu_class": "any Apple Silicon, NVIDIA or AMD GPU","gpu_count": 1,"note": "no fixed minimum: a user's own hardware sets the shape"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "runs on a user's own GPU or CPU; the session is the process and quantized KV is freed when an agent stops"} |
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| network out | {"out": false,"in": false,"ports": "none","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"allowance": "'nothing leaves your machine'"} |
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| free tier kind | none |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "a user's own storage","durability": "the client's machine","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"max_retention": "as long as a user keeps it"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field