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

🤯 Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern design AI chat framework. Supports multiple AI providers (OpenAI / Claude 4 / Gemini / DeepSeek / Ollama / Qwen), Knowledge Base (file upload / RAG ), one click install MCP Marketplace and Artifacts / Thinking. One-click FREE deployment of your private AI Agent application.

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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	74,431	166,322
Forks	14,838	15,201
Open Issues	675	2,739
Last Commit	Mar 28, 2026	Mar 28, 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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