Mission control for local AI.
Orion Tuner is a $10 desktop app that squeezes maximum performance out of local AI models on your own hardware. It detects your exact GPU, CPU, and RAM, recommends proven tuning recipes, launches and manages instances across four inference engines, proves the gains with real benchmarks, and watches your machines from one Command Center. $10 once, offline, private, no subscription, no telemetry.
- Four engines in one app
- Real benchmarks with statistical safeguards
- $10 once, no subscription
- Zero telemetry
$10 once. No subscription. No telemetry. Offline and private.
The local AI stack is powerful and fragmented
You bought serious hardware. You run open models with real capability. Then you fight the knobs. Four engines with four flag grammars. No way to compare a recipe honestly. No guard that catches the failure that makes a tuned model quietly dumber. No single window that shows you the whole fleet.
Every engine has knobs. Every GPU behaves differently. The knowledge to tune them is scattered across Discord threads and dead GitHub issues. Nobody owns "make my model fast on MY hardware, prove it, and keep it safe."
Orion Tuner owns that. It comes from a cofounder who built healthcare software that put practice performance metrics in front of the people running the practice. Same idea here: real numbers for the person who owns the machine.
What Orion Tuner does
Four engines, one app.
vLLM, llama.cpp, MLX, TensorRT-LLM. Launch, configure, and manage instances without touching a terminal.
Hardware aware from second one.
Detects GPU, CPU, RAM including Apple unified memory. Computes real VRAM budgets. No more out of memory roulette.
Tuning recipes.
Save, load, import, export, share. Community recipes built in. Hardware aware recommendations.
Real benchmarking.
Throughput benchmark lanes with statistical safeguards. Honest numbers out of every run. No more benchmarking luck.
Quality lanes.
Long context needle in a haystack, instruction following, coding, math. Verifies the model still thinks, not just talks.
Preflight checks.
11 pre launch checks that catch real failure modes: context overflow, KV cache mis sizing, quant and VRAM mismatches.
Minefield Guard.
Live guardrails distilled from a registry of 116 real model serving failure traps.
Network auto discovery.
SSH probe scan finds GPU machines on your LAN, classifies them, one click to manage.
Command Center.
Real time fleet dashboard: metrics, sparklines that survive restart, live GPU stats from every machine.
Tokens per Watt.
Efficiency as a first class metric. Green tuning is fast tuning.
Model Catalog.
Curated model list with a fit check: will it run on this machine, at what quant, with how much headroom. One click from maybe to running.
Cross hardware comparison.
A/B configs and machines, CSV export.
Local AI vs cloud: the honest framing
Local AI means no per token cloud bill, no data leaving your building, and full control of your infrastructure. For a lot of workloads, it is the cheapest fast path. But local AI is only cheaper if you actually tune it. A badly tuned local model wastes the hardware you already paid for.
Orion Tuner is the layer that makes your hardware behave. It detects what you have, recommends a proven recipe, proves the gains, and watches the fleet. $10 once. That is less than the electricity you will save.
Private by default
No cloud. No telemetry. No subscription. No account.
Offline Ed25519 verified license. The app never phones home. Your models and your measurements never leave your machines.
Works fully offline. No account, no phone home, zero telemetry.
Building now
Orion Tuner is alive. Here is what is next.
- Building now Agent Control Layer. An MCP server built directly into the app so AI agents can operate Orion Tuner natively. Localhost only, token authenticated, scoped, audited: every agent request is recorded in an audit trail. Your AI agent can discover hardware, pick or search models, build recipes, launch, benchmark, and iterate to the best config with the same guardrails as a human. Destructive actions sit behind an approval prompt. Your override always wins.
- Building now Agent skill package. One click or one copy paste and your agent permanently knows every feature, knob, and workflow.
- Building now CLI. Headless, same powers, scriptable, JSON output, for automation and agents without MCP.
- Building nowSpeculative decoding A/B
- Building nowSGLang engine support
- Building nowMulti node mesh recipes
All items carry the "Building now" badge. No dates. No superlatives. Just the work.
The numbers behind the build
Four inference engines unified. 76+ app operations. 116 trap guard registry. 11 preflight checks. 450+ automated tests, clippy clean. $10 once, zero subscription, zero telemetry, works fully offline.
These are engineering facts, not marketing numbers. The benchmarks and quality lanes mean "faster" never means "silently dumber."
Get Orion Tuner
$10 once. No subscription. No telemetry. Offline and private.
Today, email us to express interest and we will tell you the moment the signed release is out.