- Python 71.5%
- TypeScript 22.7%
- Shell 1.9%
- PowerShell 1.6%
- Rust 1.5%
- Other 0.7%
* Studio: add durable Deep Research workflows * Studio: preserve research integration after upstream updates * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: keep research worker compatible with Python 3.11 * Studio: address Deep Research lifecycle review * Studio: preserve durable research recovery * Studio: preserve research stream and context * Studio: harden research sources and limits * Studio: align research with shared chats * Studio: guard durable research actions * Studio: protect durable research turns * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: deepen durable research decisions * Studio: protect research prompts and queries * Studio: slim research stream deltas * Studio: preserve research evidence and citations * Studio: harden Deep Research (CI, prompt injection, query PII, config, citations) - Fix backend CI: add research_runs_router to the synthetic routes stub in test_desktop_auth so studio.backend.main imports under the health-check test. - Escape prompt-delimiter tags in the decision and synthesis prompts so gathered web/document content cannot close an <untrusted_...> wrapper and inject instructions into the local planner/decision/synthesis model. - Extend the public-query sanitizer to redact Luhn-valid payment cards, phone numbers, non-global IPs, and labeled private identifiers before a query can reach web search. - Reject nested credential keys in inferenceRequest and ragScope, not just top-level keys, when persisting a durable run config. - Treat maxSources as one budget shared across web and document sources (collection and resume paths) instead of per type, which allowed up to 2x the configured cap. - Preserve document citations whose filename contains a closing bracket by tokenizing valid citations before stripping invalid ones. - Persist Deep Research off when switching to an external model and when enabling Web Fetch so a refresh cannot rehydrate a mutually-exclusive state. - Add regression tests for the query, prompt, citation, and config hardening. * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: make the research claims table migration atomic The owner-scoped to global claims migration ran its RENAME, CREATE, INSERT and DROP in autocommit, so an interruption after CREATE left the new table empty, orphaned the rows in the legacy table, and never re-triggered. Wrap the rebuild in an explicit transaction so a crash rolls back cleanly and the migration re-runs on the next boot. * Studio: block message edits and regeneration during an active research run After a reload a durable research run is followed by the research store rather than an assistant-ui run, so thread.isRunning is false while research is still active. Message edit, refresh and the edit composer previously gated only on isRunning, which let a normal generation start alongside the running research run. Gate them on the active thread's research state as well. * Studio: keep the plan review mounted through approval Keying PlanReview on planRevision remounted it mid-approve when updateResearchPlan bumped the revision, resetting the local pending flag and re-enabling Start research while the approve was still in flight, which allowed a duplicate approve. Key on runId only. * Studio: drop the redundant deep-research persistence change setCheckpoint already persists Deep Research off for external models at the top of the function, so the added saveBool was a duplicate, and clearing Deep Research from setWebFetchToolsEnabled guarded a state that is not reachable (Deep Research is local-model only while the Web Fetch pill is external-provider only). Revert both to the pre-hardening version. * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: harden Deep Research citations, query privacy, and message protection Address review findings in the Deep Research backend: - Escape an unbalanced ")" in citation destinations so a source URL cannot close the markdown link early and inject a second link, keeping balanced parentheses literal. - Match raw-URL citations on whole tokens so a URL sharing another URL's prefix is no longer partially rewritten. - Redact non-global IPv6 addresses in public search queries, matching the existing IPv4 handling. - Detect credential key names after normalizing case and separators so nested openaiApiKey, accessToken, and clientSecret values cannot be persisted. - Reject client edits to server-managed research prompts and reports at the storage layer; only the internal writers pass allow_research_update. - Scope research searches to the first allowed domains instead of dropping site scoping for large allow lists. - Persist the same fetch evidence bound used during live synthesis so a resumed run is not shortened. - Scope run completion so it only replaces this run's message parts. Add regression tests for the above. * Studio: fix Deep Research SSE framing, source counts, and favicon privacy - Normalize the whole SSE buffer so a CRLF split across transport chunks still frames events. - Count web and document sources together in the activity header so a RAG-only run is not shown as zero sources. - Cap the plan editor at the run's configured maxSteps instead of a hard-coded 30. - Add an allowRemoteIcons