{"slug": "only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box", "title": "Only 10 of 89 AI starter templates work with local models out of the box", "summary": "A survey of 89 open-source AI starter templates found that only 10 work with local models out of the box, while 54 list an API key as a requirement — OpenAI in 49, Anthropic in 20. The templates lean TypeScript (56) over Python (19), with many built on the Vercel AI SDK (21) or LangGraph/LangChain (19); morphic, agent-service-toolkit, fragments, ai-town and llm-answer-engine are among the local-model-ready group.", "body_md": "If you want to build an AI app that runs on your own models, the starter you fork matters. We track 89 open-source starter templates for AI apps, and each entry records what the README says about models and what you need to bring.\n\n**54 of 89 list an API key as a requirement.** OpenAI is the usual one: 49 templates support it, Anthropic shows up in 20, and a lot of them sit on the Vercel AI SDK (21) or LangGraph/LangChain (19).\n\n**10 work with local models out of the box**, through Ollama or something similar. morphic, agent-service-toolkit, fragments, ai-town and llm-answer-engine are in that group.\n\nIn a cloud-first template, swapping the provider is usually a small edit. If running local is the whole point, though, starting from one of those 10 skips that work.\n\nThey lean TypeScript, by the way: 56 of 89, with 19 in Python.\n\nThe full list, with what each template has wired in and what you still have to build: [https://github.com/archestack/best-of-ai-starters](https://github.com/archestack/best-of-ai-starters)\n\n*Written with help from AI tools. Numbers from the list's public data, checked on 2026-10-09.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/archestack/only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box-3i5c", "published_at": "2026-10-09 11:35:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-09 11:51:39.823346+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Vercel AI SDK", "LangChain", "LangGraph", "Ollama", "morphic", "agent-service-toolkit"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/only-10-of-89-ai-starter-templates-work-with-local-models-out-of-the-box.jsonld"}}