Ollama vs Pi

Comparing two open source alternatives to 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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Pi

MIT

Open-source AI agent toolkit with an interactive coding agent CLI, unified multi-provider LLM API, and TUI libraries.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Ollama	Pi
License	MIT	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	171,805	52,217
Forks	16,195	6,250
Open Issues	3,254	38
Last Commit	May 20, 2026	May 20, 2026
First Released	Jun 26, 2023	Aug 9, 2025
Categories	AI Chat	AI Coding Agents
Tags	#DeepSeek	#ai #ai agent #agents #cli #LLM

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