opt-out to the sources components and disable third-party favicon requests for research sources so visited domains are not leaked. * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: address final Deep Research review findings * Studio: fit Deep Research synthesis evidence to loaded context, add opt-in web grounding Size the synthesis evidence budget to the loaded model context so the prompt is not silently truncated on small contexts. When the evidence overflowed the window the report degenerated (it echoed the evidence tail instead of writing); the budget now reserves tokens for the prompt scaffolding and converts the remainder to chars, keeping the full cap when the context is unknown. Add opt-in web grounding for auto-read: read the top search results, ingest them into an ephemeral RAG scope, hybrid-retrieve the passages most relevant to the question with the existing knowledge-base retriever, and fold those chunks into the step evidence. The scope is per call and deleted afterwards, so a user's knowledge base is never touched. Off by default; enable with UNSLOTH_RESEARCH_AUTO_SCRAPE=1. Gated per run by budgets["maxAutoScrape"], so runs created without it keep legacy snippet-only behavior, and grounding is skipped when the loaded context is too small for the prompt. Add tests for the adaptive evidence budget, scraped-text cleaning, the ephemeral web-RAG retrieval and scope cleanup, and the auto-read evidence path. * Studio: read Deep Research synthesis context from the inference orchestrator Make the adaptive synthesis-evidence budget actually engage in the normal Studio architecture. _loaded_context_length read core.inference.inference, the low-level backend that lives in the model subprocess and stays unpopulated in the main web process where the research supervisor runs, so it returned None and the budget silently fell back to the 32000 character cap (leaving the report exposed to the truncation this was meant to fix). Read the inference orchestrator instead, and the llama.cpp backend for GGUF, mirroring routes.inference._monitor_context_length so the budget sizes to the context the API layer serves. Verified on a running server: at a 12288 token load the probe now reports 12288 and the budget adapts to 24576 characters instead of the 32000 fallback. Also: - Reserve context for the generated report as well as the prompt scaffolding (raise the reserve to 4096 tokens) so evidence does not crowd out the output on a small window. - Honor a numeric UNSLOTH_RESEARCH_AUTO_SCRAPE by passing the per-run maxAutoScrape as the page cap to the scraper, instead of always reading the maximum. - Guard the web-RAG connection acquisition so a get_connection failure returns the documented empty result rather than propagating. - Add a synthesis-context test that patches the real backend accessor (not the probe itself) so the production wiring is exercised, plus a scrape page-cap test. * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: harden Deep Research query redaction and research autosave - research_runs: extend the opaque-token allowlist so unlabeled Hugging Face (hf_) and GitLab (glpat-) tokens are redacted before a query can reach web search, without over-redacting public model or version ids. - runtime-provider: for a server-managed research message, echo the backend-stored metadata verbatim on autosave. Merging the client metadata re-added client-only fields the server never persisted, so the server-side guard saw a diff and rejected every streamed or snapshot update with 409. * Studio: keep composer tool pills always accessible after merge The merge left the composer line marked always-expanded (data-expanded "true") while the inner pill row was still gated behind composerExpanded, so the Search and Code toggles disappeared once the permission mode was "off" with no other toggle set. Render the primary tool pills unconditionally, matching the always-expanded layout, and drop the now unused composerExpanded and permissionMode locals. Fixes the Chat UI Playwright check that asserts the Search and Code pills stay visible. * Studio: update Deep Research composer contract to always-expanded layout The always-expanded composer no longer routes effectiveDeepResearchEnabled through a composerExpanded expression, so the frontend contract now checks that it gates the Deep Research composer button render instead. * Studio: do not bind a research run to a populated assistant reply create_run adopted any assistant message under the user turn whose researchRunId was unset, including a prior answer reused by a retry. On completion _update_assistant drops the untagged text and source parts, so that answer was silently overwritten. Only bind to an empty placeholder or this run's own message, and reject a reply that already carries content. * Studio: harden Deep Research synthesis budget, prompt shielding, and message protection - research_runs: split the synthesis evidence budget evenly across notes so a small context still keeps a slice of every research step instead of dropping the later steps after the earliest ones fill the budget. - research_runs: shield the research question and approved plan before placing them in the decision and synthesis prompts, so a closing delimiter in either cannot escape its block and inject