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	186,318	158,096
Forks	18,964	22,983
Open Issues	4,611	162
Last Commit	Nov 8, 2026	Nov 8, 2026
First Released	Jun 26, 2023	Oct 6, 2023
Categories	AI Chat	AI Chat
Tags	#DeepSeek	—

GitHub stars over time

Ollama

Open WebUI158,096

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