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LLM (Datasette)

Datasette

Command-line tool and Python library for prompting large language models. It provides one CLI and API across remote providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini and across local models, with a plugin architecture for new backends. Prompts and responses are logged to a local SQLite database, and it supports embeddings and templated prompts. Part of Simon Willison's Datasette ecosystem.

The canonical repository sits under a personal account rather than a Datasette organization. Verified 2026-08-13 via the simonw/llm repository and the llm.datasette.io documentation.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public(GitHub)
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 verified against LICENSE body; full source public; CLI/library with no gated tier (model providers need their own API keys, external to the tool).

Adoption

3 medium confidence
3.0

An established CLI and library distributed on PyPI as the llm package, with a broad plugin ecosystem and wide use across Simon Willison's tooling. PyPI reports 601,475 downloads in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 100K-1M band on a measured signal. The repository shows 12,358 stars, and the latest release is 0.32.

Capability

3 high confidence
3.0

Strong on model breadth and extensibility, but a developer CLI and library rather than a multi-user surface: it lacks the built-in RAG, multimodal and authentication stack of the leading products in this category, hence 3.

  • https://llm.datasette.io/ recorded 2026-08-13

    docs: unified CLI/Python API for remote+local models, plugins, embeddings, templates, SQLite logging

Verified 2026-08-13