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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

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

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 ChatLobe Chat
OllamaOllama
License—MIT
Self-hostableYesYes
GitHub Stars84,410186,318
Forks16,14518,964
Open Issues1,2944,611
Last CommitNov 8, 2026Nov 8, 2026
First ReleasedMay 21, 2023Jun 26, 2023
Categories
AI Chat
AI Chat
Tags
#chatbot#chat#local ai#LLM#rag
#DeepSeek

GitHub stars over time

GitHub stars over time
Lobe Chat84,410
Ollama

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