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Lightrag vs Ollama
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Lightrag
[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
35.0K
Stars
0
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 | Lightrag | Ollama |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 35.0K | 171.2K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +450 |
| Health score | 80 | 95 |
| Contributors | 273 | 600 |
| Commits per week | 63.6 | 24.5 |
| Open issues | 233 | 3.2K |
| Language | Python | Go |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | v1.4.16 | v0.23.2 |
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