sibling sections. - research_runs: redact bearer authorization tokens from public search queries. - studio_db: include attachments in the research-message change check and guard direct attachment deletion, so server-managed research prompts and responses cannot be mutated through the attachment paths. - chat_history: map the protected-message conflict on attachment deletion to 409. * Studio: strip invalid document citations that contain brackets The invalid-citation regex stopped at the first closing bracket, so a citation whose filename contained brackets left its tail (".pdf, p. 9]") in the report. Match a balanced bracketed span so the whole invalid citation is removed; valid citations stay protected by the earlier tokenization pass. * Studio: free the RAG search slot when a lookup times out or is cancelled The bounded knowledge-base search held the sole admission slot in a detached worker until the search returned, so a lookup that outlived its timeout (a stalled embedding or blocked vector call) kept the slot forever and starved every later lookup, disabling knowledge-base retrieval globally. Release the slot from the caller when it stops waiting, exactly once, so a detached worker finishes without re-holding it. * Studio: remove Websites label from research composer * Studio: fix Deep Research review findings (RAG slot bound, orphaned workers, hardening) - Bound the shared RAG search slot to one running worker. The search that is doing the embedding/index/GPU work now owns the admission slot until it finishes, instead of freeing it on caller timeout while the detached worker keeps running, which let a second search enter and stack concurrent work behind the capacity-of-one semaphore. - Cancel active research runs before deleting their thread, project, or all history. Deleting cascade-drops the run row, but the worker only notices at its next lease check, so it could keep doing model/web/RAG work for a run that no longer exists; signalling cancel first shortens that window. - Shield the planner prompt's conversation and question with _shield_untrusted, matching the decision and synthesis prompts, so untrusted text cannot forge planner delimiters. - Do not let a research key-revocation failure replace a successful non-streaming completion; log it like the streaming path does. - Include created_at in the protected research-message guard so a client cannot reorder server-managed prompt/response messages while leaving the body intact. - Reject non-scalar ragScope values; a nested container evades the sensitive-key scan when its inner keys are unlisted and would reach retrieval code that expects a scalar scope id. Adds regression tests for each. * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: remove research composer globe icon * Studio: use Hugeicons telescope in research composer * Studio: use Telescope02 icon in research composer * Studio: standardize Deep Research telescope icons * Studio: move Deep Research below web and code tools * Studio: merge grounded page excerpts with search snippets instead of replacing When auto-scrape grounding retrieved page-body chunks, it replaced the raw search-result text for that step. If the retrieved chunk was a distractor or dropped the key fact, the answer-bearing search snippet was lost and grounded runs regressed below snippet-only accuracy on factual questions (e.g. returning Apache 2.0 instead of the Qwen License, 403 instead of 404, or a single mirror diameter instead of the sum). Keep the search snippets and append the grounded excerpts as supplementary evidence via a small _merge_scraped_evidence helper. Grounding stays opt-in and off by default, so legacy runs are unchanged. Adds regression tests. * Studio: improve Deep Research synthesis * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci * Studio: harden Deep Research synthesis flow * Studio: validate Deep Research derived context * Studio: align Deep Research synthesis evidence * Studio: restore Deep Research synthesis state * Improve Deep Research source queries --------- Co-authored-by: alkinun <alkinunl@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: danielhanchen <unslothai@gmail.com> |
||
|---|---|---|
| .github | ||
| images | ||
| scripts | ||
| studio | ||
| tests | ||
| unsloth | ||
| unsloth_cli | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .pre-commit-ci.yaml | ||
| .pre-commit-config.yaml | ||
| build.sh | ||
| cli.py | ||
| CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | ||
| CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
| COPYING | ||
| install.ps1 | ||
| install.sh | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| pyproject.toml | ||
| README.md | ||
| unsloth-cli.py | ||
Unsloth Studio lets you run and train models locally.
Features • News • Quickstart • Notebooks • Documentation
⚡ Get started
macOS, Linux, WSL:
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
Windows:
irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Community:
⭐ Features
Unsloth Studio (Beta) lets you run and train text, audio, embedding, vision models on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Inference
- Search + download + run models including GGUF, LoRA adapters, safetensors
- Export models: Save or export models to GGUF, 16-bit safetensors and other formats.
