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AxolotlvsLlamaFactory

Streamlined LoRA & QLoRA fine-tuning versus Unified fine-tuning for 100+ LLMs

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Choose Axolotl when…

  • •You want a config-driven OSS fine-tuning pipeline
  • •You need support for LoRA, QLoRA, and FSDP in one tool
  • •You prefer HuggingFace-native workflows

Choose LlamaFactory when…

  • •You need DPO, RLHF, or reward modeling in addition to SFT
  • •You want a no-code web UI for training runs
  • •You're working across many different model families

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Axolotl
LlamaFactory
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Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning
Type
Open Source
Open Source
Free Tier
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GitHub Stars
⭐ 9,800
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Axolotl

OSS fine-tuning framework built on HuggingFace Transformers. Supports LoRA, QLoRA, full fine-tuning, and FSDP. Config-driven — define your training run in a YAML file.

Website ↗GitHub ↗

LlamaFactory

Supports full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO, RLHF, and reward modeling across 100+ models. Web UI (LlamaBoard) for no-code training. The most feature-complete OSS fine-tuning framework.

Website ↗GitHub ↗

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UnslothvLLM

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LlamaFactory

Only LlamaFactory (1)

Axolotl

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