Ollama Alternatives

Ollama is described as 'Facilitates local deployment of Llama 3, Code Llama, and other language models, enabling customization and offline AI development. Perfect for creating personalized AI chatbots and writing tools' and is a very popular AI Chatbot in the ai tools & services category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ollama for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Ollama alternative is DeepSeek, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ollama are Jan.ai, AnythingLLM, Alpaca - Ollama Client and LM Studio.

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Ollama alternatives are mainly Large Language Model (LLM) Tools, but if you're looking for AI Chatbots or AI Writing Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Ollama.
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  1. LM-Kit.NET icon
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    LM-Kit.NET is a versatile SDK for integrating Large Language Models (LLM) into C# applications. It provides advanced AI features like text generation, Natural Language Processing (NLP), data retrieval, content enhancement, and translation, enabling diverse industry use cases with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. NexaSDK icon
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    Run frontier LLMs and VLMs with day-0 model support across GPU, NPU, and CPU, with comprehensive runtime coverage for PC (Python/C++), mobile (Android & iOS), and Linux/IoT (Arm64 & x86 Docker). Supporting OpenAI GPT-OSS, IBM Granite-4, Qwen-3-VL, Gemma-3n, Ministral-3, and more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Empler AI icon
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    Automate Unresolved Go-to-Market Challenges and Empower Your CRM, Marketing, and Sales Teams to Achieve Desired Results with Multi-agent Framework, B2B Database Creation, Agentic Workflows, and Integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Council icon
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    Council is an open-source platform for rapidly developing customized generative AI applications using collaborating ‘agents’.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Jellybox icon
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    Run AI models locally and entirely offline.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  6. Create autonomous agents: Each agent has a unique personality and can accumulate its own memories

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Run AI models locally on your device. Foundry Local provides on-device inference with complete data privacy, no Azure subscription required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  9.  1 like

    Framework for building actionable agents to achieve goals specified by user, powered by OpenAI GPT-4 and GPT-3.5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. RamaLama icon
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    RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Python
     
  11. Osaurus icon
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    Native, Apple Silicon–only local LLM server. Similar to Ollama, but built on Apple's MLX for maximum performance on M-series chips. SwiftUI app + SwiftNIO server with OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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