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	81,474	178,192
Forks	15,788	17,334
Open Issues	687	3,656
Last Commit	Aug 10, 2026	Aug 10, 2026
First Released	May 21, 2023	Jun 26, 2023
Categories	AI Chat	AI Chat
Tags	#chatbot #chat #local ai #LLM #rag	#DeepSeek

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