#1414th of 14 in Desktop AI apps
aichat
Rust command-line LLM client with shell assistant, REPL, RAG and agents
- Stars
- 10.5k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- Feb 2026
- Last release
- Jul 2025
- Language
- Rust
9,527 on 31 Mar 202610,504 on 20 Oct 2026
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Overview
AIChat is a Rust CLI that talks to over 20 LLM providers through one interface, in single-prompt CMD mode or an interactive REPL. It adds roles, sessions, macros, RAG over local documents, function calling and agents, plus a built-in HTTP server exposing chat, embeddings and rerank endpoints with a playground and arena.
Who it is for: Terminal users who want one CLI for many LLM providers
Strengths
- Single Rust binary, installable via cargo, brew, pacman, scoop or Termux
- Covers OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Bedrock, VertexAI and any OpenAI-compatible API
- Built-in server exposes chat, embeddings and rerank endpoints plus a web playground and arena
- Accepts stdin, files, directories, URLs and command output as input
Weaknesses
- Terminal-first; the web playground is the only graphical interface
- No multi-user accounts or chat history UI described
- Last release 2025-07-06, older than the latest commit
- Tool and agent setup relies on the separate llm-functions repository
What it needs
- no GPU
- Needs LLM provider API key or local Ollama, llm-functions (optional, for tools and agents)
- Models: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq
- port 8000
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