Ollama
Ollama is an open-source, self-hosted app in the AI & LLM Tools category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT and ships a Docker image. It has 184,802 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 184,802
- Forks
- 18,587
- Open issues
- 2,600
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,259
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.40.11Oct 24, 2026
- Created
- Jun 26, 2023
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,259 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,259 |
| Latest release | v0.40.11 (Oct 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 269 |
| Open issues | 2,600 |
| Open pull requests | 1,832 |
| Good first issues | 3 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 26, 2023 |
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About Ollama
Get up and running with Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4, Gemma 3, and other large language models.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/ollama/ollama.
Topics
- llama
- llm
- llms
- go
- golang
- ollama
- mistral
- gemma
- llama3
- deepseek
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Is Ollama free and open source?
Yes. Ollama is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Ollama with Docker?
Yes. Ollama provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. Our step-by-step deploy guide covers the Compose file, HTTPS and backups.
What are the best alternatives to Ollama?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Ollama include Stable Diffusion WebUI, Open-WebUI and Langflow. Ollama itself is a self-hosted alternative to ChatGPT.
Is Ollama actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Ollama was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,259 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.40.11, published Oct 24, 2026. It had 2,600 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.