Self-Hosted Ollama Alternatives

Ollama is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is AnythingLLM, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ollama and 17 are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Ollama are Instella, Auto-GPT, MiroThinker and LocalAI .

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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. AnythingLLM icon
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    Open-source privacy-focused chatbot platform allowing unlimited document uploads, multi-user and single-user modes, AI-powered chat with documents, vector database and LLM compatibility, customizable interface, message history, secure desktop deployment, and full user controls.

    215 AnythingLLM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  2. Instella icon
     8 likes

    Instella, a large language model tool developed by AMD, provides exceptional performance with open access to model weights and training data, promoting advancements in AI. It bridges the gap between fully open and open weight models by outperforming competitors like Llama-3.2-3B.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • PyTorch
     
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  3.  16 likes

    Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. MiroThinker icon
     9 likes

    MiroThinker is an open-source search agent model, built for tool-augmented reasoning and real-world information seeking, aiming to match the deep research experience of OpenAI Deep Research and Gemini Deep Research.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. LocalAI  icon
     10 likes

    Drop-In OpenAI replacement, On-device, local-first, Generate text/image/speech/music/etc... Backend Agnostic: (llama.cpp, diffusers, bark.cpp, etc...), Optional Distributed Inference(P2P/Federated).

    67 LocalAI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. BabyAGI icon
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    This Python script is an example of an AI-powered task management system. The system uses OpenAI and Pinecone APIs to create, prioritize, and execute tasks. The main idea behind this system is that it creates tasks based on the result of previous tasks and a predefined objective.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. txtai icon
     2 likes

    Embeddings databases are a union of vector indexes (sparse and dense), graph networks and relational databases. This enables vector search with SQL, topic modeling, retrieval augmented generation and more.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  8. LanceDB icon
     2 likes

    LanceDB is an open-source database for vector-search built with persistent storage, which greatly simplifies retrieval, filtering and management of embeddings.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. FastFlowLM icon
     2 likes

    Run LLMs on AMD Ryzen™ AI NPUs in minutes. Just like Ollama - but purpose-built and deeply optimized for the AMD NPUs.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. RWKV Runner icon
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    This project aims to eliminate the barriers of using large language models by automating everything for you. All you need is a lightweight executable program of just a few megabytes. Additionally, this project provides an interface compatible with the OpenAI API, which means...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  11. Marqo icon
     3 likes

    Marqo is an AI-native ecommerce search and product discovery platform built for retail brands in fashion, beauty, footwear, and home goods.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Snapcraft
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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