Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.
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Ollama has the larger GitHub footprint with 171.2K stars.
Ollama is currently growing faster at +450 stars this week.
Ollama has the stronger health score at 95/100.
| Signal | Local Deep Research | Ollama |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 7.2K | 171.2K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +450 |
| Health score | 75 | 95 |
| Contributors | 49 | 600 |
| Commits per week | 110.8 | 24.5 |
| Open issues | 265 | 3.2K |
| Language | Python | Go |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 20h ago | 19h ago |
| Last release | v1.6.9 | v0.23.2 |
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