Ollama or llama.cpp are also common alternatives. But a 8B model isn't going to have much real-world knowledge or be highly reliable for agentic workloads, so it makes sense that people will want more than that.

the compute density is insane. but giving a 70B model actual write access locally for agentic workloads is a massive liability. they still hallucinate too much. raw compute without strict state control is basically just a blast radius waiting to happen.