Ollama alternatives

Tools that could take the place of Ollama, ranked by the stacks builders put them in rather than by stars alone.

Other runtimes in the runchr registry that do the work of Ollama — a tool somebody pairs with it ranks above a more popular stranger. Read the Ollama page or browse every runtimes.

  • llama.cppRuntimesused with it in a stack133.6k

    Run quantised models locally, with an OpenAI-compatible server.

  • Rapid-MLXRuntimesused with it in a stack4.1k

    OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible MLX inference server for Apple Silicon tuned

  • vLLMRuntimessame type96.5k

    A high-throughput inference and serving engine for GPUs.

  • rtkRuntimessame type85.8k

    CLI proxy that compresses shell command output before it reaches an LLM.

  • caddyRuntimessame type78.9k

    Extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS.

  • rayRuntimessame type44.2k

    Distributed AI compute engine for scaling ML training, tuning, and serving.

  • llamafileRuntimessame type26.6k

    Single-file executables that run LLMs and speech-to-text locally.

  • TensorRT-LLMRuntimessame type15.0k

    Optimized inference runtime for LLMs and visual gen models on NVIDIA GPUs.

  • cactusRuntimessame type14.5k

    On-device inference engine for phones, wearables, and robots.

  • OpenLLMRuntimessame type12.6k

    Self-host open-source LLMs as OpenAI-compatible API endpoints.

  • openvinoRuntimessame type11.1k

    OpenVINO toolkit optimizes and deploys deep learning inference across Intel

  • kimi-k3-in-cRuntimessame type11.0k

    Portable C99 inference engine running Kimi K3 on a single CPU in 8 GB RAM.