About AIDiveForge
AIDiveForge installs local and open-source AI tools, runs them on its own test machine, and publishes what it measured. If you are deciding between Ollama and LM Studio, or whether an open-source coding agent will work with a model your computer can actually run, you should be able to see real numbers from someone who tried it, not a rewrite of the vendor’s homepage.
AIDiveForge is operated by Emrich Enterprises LLC, a Montana limited liability company. It is independent: no vendor owns it, and no vendor pays for a result.
What we do
- Install the tool the way its docs say. We use the vendor’s own installer or official image, inside an isolated container, and record how long it took and how much disk it needs.
- Run it on the same model and hardware as everything else. Runtimes load the same model file; agents get the same tasks. That is what makes two tools comparable.
- Publish the measurements, with the caveats. Every tested page shows the date, the version, the machine and what we could not test. Full method: How we test.
- Record what it tries to reach. Test containers have no internet. We log every outside host a tool tries to contact, so you know what it phones home to.
What is tested and what is not
Pages that carry a We installed and ran it section were tested by us, on the date shown. Other tool pages summarise the tool’s own documentation and site; they say so, and we are replacing them with tested pages one tool at a time. We do not score or rank tools we have not run.
How we make money
Reading the site is free. We may earn affiliate commissions on some outbound links and we sell clearly labeled Sponsored placements. Neither changes a measurement, a test result, or which tools we test. See the Affiliate Disclosure.
What we will not do
- Publish a speed or quality number we did not measure, or present a vendor’s number as ours.
- Sell a better result, a higher position, or a kinder caveat.
- Hide an affiliate or sponsored link.
Contact and corrections
Found a number that looks wrong, or a newer version we should re-test? Email [email protected]. Vendors can ask for a re-test; we do not charge for it. Full routing is on the contact page.