The top alternatives to Ollama are LM Studio, Open WebUI and Meta Llama, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. LM Studio is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks LM Studio as the top alternative to Ollama — Desktop app for running LLMs locally with GPU support.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
LM Studio offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to Ollama in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to Ollama using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are LM Studio, Open WebUI, Meta Llama.
Open WebUI is an open-source alternative to Ollama listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