- Tool calling: Support for self-healing tool calling and web search
- Code execution: lets LLMs test code in Claude artifacts and sandbox environments
- API inference endpoint: Deploy and run local LLMs in Claude Code, Codex tools with Unsloth
- Auto set inference settings and customize chat templates.
- We work directly with teams behind gpt-oss, Qwen3, Llama 4, Mistral, Gemma 1-3, and Phi-4, where we’ve fixed bugs that improve model accuracy.
- Chat with images, audio, PDFs, code, DOCX and more. Connect API providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) or servers (vLLM, Ollama).
- Compare any two models side by side with the same prompt.
- OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs: Serve local models through
/v1/chat/completions,/v1/responsesand/v1/messages. - Connect local models to agents: Use
unsloth startwith Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and more. - Web/PDF search can read PDF papers, manuals and other PDF results.
- GGUF hardware controls: Choose GPUs/layers, offload MoE experts, use multi-GPU or Tensor Parallelism.
- The opt-in MCP control endpoint lets AI clients manage models, training, recipes and exports.
Training
- Train and RL 500+ models up to 2x faster with 70% less VRAM; MoE up to 12x faster.
- Train and run RL on AMD GPUs across Windows, WSL and Linux.
- Data Recipes: Auto-create datasets from PDF, CSV, DOCX etc. Edit data in a visual-node workflow.
- Reinforcement Learning uses 80% less VRAM for GRPO, FP8 and vision RL, with 7x longer contexts.
- Long-context training: 3x faster, 30% less VRAM and 500K+ context.
- Supports LoRA/QLoRA, full fine-tuning, RL, pretraining, 4-bit, 16-bit and FP8.
- Custom Triton and mathematical kernels built with PyTorch and Hugging Face.
- Observability: Monitor training live, track loss and GPU usage and customize graphs.
- Multi-GPU training is supported, with major improvements coming soon.
🚀 Unsloth Start
Unsloth Start connects Claude Code, Codex and other agents to local models with one command.
Start Unsloth, load a model, open your project folder, then run:
unsloth start claude
Replace claude with any supported agent:
| Agent | Command |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | unsloth start claude |
| OpenAI Codex | unsloth start codex |
| Hermes Agent | unsloth start hermes |
| OpenClaw | unsloth start openclaw |
| OpenCode | unsloth start opencode |
| Pi Coding Agent | unsloth start pi |
Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi can keep their current model and use Unsloth as a local subagent:
unsloth start claude --as-subagent --model unsloth/model-GGUF:quant
📥 Install
Unsloth can be used in two ways: through Unsloth Studio, the web UI, or through Unsloth Core, the code-based version. Each has different requirements.
Unsloth Studio (web UI)
Unsloth Studio (Beta) works on Windows, Linux, WSL and macOS.
- CPU: Supported for Chat and Data Recipes currently
- NVIDIA: Training works on RTX 30/40/50, Blackwell, DGX Spark, Station and more
- macOS: Training, MLX and GGUF inference are ALL supported.
- AMD: Training, RL, chat and deployment work on Windows, WSL and Linux. Read the AMD guide.
- Vulkan: GGUF inference is supported on compatible GPUs, including Intel GPUs. Vulkan accelerates GGUF inference only; training still requires a supported PyTorch or MLX backend.
- Multi-GPU: Available now, with a major upgrade on the way
macOS, Linux, WSL:
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
Use the same command to update.
To force the Vulkan llama.cpp backend, set UNSLOTH_FORCE_VULKAN=1 before installing or updating. The setting selects the llama.cpp binary bundle, so setting it only when launching Studio cannot replace an existing CPU bundle:
export UNSLOTH_FORCE_VULKAN=1
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
Windows:
irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Use the same command to update.
To force the Vulkan llama.cpp backend, set the environment variable before running the installer or updater:
$env:UNSLOTH_FORCE_VULKAN=1
irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Re-running the current installer replaces a previously selected CPU bundle when the backend differs. A separate Vulkan SDK is not required; the GPU driver must provide a working Vulkan runtime.
Launch
unsloth studio -p 8888
For LAN or cloud access, add -H 0.0.0.0 (raw port only; add --cloudflare for a public URL). By default, Unsloth is accessible only locally.
