LocalAI Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy LocalAI hosting and give your team a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible AI server on your own domain. xCloud deploys the official LocalAI v4.10.0 CPU image, generates the API key and session secret, mounts four persistent volumes and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes. User authentication is enforced from the first request, no model is preloaded, and there is no GPU support in this template.

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What is LocalAI?

Self-hosted LocalAI is, in its README's words, the open-source AI engine: run any model, whether LLMs, vision, voice, image or video, on any hardware, with no GPU required. It is a small core whose backends, such as llama.cpp and whisper.cpp, are pulled on demand, and it offers drop-in API compatibility with OpenAI, Anthropic and ElevenLabs, multi-user API key auth, built-in agents and a web UI. It stands in for calling a hosted AI API, under the MIT licence.

On xCloud the template runs the localai/localai v4.10.0 CPU image as a single container, pinned by immutable digest, with four persistent volumes. HTTPS is published on your domain behind a generated API key and a first-account admin. No model is preloaded, there is no GPU, and uploads above roughly 100 MB may be rejected.

From Sign-Up to Your First Chat In Just 3 Easy Steps

A private inference server normally means a container image, authentication, volumes for models and backends, a domain and a certificate before the first prompt. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account, pick LocalAI from the OneClick catalog and choose a domain. There are no extra fields — xCloud generates the API key and session secret for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We run the official LocalAI CPU image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with its port bound to loopback, mount the localai_models, localai_backends, localai_configuration and localai_data volumes, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Register And Install A Model
Save the API key from the installation credentials, open your HTTPS LocalAI URL and register — the first account becomes the administrator. Open Models, install one from the gallery, then chat in the UI or call /v1/chat/completions with your Bearer key.

Everything LocalAI Does, On Your Own Server

LocalAI runs in full here: an OpenAI-compatible API and web UI on your own domain, with authentication already switched on.

OpenAI-Compatible API
Point existing SDKs and tools at your LocalAI URL and authenticate with the generated Bearer API key.
Many Modalities, One Interface
Language, vision, voice, image and video models sit behind one API, with each backend downloaded on demand.
Model Gallery
Browse and install models from the web gallery in one click instead of fetching and configuring files by hand.
Users, Roles And API Keys
Admin and user roles, per-user API keys and usage tracking; the first registered account is the administrator.
Approval-Mode Sign-Ups
Later registrations stay pending until an admin approves them; switch to invite-only or open registration and redeploy if you prefer.
Agent Features
LocalAI includes agent features — tools, RAG, MCP and skills — for teams that want more than chat.

Everything You Need To Run Your AI Server 24/7

Managed hosting for LocalAI, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

LocalAI v4.10.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
API key generated for you
User authentication enforced
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With LocalAI

A private endpoint for your apps
Point existing OpenAI-style SDKs and tools at your own LocalAI URL with the generated Bearer key, so prompts do not leave your server.
AI for privacy-sensitive teams
Give an organisation that cannot send data to hosted AI APIs a shared chat UI and API on infrastructure it controls.
Trying open models on CPU
Install a small GGUF model from the gallery and get a real chat completion on a CPU-only server, before deciding whether you need more.
One API for several modalities
Serve text, vision, voice, image and video models behind the same interface instead of running a separate tool for each.

LocalAI Screenshots

LocalAI's Get started page recommending CPU-only models from the gallery

LocalAI's Operate Users page listing an active admin and a pending user

LocalAI vs Alternatives

OpenAI API: A hosted service where prompts go to the provider. As a localai alternative to the OpenAI API, LocalAI answers the same style of API call from your own server, with models you install and no claim of matching hosted quality.
Ollama: Ollama is another way to self-host open language models, with its own runner and an xCloud template. In a localai vs ollama choice, LocalAI's README lists language, vision, voice, image and video models plus OpenAI, Anthropic and ElevenLabs API compatibility in one engine.
Open WebUI: Open WebUI is a chat front end with its own xCloud template, rather than an inference engine. It can sit in front of an OpenAI-compatible endpoint such as LocalAI. Compare it with LocalAI's built-in UI.
AnythingLLM: AnythingLLM is a document-chat and agent workspace with its own xCloud template that can connect to a model server instead of running models itself.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for LocalAI hosting. LocalAI's baseline is 4096 MB of RAM, so the 16 GB size is the entry rung.

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Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own AI Server?

LocalAI on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does LocalAI need?

The manifest asks for 2 CPU cores, 4096 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk. QA measured about 40 MiB idle and about 290 MiB after loading a small model, but real models need more, so this page sells the 16 GB tier, and disk grows with installed models.

Is LocalAI free and open source?

Yes. LocalAI is MIT licensed, per the LICENSE file at the v4.10.0 tag, so the software is free to run; xCloud bills only the dedicated Cloud VPS. The models you install carry their own licences, which you should read before using them.

Can you run LocalAI with Docker?

Yes, and this is LocalAI Docker hosting prepared for you: the template runs the official localai/localai v4.10.0 CPU image as one container, pinned by immutable digest, with four volumes and HTTPS on your domain, which makes it LocalAI cloud hosting on your own VPS.

What is the difference between LocalAI and Ollama?

Both self-host open models. LocalAI's README stresses one engine for LLMs, vision, voice, image and video, with OpenAI-compatible APIs and multi-user auth. Ollama has its own xCloud page, so compare them against the models and clients you use.

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How do I sign in to LocalAI the first time?

Open the HTTPS URL and register; the first account becomes the administrator. Anyone who registers afterwards stays pending until you approve them, unless you switch the registration mode. Register straight away so nobody else takes the first account.

Do I need a GPU to run LocalAI?

No. The README says no GPU is required, and this template ships the CPU image; a chat completion from a small gallery model was served on CPU in verification. Larger models need more RAM and are slower on CPU, and GPU variants are out of scope here.

Is a model included with LocalAI?

No. Nothing is preloaded. Open Models, install one from the gallery, then chat in the UI or call the API. Inference backends such as llama.cpp are downloaded on demand into the backends volume, so the first install needs outbound internet access.

How do I call the LocalAI API?

Send requests such as /v1/chat/completions with the header Authorization: Bearer and your API key. Calls without a key or with a wrong key return 401. Rotate the key by changing LOCALAI_API_KEY and redeploying, then update every client that uses it.

Is there an upload size limit on LocalAI?

The template sets a 512 MB proxy body limit, but the verification run warned that uploads over roughly 100 MB may be rejected at the edge, for example behind a Cloudflare proxy. Test large uploads before relying on them.

What should I back up on a LocalAI server?

The four volumes together, localai_models, localai_backends, localai_configuration and localai_data, plus the API key and HMAC secret from the environment. The data volume holds the user database. Copy them off the server and test a restore.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade LocalAI?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the install stays on pinned release v4.10.0 until you adopt a newer template version. Back up the volumes, go through the upstream release notes, and then check sign-in and that an installed model still answers.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.