Orion Tuner FAQ

Free runtime, different layer. The free tools give you a GUI, a CLI, or a chat frontend. Tuning recipes, honest benchmarks, quality guards, fleet view: that layer does not exist free anywhere. $10 once is less than the electricity you will save.

The license activates offline with a signed key, no account, no telemetry. The app never phones home. Releases carry checksums. 450+ automated tests, clippy clean. The whole thing works fully offline.

We gate the public release on Apple signed builds exactly so this does not happen. On the signed build, right click and Open works. We will not ship until the signing is done.

The macOS build is the shipping build. Windows and Linux installers are built and validating now. Watch the repo.

Different job entirely. Not chat facing. The tuning, the proof, the fleet, all of it is the point. Ollama is a great runtime. Orion Tuner is the layer above it.

Everything we claim has a measurement behind it. We publish the methodology, run quality lanes alongside throughput, and only release numbers from real builds. A lucky run is not an optimization.

No. Zero telemetry. No account. The license is verified offline with an Ed25519 signed key. The app works fully offline. Your models and your measurements never leave your machines.

It detects GPU, CPU, and RAM including Apple unified memory. It works across the hardware you already have: Macs, NVIDIA GPUs, and anything the four engines support.

Building now It is building now. An MCP server built into the app so AI agents can operate Orion Tuner natively. Your agent can discover hardware, pick models, build recipes, launch, benchmark, and iterate. Destructive actions sit behind an approval prompt. Your override always wins. Building now, no ship date.

Building now Any agent that connects over the standard MCP link: Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, and other MCP capable assistants. Building now, no ship date.

Building now Yes. The agent talks to Orion Tuner over a connection on your own Mac. No cloud account, no telemetry, and nothing about the feature needs the internet. Building now, no ship date.

Building now Destructive actions sit behind an approval prompt first. The connection is localhost only with a token you can rotate or revoke. Every request is recorded in an audit trail. Your override always wins. Building now, no ship date.

Benchmark numbers on the site are placeholders until we publish numbers generated from the release build. The methodology and the quality lanes are real and ship with the app. We only publish numbers from real builds, not from development runs.