Source
KoboldCpp is an easy-to-use AI text-generation software for GGML and GGUF models, inspired by the original KoboldAI. It's a single self-contained distributable that builds off llama.cpp and adds many additional powerful features.
Features
- Single file executable, with no installation required and no external dependencies
- Runs on CPU or GPU, supports full or partial offloaded
- LLM text generation (Supports all GGML and GGUF models, backwards compatibility with ALL past models)
- Image Generation and Image Editing (Stable Diffusion 1.5, SDXL, SD3, Flux, Qwen Image, Z-Image, Klein)
- Video Generation (WAN 2.2)
- Speech-To-Text (Voice Recognition) via Whisper
- Text-To-Speech (Voice Generation) via Qwen3TTS, Kokoro, OuteTTS, Parler and Dia
- Music Generation (Ace Step 1.5)
- Image Recognition (Multimodal Vision)
- MCP Server support and tool calling
- Provides many compatible APIs endpoints for many popular webservices (KoboldCppApi OpenAiApi OllamaApi A1111ForgeApi ComfyUiApi WhisperTranscribeApi XttsApi OpenAiSpeechApi)
- Bundled KoboldAI Lite UI with editing tools, save formats, memory, world info, author's note, characters, scenarios.
- Includes multiple modes (chat, adventure, instruct, storywriter) and UI Themes (aesthetic roleplay, classic writer, corporate assistant, messsenger)
- Supports loading Tavern Character Cards, importing many different data formats from various sites, reading or exporting JSON savefiles and persistent stories.
- Many other features including new samplers, regex support, websearch, RAG via TextDB, image recognition/vision and more.
- Ready-to-use binaries for Windows, MacOS, Linux. Runs directly with Colab, Docker, also supports other platforms if self-compiled (like Android (via Termux) and Raspberry PI).
Tags:
gamedev
ai
tool
Last modified 15 April 2026