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Jan vs Ollama
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Jan
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
42.5K
Stars
+88
Weekly
80/100
Health
Ollama
Get up and running with Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
171.2K
Stars
+450
Weekly
95/100
Health
Quick Take
Adoption
Ollama has the larger GitHub footprint with 171.2K stars.
Momentum
Ollama is currently growing faster at +450 stars this week.
Maintenance
Ollama has the stronger health score at 95/100.
Side-by-side Metrics
| Signal | Jan | Ollama |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 42.5K | 171.2K |
| Weekly growth | +88 | +450 |
| Health score | 80 | 95 |
| Contributors | 171 | 600 |
| Commits per week | 52.2 | 24.5 |
| Open issues | 386 | 3.2K |
| Language | TypeScript | Go |
| License | NOASSERTION | MIT |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 14h ago |
| Last release | v0.7.9 | v0.23.2 |
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