A living map of systems that redistribute model, data, compute, access or governance. Decentralization is treated as an architecture to verify—not a brand category.
Evaluation axesModelDataComputeAccessGovernance
11 systems
Local / Production
Jan
A local-first desktop environment for models and agents.
llama.cpp / MLX · local API · local data
User control
5/5
Privacy
5/5
Openness
5/5
Why it matters
Prompts, memory and inference can remain on hardware the user controls.
Boundary
Control still depends on the chosen model license and the security of the host device.
Local / Active OSS
exo
Turn personal devices into one distributed inference cluster.
A polished bridge between mainstream UX and stronger inference privacy.
Boundary
The service, model catalog and routing control plane remain company-operated.
How to read the scores. They are editorial assessments, not objective measurements. A score summarizes public architecture and documentation across three dimensions; it should move when evidence changes.