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SillyTavern
Self-hosted power-user frontend for character chat, roleplay and interactive fiction over local backends or cloud APIs.
- SillyTavern (open-source project)
- Local or cloud
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- AWritingApps · Local · via Kimi K3
Tools without a benchmark of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer.
Facts
- Vendor
- SillyTavern (open-source project)
- Approach
- Apps
- Where it runs
- Runs fully on your hardware with local models; cloud models optional
- Interface
- Self-hosted web UI
- Skill level
- Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Free and open source (AGPL-3.0); connects to local backends (KoboldCpp, Ollama, llama.cpp) or paid APIs. uses_models = open families via those backends (same basis as Open WebUI).
- Source code
- Open source (AGPL-3.0)
- GitHub stars
- 34.6k (18 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from github.com, 18 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
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- BGemma 4 (31B)Google DeepMind · open weights
- BMiniMax-M3MiniMax · open weights
- BQwen3.8-27BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- CLlama 4 MaverickMeta · open weights
- Cgpt-oss-120bOpenAI · open weights
- Cgpt-oss-20bOpenAI · open weights
- CQwen3.8-2.4T-A95BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights