Serge - LLaMA made easy 🦙

Serge is a chat interface crafted with llama.cpp for running LLM models. No API keys, entirely self-hosted!

• 🌐 SvelteKit frontend
• 💾 Redis for storing chat history & parameters
• ⚙️ FastAPI + LangChain for the API, wrapping calls to llama.cpp using the python bindings

🎥 Demo:

demo.webm

⚡️ Quick start

🐳 Docker:

docker run -d \
    --name serge \
    -v weights:/usr/src/app/weights \
    -v datadb:/data/db/ \
    -p 8008:8008 \
    ghcr.io/serge-chat/serge:latest

🐙 Docker Compose:

services:
  serge:
    image: ghcr.io/serge-chat/serge:latest
    container_name: serge
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8008:8008
    volumes:
      - weights:/usr/src/app/weights
      - datadb:/data/db/

volumes:
  weights:
  datadb:

Then, just visit http://localhost:8008, You can find the API documentation at http://localhost:8008/api/docs

🌍 Environment Variables

The following Environment Variables are available:

Variable Name	Description	Default Value
SERGE_DATABASE_URL	Database connection string	sqlite:////data/db/sql_app.db
SERGE_JWT_SECRET	Key for auth token encryption. Use a random string	uF7FGN5uzfGdFiPzR
SERGE_SESSION_EXPIRY	Duration in minutes before a user must reauthenticate	60
NODE_ENV	Node.js running environment	production

🖥️ Windows

Ensure you have Docker Desktop installed, WSL2 configured, and enough free RAM to run models.

⚠️ Memory Usage

LLaMA will crash if you don't have enough available memory for the model

💬 Support

Need help? Join our Discord

🧾 License

Nathan Sarrazin and Contributors. Serge is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License and Apache-2.0.

🤝 Contributing

If you discover a bug or have a feature idea, feel free to open an issue or PR.

To run Serge in development mode:

git clone https://github.com/serge-chat/serge.git
cd serge/
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up --build

The solution will accept a python debugger session on port 5678. Example launch.json for VSCode:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Remote Debug",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "attach",
            "connect": {
                "host": "localhost",
                "port": 5678
            },
            "pathMappings": [
                {
                    "localRoot": "${workspaceFolder}/api",
                    "remoteRoot": "/usr/src/app/api/"
                }
            ],
            "justMyCode": false
        }
    ]
}