ollama.com

Ollama

Who runs Ollama, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest local LLM runtime alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
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Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Jan

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Ollama

Ollama ollama.com

Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Wikidata: software for running large language models (LLMs) on a local computer or in the cloud

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What Ollama tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Ollama’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Ollama

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ollama, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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20 of the 60 sites closest to Ollama match.

  1. 01
    Jan jan.ai English No trackers

    Jan - Open-Source ChatGPT Replacement

    Jan is an open-source alternative to ChatGPT. Run open-source AI models locally or connect to cloud models like GPT, Claude and others.

    Compare Jan with Ollama →
  2. 02
    LM Studio lmstudio.ai English No trackers

    LM Studio Bionic - Agent for Work and Code

    Bionic is LM Studio's agent for work and code. Create documents, slides, PDFs, and software with local or frontier open models.

    Compare LM Studio with Ollama →
  3. 03
    Hugging Face huggingface.co Top 10K No trackers

    Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

    We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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  4. 04
    Replicate replicate.com English 1 tracker

    Replicate - Run AI with an API

    Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API

    Compare Replicate with Ollama →
  5. 05
    Aider aider.chat English No trackers

    Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal

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  6. 06
    Mistral mistral.ai English 2 trackers

    Mistral | #1 in Sovereign AI: Frontier Open Models You Own

    Frontier open-weight models you own and control. Customize with Forge, deploy with Studio, run on-prem, your VPC, or our cloud.

    Compare Mistral with Ollama →
  7. 07
    OpenCode opencode.ai Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent

    OpenCode - The open source coding agent.

    Compare OpenCode with Ollama →
  8. 08
    Cygwin cygwin.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Cygwin

    Unix subsystem for Windows machines

    Compare Cygwin with Ollama →
  9. 09
    OpenRouter openrouter.ai Top 10K English 2 trackers

    OpenRouter

    The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts

    Compare OpenRouter with Ollama →
  10. 10
    DeepSeek deepseek.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeepSeek | Into the Unknown

    DeepSeek is an AI research company focused on building world-leading general artificial intelligence. We develop and open-source frontier LLMs including DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-Coder. Chat with DeepSeek AI or integrate via API.

    Compare DeepSeek with Ollama →
  11. 11
    Moodle moodle.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS

    Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.

    Compare Moodle with Ollama →
  12. 12
    DeepInfra deepinfra.com English No trackers

    Machine Learning Models and Infrastructure | DeepInfra

    DeepInfra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.

    Compare DeepInfra with Ollama →
  13. 13
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions

    RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

    Compare RustDesk with Ollama →
  14. 14
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

    Compare Zotero with Ollama →
  15. 15
    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo

    From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.

    Compare Odoo with Ollama →
  16. 16
    Enlightenment enlightenment.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Enlightenment Main

    window manager for Unix-like operating systems

    Compare Enlightenment with Ollama →
  17. 17
    Strapi strapi.io English 3 trackers

    Strapi - Open-Source TypeScript Headless CMS

    Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, JavaScript/TypeScript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any device.

    Compare Strapi with Ollama →
  18. 18
    Tyk tyk.io English No trackers

    API Management Platform & API Gateway | Tyk.io

    Our API Management platform is fast, scalable, modern. Including an open source API Gateway, Analytics, Dev Portal and Dashboard

    Compare Tyk with Ollama →
  19. 19
    Hoppscotch hoppscotch.io English No trackers

    Hoppscotch • Open source API development ecosystem

    Helps you create requests faster, saving precious time on development.

    Compare Hoppscotch with Ollama →
  20. 20
    Cline cline.bot English No trackers

    Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Open Choice

    Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 11M+ developers worldwide.

    Compare Cline with Ollama →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Ollama’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Ollama uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ollama adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,211
Vector
384-d
Query
82 ms

Competitor map

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