System Info and Version

LocalAI provides endpoints to inspect the running instance, including available backends, loaded models, and version information.

System Information

Method: GET
Endpoint: /system

Returns available backends and currently loaded models.

Response

Field	Type	Description
`backends`	`array`	List of available backend names (strings)
`loaded_models`	`array`	List of currently loaded models
`loaded_models[].id`	`string`	Model identifier

Usage

curl http://localhost:8080/system

Example response

{
  "backends": [
    "llama-cpp",
    "huggingface",
    "diffusers",
    "whisper"
  ],
  "loaded_models": [
    {
      "id": "my-llama-model"
    },
    {
      "id": "whisper-1"
    }
  ]
}

Version

Method: GET
Endpoint: /version

Returns the LocalAI version and build commit.

Response

Field	Type	Description
`version`	`string`	Version string in the format `version (commit)`

Usage

curl http://localhost:8080/version

Example response

{
  "version": "2.26.0 (a1b2c3d4)"
}

Error Responses

Status Code	Description
500	Internal server error