To reach Unsloth over HTTPS, use unsloth studio --secure. Unsloth stays bound to localhost and is reached only through a free Cloudflare tunnel, which publishes it at a public https://*.trycloudflare.com URL (it fails closed if the tunnel can't start, so the raw port is never exposed). This makes Unsloth reachable from the internet, so anyone with the link and API key can use it and run code: keep your API key private (see Remote access below).
Docker
Use our Docker image unsloth/unsloth container. Run:
docker run -d -e JUPYTER_PASSWORD="mypassword" \
-p 8888:8888 -p 8000:8000 -p 2222:22 \
-v $(pwd)/work:/workspace/work \
--gpus all \
unsloth/unsloth
Developer, Nightly, Uninstall
To see developer, nightly and uninstallation etc. instructions, see advanced installation.
Unsloth Core (code-based)
Linux, WSL:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv venv unsloth_env --python 3.13
source unsloth_env/bin/activate
uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto
Windows:
winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.13
winget install --id=astral-sh.uv -e
uv venv unsloth_env --python 3.13
.\unsloth_env\Scripts\activate
uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto
For Windows, pip install unsloth works only if you have PyTorch installed. Read our Windows Guide.
You can use the same Docker image as Unsloth Studio.
AMD, Intel:
For RTX 50x, B200, 6000 GPUs: uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto. Read our guides for: Blackwell and DGX Spark.
To install Unsloth on AMD and Intel GPUs, follow our AMD Guide and Intel Guide.
📒 Free Notebooks
Train for free with our notebooks. You can use our new free Unsloth Studio notebook to run and train models for free in a web UI. Read our guide. Add dataset, run, then deploy your trained model.
| Model | Free Notebooks | Performance | Memory use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 4 (E2B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.5x faster | 50% less |
| Qwen3.5 (4B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.5x faster | 60% less |
| gpt-oss (20B) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Qwen3.5 GSPO | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| gpt-oss (20B): GRPO | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 80% less |
| Qwen3: Advanced GRPO | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| embeddinggemma (300M) | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 20% less |
| Mistral Ministral 3 (3B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.5x faster | 60% less |
| Llama 3.1 (8B) Alpaca | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Llama 3.2 Conversational | ▶️ Start for free | 2x faster | 70% less |
| Orpheus-TTS (3B) | ▶️ Start for free | 1.5x faster | 50% less |
- See all our notebooks for: Kaggle, GRPO, TTS, embedding & Vision
- See all our models and all our notebooks
- See detailed documentation for Unsloth here
🦥 Unsloth News
- AMD training: Train, run RL, chat and deploy on AMD GPUs across Windows, WSL and Linux. Guide
- GGUF hardware controls: Choose GPU/layer placement, offload MoE experts and use multi-GPU or Tensor Parallelism. #6414
- Local models for any agent: Use
unsloth startwith Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi and more through Unsloth's OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Guide - MCP control endpoint: Let compatible clients manage models, training, recipes, checkpoints and exports. #7191
- Local inference reliability: Resume long chats faster, recover stalled downloads and reuse existing GGUF files. #7204 • #6858 • #7209
- New models: Qwen-AgentWorld, Ornith, Kimi K2.7 Code and MiniMax M3
- GLM-5.2: Run Z.ai's 744B-parameter, 1M-context open model locally with Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs. Guide
- DeepSeek-V4: Run DeepSeek-V4-Flash locally with corrected multi-turn and tool-calling behavior. Guide
- DiffusionGemma: Run and fine-tune Google's diffusion language model with 1.8x faster inference in Unsloth Studio. Guide
- Qwen3.6: Run and train Qwen3.6 with MTP for 1.4-2.2x faster inference and NVFP4 quants for supported GPUs. Guide
- Gemma 4: Run and train Gemma 4 text, image and audio models with QAT, MTP, GGUF and MLX support. Guide
- MCP servers: Connect local models to files, apps, databases and external tools through Model Context Protocol. Guide
- Connections: Mix local models with API providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) or servers (vLLM, Ollama) in the same interface. Guide
- Introducing Unsloth Studio: our new web UI for running and training LLMs. Blog
- Train MoE LLMs 12x faster with 35% less VRAM - DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen and gpt-oss. Blog
- Embedding models: Unsloth now supports ~1.8-3.3x faster embedding fine-tuning. Blog • Notebooks
- New 7x longer context RL vs. all other setups, via our new batching algorithms. Blog
- New RoPE & MLP Triton Kernels & Padding Free + Packing: 3x faster training & 30% less VRAM. Blog
- 500K Context: Training a 20B model with >500K context is now possible on an 80GB GPU. Blog
- FP8 & Vision RL: You can now do FP8 & VLM GRPO on consumer GPUs. FP8 Blog • Vision RL
📥 Advanced Installation
The below advanced instructions are for Unsloth Studio. For Unsloth Core advanced installation, view our docs.
