Lobe Chat vs Ollama

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

Lobe Chat

Open-source AI chat and agent platform with multi-provider support, RAG, plugins, and an agent marketplace — self-hostable ChatGPT alternative.

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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

	Lobe Chat	Ollama
License	—	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	82,802	181,571
Forks	15,922	17,988
Open Issues	972	4,067
Last Commit	Sep 24, 2026	Sep 24, 2026
First Released	May 21, 2023	Jun 26, 2023
Categories	AI Chat	AI Chat
Tags	#chatbot #chat #local ai #LLM #rag	#DeepSeek

GitHub stars over time

Lobe Chat82,802

Ollama

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