Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Ollama
The 20 closest local LLM runtime alternatives to Ollama, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Ollama? The closest matches are Mistral, OpenCode and RustDesk. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 18 ms
01 · Entity
About Ollama
Ollama ollama.com
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Wikidata: software for running large language models (LLMs) on a local computer or in the cloud
Summary by Claude
Open-source software for downloading, running and managing open-weight large language models on a local computer, plus hosted cloud model access, with a CLI, desktop app, local REST API and a model library.
- Who it’s for
- Developers and AI enthusiasts
- Business model
- Free open-source software with paid cloud model subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ollama’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Ollama
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ollama, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Mistral | #1 in Sovereign AI: Frontier Open Models You Own
Frontier open-weight models you own and control. Customize with Forge, deploy with Studio, run on-prem, your VPC, or our cloud.
Very close cos 0.915 - 02
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
OpenCode - The open source coding agent.
Very close cos 0.914 - 03
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Very close cos 0.913 - 04
American artificial intelligence research organization
Very close cos 0.910 - 05
OpenRouter
The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
Very close cos 0.908 - 06
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Very close cos 0.906 - 07 Very close cos 0.903
- 08
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Very close cos 0.904 - 09
Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS
Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.
Very close cos 0.897 - 10
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close cos 0.898 - 11
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close cos 0.898 - 12
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Very close cos 0.895 - 13
The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
Very close cos 0.896 - 14
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.893 - 15
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Close cos 0.892 - 16
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Close cos 0.890 - 17
Free and private office suite, no forced AI — LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free office suite
Close cos 0.891 - 18
Apache OpenOffice - Official Site - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
The official home page of the Apache OpenOffice open source project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base.
Close cos 0.890 - 19
American cloud-based business management software company
Close cos 0.892 - 20
ImageMagick | Mastering Digital Image Alchemy
ImageMagick is a powerful open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats.
Close cos 0.887
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ollama.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Ollama uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Ollama is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS teresa.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DIZw6otVDoS77yKYta3faJP1mBbFDQN5JoaF3vkKEnw
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=F8Vn3Yc9hBCSonil0zJp46Od0x_yluJa6z_hZRF8r6g
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-0PxFtYM0JvCgZQMiMAIapw8p
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_BNagsYOl9vcrtb8jDs1jfN
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ollama adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Cloudflare · not on ollama.com 8/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ollama.com 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on ollama.com 5/20
- nginx · not on ollama.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ollama.com 4/20
- HubSpot · not on ollama.com 4/20
- Miro · not on ollama.com 4/20
- OpenAI 4/20
- Stripe · not on ollama.com 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on ollama.com 3/20
- Notion · not on ollama.com 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on ollama.com 3/20