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FauxPilot

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Spec score 7.8 #45 of 54 in AI Code Generators

Spec sheet

Purpose
FauxPilot is an open-source, locally hosted alternative to the GitHub Copilot server.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Intended users
The project describes itself as a locally hosted Copilot alternative and provides setup instructions for operating a server and connecting clients.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Deployment
The server is started with Docker Compose after a setup script downloads and converts the selected model.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Support
The README points users to the wiki and discussion forum for questions and says there is no formal support or warranty.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
License
The repository provides the software under the MIT License, free of charge and without restriction on use, copying, modification, distribution, or sale, subject to its conditions.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
API integration
Clients can connect through an OpenAI-compatible API, though the full API is not implemented, or through a REST endpoint.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Documentation status
The wiki says it is intended to collect usage, troubleshooting, and extension documentation and notes that its contents are limited.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Editor integration
The documentation describes configuring the official VS Code Copilot plugin to use a locally hosted FauxPilot server.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Hardware
The project requires an NVIDIA GPU with Compute Capability 6.0 or higher, and documented model VRAM needs range from 2GB to 32GB.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Integration limits
The documentation says some Copilot plugin functionality may be subtly broken, returned probabilities are partly fake, and tokenizer differences can cause overlong requests.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Model choices
The setup documentation lists CodeGen models from 350M to 16B parameters, in mono-language Python-only and multi-language variants.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com
Models
It uses Salesforce CodeGen models with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server and the FasterTransformer backend.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

FauxPilot Free Open-source software; requires Docker, docker compose >= 1.28, NVIDIA GPU with Compute Capability >= 6.0, nvidia-docker, curl and zstd Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

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