Soup alternatives
Curated alternatives to Soup — and why you'd switch.
LlamaFactory
The unified fine-tuning framework: 100+ LLMs and VLMs via LoRA/QLoRA/full-parameter, config-driven or through the LlamaBoard GUI. ACL 2024, 1000+ citations, 73k stars.
Why switchSame job, opposite ends: LlamaFactory covers 100+ models with cluster-grade breadth; Soup bets everything on one-YAML simplicity and making 4GB laptops viable.
Full comparison →h2o-llmstudio
H2O's no-code GUI and framework for fine-tuning LLMs — LoRA, 8-bit, DPO and experiment tracking behind a web UI, with CLI and Docker paths for the same configs.
Why switchBoth chase no-pain fine-tuning: H2O behind a no-code GUI with experiment tracking, Soup behind a single YAML and a laptop-VRAM streaming engine.
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