Ollama vs Open WebUI

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

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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Open WebUI

User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

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Side-by-side comparison

	Ollama	Open WebUI
License	MIT	—
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	171,246	136,719
Forks	16,084	19,471
Open Issues	3,229	236
Last Commit	May 12, 2026	May 11, 2026
First Released	Jun 26, 2023	Oct 6, 2023
Categories	AI Chat	AI Chat
Tags	#DeepSeek	—

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