Developer / Nightly / Experimental installs: macOS, Linux, WSL:
The developer install builds from the main branch, which is the latest (nightly) source.
git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
cd unsloth
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -p 8888
To install into an isolated location (its own virtual env, auth/, studio.db, cache and llama.cpp build), set UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME and pass it again at launch:
UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME="$PWD/.studio" ./install.sh --local
UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME="$PWD/.studio" unsloth studio -p 8888
Then to update :
cd unsloth && git pull
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -p 8888
Developer / Nightly / Experimental installs: Windows PowerShell:
The developer install builds from the main branch, which is the latest (nightly) source.
git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git
cd unsloth
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
.\install.ps1 --local
unsloth studio -p 8888
To install into an isolated location (its own virtual env, auth/, studio.db, cache and llama.cpp build), set UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME and pass it again at launch:
$env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME="$PWD\.studio"; .\install.ps1 --local
$env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME="$PWD\.studio"; unsloth studio -p 8888
Then to update :
cd unsloth; git pull
.\install.ps1 --local
unsloth studio -p 8888
Remote access: --secure (HTTPS tunnel) vs raw port
By default unsloth studio binds to 127.0.0.1 (this machine only). To reach it from another device, pick one of:
--secure(recommended): serve only through a free Cloudflare HTTPS link. Unsloth stays bound to localhost and the tunnel provides the public URL; it fails closed (does not start) if the tunnel can't come up, so the raw port is never exposed.
unsloth studio --secure -p 8888
-H 0.0.0.0: bind the raw port on all network interfaces, reachable from anywhere on the network (subject to your firewall). It does not create a public internet URL; add--cloudflareto also publish an internet-reachablehttps://*.trycloudflare.comlink even behind a firewall. Only use this on a network you trust.
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
The Cloudflare tunnel is off by default: -H 0.0.0.0 exposes the raw port only, not a public internet URL. Pair the wildcard bind with --cloudflare (unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 --cloudflare) to also publish a public https://*.trycloudflare.com link, or prefer --secure (above), which keeps the raw port private. --cloudflare has no effect on a loopback bind.
On a wildcard bind Unsloth works out the address to share by asking ifconfig.me for the public IP, then asks check-host.net whether that port is reachable so it can tell you if a firewall is in the way. Both contact a third party. Set UNSLOTH_STUDIO_DISABLE_PUBLIC_CHECK=1 to skip them; the banner then shows the LAN address and no reachability line.
The first time Unsloth is published on a public URL (--secure or --cloudflare) with the auto-generated admin password still in place, it asks for a new admin password in the terminal (masked input with confirmation) before the public link goes up. Without an attached terminal it warns instead and keeps the bootstrap deadline: Unsloth shuts down after UNSLOTH_STUDIO_BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT (default 1 hour) unless the password is changed in the web UI.
For headless setups that cannot answer that prompt, set the initial admin password non-interactively with --password (only takes effect when no password is set yet; if one already exists it is a hard error, so rotate later with unsloth studio reset-password):
unsloth studio --secure --password 'your-strong-password' # visible in `ps`/history
UNSLOTH_STUDIO_PASSWORD='your-strong-password' unsloth studio --secure # via env var
printf '%s\n' 'your-strong-password' | unsloth studio --secure --password - # via stdin
A literal --password VALUE is visible in the process list and shell history, so prefer the UNSLOTH_STUDIO_PASSWORD env var or --password - (stdin) for automation. This applies to any launch (public or a headless -H 0.0.0.0 bind), and the password is set in the parent before the server binds, so it never reaches a re-executed child process.
