The project

Why QuelLLM.fr

Because in 2026, most people still believe that “doing AI” means “sending their data to OpenAI.” This site exists to show that there is another path and make it accessible in French.

The takeaway

A local LLM is now possible for 80% of people without buying a server. A RTX 3060 costing €350 runs Mistral 7B at 40 tokens/second. A MacBook M2 runs Llama 3.1 70B quantized.

But between possible et accessible, there is a gap. The documentation is scattered, often in English, and often outdated from one month to the next. That is the gap we are trying to bridge.

The promise

A site that answers a simple question: does it run on my machine, and how. Not a model gallery, not a layer on top of Ollama.

A configurator that understands your hardware. Guides that work. A catalog that tells the truth about what does and doesn’t fit in VRAM. Benchmarks we actually measured.

253
models in the catalog
341
written guides
90
Supported GPUs
100%
francophone

Nos non-negotiables

The lines we will not cross, even if they make the project harder to monetize.

01

Independence

No funding round, no VC, no cloud partnership. We are not paid to recommend one model over another. If we say a model is good, it's because it is.

02

Sovereignty

Running an LLM at home means taking back control of your data. It also means supporting a European ecosystem that exists but gets little attention.

03

Education

Guides are written to be read. No gratuitous jargon, no copy-pasting from the official documentation. Every sentence must serve a purpose.

04

Free of charge

Free site, accessible without an account. No paywall, no premium newsletter, no disguised affiliate marketing.

Who is behind it?

My name is Mohamed Meguedmi, I'm an entrepreneur. In each of the companies I've built, AI has become an everyday tool—coding, writing, analysis, and support. But sending my prompts to OpenAI or Anthropic quickly became a problem: sensitive customer data, costs that rise with usage, and dependence on a provider that can change its rules overnight.

So I switched to local tools—Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio—depending on the machines and use cases. QuelLLM.fr is the test notebook I kept for myself: which model fits on which card, which quantization to keep, and which exact command avoids the pitfalls. I made it public because I couldn’t find an equivalent in French. No company, no team—just this site, updated as I run tests. Find me on LinkedIn.

Where do things stand

The project is alive. A test, a guide, a fix—whenever local AI evolves, it comes through here.

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