Is llamafile Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.”
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 70/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
llamafile’s main branch received 21 commits in the last 91 days. Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 26,423 stars on GitHub. GitHub does not recognise its licence as a standard one, so read the licence file before commercial use.
llamafile security practices and adoption
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Version0.10.6
- Published15 Sep 2026
- Downloads of its 7 files34,271
- Contributors78
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 20:35 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 16.9 / 35 | 21 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 20.0 / 20 | new activity compared with a quiet year earlier |
| Recency | 12.0 / 15 | last commit 10 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 33 days ago |
| Community | 10.8 / 20 | 21 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 215. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
llamafile: common questions
Is llamafile still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, llamafile received 21 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 8 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 70 out of 100.
What is the latest llamafile release?
The latest GitHub release of llamafile is 0.10.6, published on 15 September 2026.
How many people contribute to llamafile?
GitHub lists 78 contributors for llamafile. 21 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does llamafile use?
GitHub does not match the llamafile licence to a standard one, so read its licence file before commercial use.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 26,397 | 21 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 26,359 | 21 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for llamafile since then.
Other local llm tools
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ollama | Active | 184k | 372 | +40% |
| Open WebUI | Active | 156k | 2,142 | +19% |
| llama.cpp | Active | 132k | 1,653 | +94% |
| vLLM | Active | 94.1k | 4,411 | +59% |
| LobeChat | Active | 83.3k | 2,597 | +169% |
| GPT4All | No recent commits | 77.3k | 0 | — |
| whisper.cpp | Active | 54.5k | 621 | +30% |
| LocalAI | Active | 49.6k | 1,482 | +185% |
| exo | Active | 48.0k | 92 | −6% |
| TextGen | Slowing down | 47.7k | 1 | −100% |
| LibreChat | Active | 45.9k | 1,589 | +289% |
| Jan | Active | 45.0k | 1,050 | −10% |
| SGLang | Active | 37.3k | 4,904 | +155% |
| llamafile | Active | 26.4k | 21 | — |
| MLC LLM | Slowing down | 23.3k | 18 | −55% |
| TensorRT-LLM | Active | 14.9k | 2,367 | +79% |
| KoboldCpp | Active | 12.0k | 1,886 | +62% |
| TGI (Hugging Face) | Archived | 10.9k | 0 | −100% |
| LMDeploy | Active | 8.1k | 148 | −5% |
| MLX-LM | Active | 7.4k | 134 | +6% |
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.