Server-side tools (web search, Python and terminal code execution) run as your user and are on by default. Anyone who can reach the server with the API key can run code on this machine, so keep your API key private and pass --disable-tools when exposing Unsloth.
Advanced launch options
Installer options can be passed as environment variables. On macOS, Linux and WSL place the variable after the pipe so the shell passes it to sh; on Windows set it with $env: before piping to iex.
Skip PyTorch (GGUF-only mode):
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1 sh
$env:UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Skip the post-install prompt that starts Unsloth (useful for automated installs):
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_SKIP_AUTOSTART=1 sh
$env:UNSLOTH_SKIP_AUTOSTART=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Pin the Python version:
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_PYTHON=3.12 sh
$env:UNSLOTH_PYTHON='3.12'; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
Install to a custom location with UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME:
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME=/abs/path sh
$env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME='C:\path'; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
On macOS, the installer defaults to the system certificate store (UV_SYSTEM_CERTS=1) so uv trusts the CAs in your Keychain, needed behind TLS-inspecting proxies (Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler, etc.). Opt out with:
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UV_SYSTEM_CERTS=0 sh
Point the frontend build at a corporate npm mirror/proxy with UNSLOTH_NPM_REGISTRY (for the developer install behind a firewall that blocks registry.npmjs.org):
UNSLOTH_NPM_REGISTRY=https://artifactory.example.com/api/npm/npm/ ./install.sh --local
$env:UNSLOTH_NPM_REGISTRY='https://artifactory.example.com/api/npm/npm/'; .\install.ps1 --local
It is threaded as --registry into the Unsloth frontend npm/bun installs; the supply-chain locks (7-day min-release-age, exact version pins) stay in force.
Cap Unsloth's native CPU thread pools on high-core hosts: UNSLOTH_CPU_THREADS=8 unsloth studio -p 8888.
Uninstall
The recommended way to fully remove Unsloth Studio is the matching uninstall script for your OS. It stops any running servers, removes the install dir, the launcher data dir, the desktop shortcut, and any platform-specific entries (macOS .app bundle + Launch Services on Mac; Start Menu, HKCU\Software\Unsloth registry key and user PATH entries on Windows):
- MacOS, WSL, Linux:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth/main/scripts/uninstall.sh | sh - Windows (PowerShell):
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth/main/scripts/uninstall.ps1 | iex
If you only want to drop the install dir and keep the launcher/shortcut for a later reinstall, you can instead run rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio (Mac/Linux/WSL) or Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$HOME\.unsloth\studio" (Windows). The model cache at ~/.cache/huggingface is not touched by any of these.
For more info, see our docs.
Deleting model files
You can delete old model files either from the bin icon in model search or by removing the relevant cached model folder from the default Hugging Face cache directory. By default, HF uses:
- MacOS, Linux, WSL:
~/.cache/huggingface/hub/ - Windows:
%USERPROFILE%\.cache\huggingface\hub\
💚 Community and Links
| Type | Links |
|---|---|
| Join Discord server | |
| Join Reddit community | |
| 📚 Documentation & Wiki | Read Our Docs |
| Follow us on X | |
| 🔮 Our Models | Unsloth Catalog |
| ✍️ Blog | Read our Blogs |
Citation
You can cite the Unsloth repo as follows:
@software{unsloth,
author = {Daniel Han, Michael Han and Unsloth team},
title = {Unsloth},
url = {https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth},
year = {2023}
}
If you trained a model with 🦥Unsloth, you can use this cool sticker!
License
Unsloth uses a dual-licensing model of Apache 2.0 and AGPL-3.0. The core Unsloth package remains licensed under Apache 2.0, while certain optional components, such as the Unsloth Studio UI are licensed under the open-source license AGPL-3.0.
This structure helps support ongoing Unsloth development while keeping the project open source and enabling the broader ecosystem to continue growing.
Thank You to
- The llama.cpp library that lets users run and save models with Unsloth
- The Hugging Face team and their libraries: transformers and TRL
- The Pytorch and Torch AO team for their contributions
- NVIDIA for their NeMo DataDesigner library and their contributions
- And of course for every single person who has contributed or has used Unsloth!