Your prompts never have to leave the building: TextGen runs open large language models on your own hardware behind a chat interface and an API that speak fluent OpenAI. Load GGUF or Hugging Face weights through llama.cpp, ik_llama.cpp, Transformers, ExLlamaV3, or TensorRT-LLM, and switch models or backends from the interface without restarting the server. Chat mode gives you conversations with characters and system prompts, notebook mode behaves like a familiar completion editor, and both accept image attachments for vision models and documents for context. Models that support tool calling can search the web, fetch pages, and do math through single-file Python tools, and MCP servers plug in for larger tool catalogs. Start it with the API flag and the same model answers at chat, completions, and messages endpoints that mirror OpenAI and Anthropic, complete with streaming, logprobs, embeddings, and optional API key authentication. Portable builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS bundle every dependency, so the distance from download to a running model is an unzip and one shell command. Because everything is local, prompts, documents, and outputs stay on machines you control, and parallel request handling lets a single loaded model serve a whole team's tools at once. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.