Hob vs Ollama

Comparing two open source alternatives to Claude and ChatGPT and Deepseek. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Hob

MIT

Free, MIT-licensed desktop AI assistant that runs open-weight models like Gemma and gpt-oss locally on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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Ollama

MIT

Get up and running with Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4, Gemma 3, Mistral Small 3.1 and other large language models.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Hob	Ollama
License	MIT	MIT
Self-hostable	No	Yes
GitHub Stars	148	184,905
Forks	4	18,622
Open Issues	—	4,445
Last Commit	Oct 27, 2026	Oct 27, 2026
First Released	Oct 14, 2026	Jun 26, 2023
Categories	AI Chat	AI Chat
Tags	#ai #local ai #privacy #offline #mcp	#DeepSeek

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