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Docker Model Runner
Docker's built-in way to pull, run and serve models as OCI artifacts with llama.cpp or vLLM behind an OpenAI-compatible API.
- Docker
- Local only
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- AChat & assistantsRuntimes & gateways · Local · via GLM-5.3-Flash
- CCodingRuntimes & gateways · Local · via GLM-5.3-Flash
Tools without a benchmark of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer.
Facts
- Vendor
- Docker
- Approach
- Runtimes & gateways
- Where it runs
- Runs only on your own hardware
- Interface
- Command line, Desktop app, API
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Included in Docker Desktop and Docker Engine; model runner code Apache-2.0.
- Source code
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- GitHub stars
- 659 (19 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 19 Oct 2026
Price from github.com, 19 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- AGLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai · open weights
- AGemma 4 (31B)Google DeepMind · open weights
- AQwen3.8-27BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- Bgpt-oss-120bOpenAI · open weights
- Cgpt-oss-20bOpenAI · open weights
- CQwen3-Coder-NextAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- –Devstral Small 2 (2512)Mistral AI · open weights