r/LocalLLaMA
Founded March 2023 · Public — anyone can post
Subreddit to discuss locally hostable AI, hi william
Members
853,150
853K
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Published rules
5
1 mention promotion — quoted below
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/LocalLLaMA
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion | 52% | 1,741 |
| News / link | 25% | 2,407 |
| Question | 9% | 49 |
| Show & tell | 7% | 1,270 |
| Lessons / story | 6% | 954 |
| How-to | 1% | 4 |
Based on 71 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 1,500
- Top 10% score
- 3,554
- Text posts
- 32%
- Got no replies
- 1%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 18:00 UTC, Mon 17:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is allowed at a ratio — contribute before you post about yourself.
- Limit Self-Promotion: - The 1/10th rule is a good guideline: self-promotion should not be more than 10% of your content. - Affiliation must be disclosed: No engagement farming, No “I found this..”, etc.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Highly technical and specific, often including code snippets or detailed configurations.
- — Directly addresses the post's content with relevant information or counter-arguments.
- — Provides first-hand experience or solutions to common problems.
- — Engages in debate and critical analysis of models, hardware, or industry news.
- — Humorous and uses community-specific jargon, especially in response to funny posts.
- — Offers practical advice or resources.
What r/LocalLLaMA's rules say about promotion
1 of 5 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Limit Self-Promotion
rule 4 of 5
- The 1/10th rule is a good guideline: self-promotion should not be more than 10% of your content. - Affiliation must be disclosed: No engagement farming, No “I found this..”, etc.
The other 4
- Please search before asking
- Off-Topic Posts
- Low Effort Posts
- Follow Reddit's Content Policy
Read from r/LocalLLaMA’s published rules on Sep 3. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/LocalLLaMA — frequently asked
How many members does r/LocalLLaMA have?
r/LocalLLaMA has 853,150 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 19. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/LocalLLaMA growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/LocalLLaMA yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 7; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/LocalLLaMA?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/LocalLLaMA yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/LocalLLaMA created?
r/LocalLLaMA was founded in March 2023 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/LocalLLaMA?
r/LocalLLaMA publishes 5 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Limit Self-Promotion”, says: - The 1/10th rule is a good guideline: self-promotion should not be more than 10% of your content. - Affiliation must be disclosed: No engagement farming, No “I found this..”, etc. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/LocalLLaMA for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/LocalLLaMA into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/LocalLLaMA's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/LocalLLaMA's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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