FreeToken is an edge-native Mixture-of-Experts serving engine. It runs frontier-scale open-weight models on consumer NVIDIA GPUs by sharing the work between the GPU, the CPU and host memory, and serves them through OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible HTTP APIs.
FreeToken Desktop can connect to the optional user backend to share this snap's engine, CUDA runtime and models.
Examples
freetoken serve --model ~/models/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
freetoken serve --model Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 1919
freetoken shell
freetoken ctl stats
freetoken checkpoint --model ~/models/<hf-dir> --out ~/models/<ftw-dir>
Requirements
Local inference requires an NVIDIA GPU (RTX 30 series or newer) with driver 580 or newer and the CUDA component:
sudo snap install freetoken+cuda
The remote chat shell and control commands work without the component.
Files
Models downloaded from Hugging Face and runtime caches are kept in ~/snap/freetoken/common. Local models can be read from your home directory. For models on USB drives and other removable media (/media, /mnt), run:
sudo snap connect freetoken:removable-media
An optional background service is disabled until a model is configured with snap set.
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