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LocalAI hosting on xCloud gives your team a private, 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, and models run on your server, not a hosted API.

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  • No technical skills needed
  • No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is LocalAI?

LocalAI is an open-source AI engine you run on your own hardware. It exposes an OpenAI-compatible API and a web UI, and serves language, vision, audio, image and video models through one interface, pulling each inference backend on demand so you install only what a model needs.

Because the models run on your server, prompts, uploads and generated output stay there. LocalAI also includes user accounts with admin and user roles, per-user API keys and usage tracking, plus a web model gallery for installing models.

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  • Agents and retrieval experiments

    Use LocalAI's agent features — tools, RAG, MCP and skills — against models you host yourself.

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: prompts go to the provider, while LocalAI answers the same style of API call from your own server.
Ollama
Another way to self-host open language models, with its own runner and API.
Open WebUI
A chat front end rather than an inference engine; it can sit in front of an OpenAI-compatible endpoint such as LocalAI.
AnythingLLM
A document-chat and agent workspace 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.

Cloud VPS 16 GB

Most popular

Fits LocalAI's 4096 MB baseline with room to load a model.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. LocalAI itself is licensed by its maintainers under MIT.

Docker hosting

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy LocalAI on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

Free

Start your journey without cost.

$0forever

  • 1 server
  • 10 sites
Start free

Starter

Most popular

Your rate with 2–5 servers connected.

$5per server / month

  • 2–5 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Professional

The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

$4per server / month

  • 6–10 servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Agency

The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

$3per server / month

  • 11+ servers
  • Unlimited sites
  • All features included
  • Bring any VPS provider
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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

How is LocalAI different from using a hosted AI API?

Models run on your own xCloud server. Prompts, uploads and generated output stay on that server, and the API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing clients work by changing the base URL and key.

How do I sign in 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.

Do I need a GPU?

No. The template ships the CPU image, and the verify run served a chat completion from a gallery model on a 2-core server. Larger models need more RAM and are slower on CPU; GPU variants are out of scope for this template.

Is a model included?

No. Nothing is preloaded. Open Models, install one from the gallery, then chat in the UI or call the API.

What runs alongside LocalAI?

Nothing — it is a single container. Inference backends such as llama.cpp are downloaded on demand into the backends volume when you install a model.

How do I call the API?

Send requests such as /v1/chat/completions with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Calls without a key or with a wrong key return 401.

How do I rotate the API key or change who can register?

Change LOCALAI_API_KEY in the environment editor and redeploy; changing LOCALAI_AUTH_HMAC_SECRET signs everyone out of the UI. LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_MODE defaults to approval; switch it to invite or open and redeploy.

Edit environment variables

What should I back up?

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 and generated content.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

Installed models, user accounts, the admin session and the API key all persisted across an xCloud Restart in the verify run, with no restart loops, because they live on named volumes.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update LocalAI?

No. The template pins LocalAI v4.10.0 by immutable digest; existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up the volumes first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule, keeping the previous image to roll back. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 16 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 2 CPU cores, 4096 MB of RAM and 20 GB of disk. Measured idle use in QA was about 40 MiB, and about 290 MiB after loading a 270M-parameter model, but the 4 GB floor is kept because real models need it: an 8B-class model can need several extra gigabytes. This page sells the 16 GB tier as the entry rung so a loaded model has headroom.

Is there an upload size limit?

The template sets a 512 MB proxy body limit, but the verify run warned that uploads over roughly 100 MB may be rejected at the edge, so test large uploads before relying on them.

Is xCloud officially partnered with LocalAI?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the LocalAI project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source LocalAI project.

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.

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