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Headroomheadroomlabs-ai/headroom
Cost and coverage
Price
$0 software; you run it
Popularity and activity (from GitHub)
Stars
76,780
Gain this week
Unknown
Signal
Building history
Commits / 4 wk
375
Latest release
v0.41.0 · 2026-10-14
Commits / 12 wk
918
People committing / 12 mo
100+
Issues opened / closed, 30 days
161 / 229
Facts, with sources on each project page
Runs on my machine?
Confirmed: Yes, Python CLI, library and local proxy; compression runs on your machine
Code licence
Confirmed: Apache-2.0
Model weights licence
Confirmed: Kompress-v2-base compressor weights are Apache-2.0; the default embedding model (BAAI bge-small-en-v1.5) keeps its own licence
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes, Apache-2.0 code and Apache-2.0 Kompress model
Paid services needed?
Partial: None for Headroom itself; it sits in front of the LLM provider or coding agent you use, which may be paid
Hardware
Unknown: Not checked yet
Operating systems
Confirmed: Wheels for Windows, Linux and macOS; Intel Macs may need Docker or a source build
Setup effort
Confirmed: Easy; uv tool install or pip install
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