Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Ollama
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as Ollama.
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- Registry relations over fetched repository records — the evidence sits on each repository page
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01How this list was built
- Compared against
- Ollama
- Delivery
- Model servers
- Shared use cases
- Local LLM, Private LLM, Private company ChatGPT, AI coding assistant
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 16
02Alternatives
AnythingLLM
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Desktop and server application that turns a document set into a chat workspace, with per-workspace embeddings, multiple model back ends and a built-in vector store.
- Repository
- Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Private company chatgpt · Local llm
authentik
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Identity provider with OpenID Connect, SAML and proxy-based authentication, application-level policies and a forward-auth outpost for services that have no login of their own.
- Repository
- goauthentik/authentik
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Private company chatgpt
Continue
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Open-source IDE extension for VS Code and JetBrains that connects completion and chat to any model back end, including a local server, under a checked-in configuration file.
- Repository
- continuedev/continue
- Stars
- 35,622
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Ai coding assistant · Local llm
Dify
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Platform for building LLM applications: visual workflow editor, retrieval pipelines, agent tools, prompt management and an API layer. Available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.
- Repository
- langgenius/dify
- Stars
- 153,448
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Private company chatgpt
Keycloak
Self-hosted projects
Identity and access management server providing OpenID Connect and SAML single sign-on, user federation, groups and roles for self-hosted applications.
- Repository
- keycloak/keycloak
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 3
Shares: Private company chatgpt
Langfuse
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Tracing, evaluation and prompt management for LLM applications, self-hostable so prompts and responses can stay inside the network being audited.
- Repository
- langfuse/langfuse
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Private company chatgpt
LibreChat
Self-hosted projects
Self-hosted multi-model chat application with authentication, per-conversation model switching, plugins, file upload and an admin configuration file. Familiar interface for staff moving off consumer tools.
- Repository
- danny-avila/LibreChat
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Private company chatgpt · Private llm
LiteLLM
Cloud platforms
Gateway that presents one OpenAI-compatible API in front of many providers and local servers, with per-team keys, budgets, rate limits, fallbacks and request logging.
- Repository
- BerriAI/litellm
- Stars
- 57,216
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 2
Shares: Private llm · Private company chatgpt · Local llm · Ai coding assistant
llama.cpp
Libraries
C++ inference engine for quantised models on CPU, Apple Silicon and GPUs, with a bundled HTTP server. The engine underneath many desktop runtimes and the GGUF quantisation format.
- Repository
- ggml-org/llama.cpp
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Local llm · Private llm
LM Studio
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Desktop application for downloading and running open-weight models locally, with a chat interface and a local OpenAI-compatible server. Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Repository
- none linked
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Local llm · Private llm
LocalAI
Model servers
Drop-in OpenAI-compatible API server that runs text, embedding, image and audio models locally across several back ends, including CPU-only deployments.
- Repository
- mudler/LocalAI
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Local llm · Private llm
Open WebUI
Self-hosted projects
Self-hosted chat interface for local and hosted models, with user accounts, groups, document upload and built-in retrieval. Runs in Docker against Ollama, vLLM or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
- Repository
- open-webui/open-webui
- Stars
- 149,870
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Private company chatgpt · Private llm · Local llm
Qdrant
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Vector search engine written in Rust with payload filtering, hybrid search, quantisation and snapshots. Runs as a single container or a cluster, or as a managed cloud service.
- Repository
- qdrant/qdrant
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Private llm
SGLang
Model servers
Serving framework for large models with prefix caching and structured-output support, aimed at high-throughput deployments and multi-GPU serving.
- Repository
- sgl-project/sglang
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Local llm · Private llm
Tabby
Self-hosted projects
Self-hosted coding assistant with its own inference server, repository-aware context and IDE extensions. Runs entirely inside the network, including on a single GPU.
- Repository
- TabbyML/tabby
- Stars
- 33,834
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Ai coding assistant · Local llm
vLLM
Model servers
High-throughput GPU inference server using paged attention and continuous batching, with an OpenAI-compatible API. Built for many concurrent users rather than single-session use.
- Repository
- vllm-project/vllm
- Stars
- 89,956
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 7
Shares: Local llm · Private llm · Private company chatgpt
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| goauthentik/authentik | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| continuedev/continueopen-source coding agent | 36k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 74%, Community 91%80 |
| langgenius/difyBuild Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack. | 153k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 80%, Contributors 50%, Issues 94%, Community 100%88 |
| keycloak/keycloak | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| langfuse/langfuse | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| danny-avila/LibreChat | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| BerriAI/litellmThe fastest, litest AI Gateway. Rust core with Python SDK. Call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, VertexAI, vLLM, Nvidia NIM] | 57k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 100%, Contributors 50%, Issues 14%, Community 95%83 |
| ggml-org/llama.cpp | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| mudler/LocalAI | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| open-webui/open-webuiUser-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) | 150k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 80%, Contributors 50%, Issues 99%, Community 100%88 |
| qdrant/qdrant | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| sgl-project/sglang | — | Health not measuredunknown |
| TabbyML/tabbySelf-hosted AI coding assistant | 34k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 20%, Contributors 50%, Issues 90%, Community 91%61 |
| vllm-project/vllmA high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs | 90k | Maintenance 100%, Releases 80%, Contributors 50%, Issues 22%, Community 99%81 |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.