ollama vs unsloth

Llama rivals. Both tagged llama, gemma, deepseek. Six rounds of real GitHub data, an AI referee, and the crowd picks a side.

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ollama/ollama: 186,644 stars, Go. Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.
unslothai/unsloth: 79,320 stars, Python. Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4.1, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

ollama vs unsloth: tale of the tape

GitHub data as of November 11, 2026

ollama has 2.4 times as many GitHub stars as unsloth (186,644 vs 79,320). In the last 6 days, ollama gained more stars: +655 (+0.4%) against +248 (+0.3%) for unsloth. unsloth saw more development in the last 52 weeks with 16,849 commits, against 1,165 for ollama. ollama is the older project (created June 2023), unsloth started in November 2023. ollama is written mainly in Go, unsloth in Python.

	ollama/ollama	unslothai/unsloth
Stars	186,644	79,320
Stars gained, last 6 days	+655	+248
Growth, last 6 days	+0.4%	+0.3%
Avg. stars per day since creation	151	74
Forks	19,013	7,385
Commits, last 52 weeks	1,165	16,849
Open issues	4,619	474
Best Repocharts rank today	#2 in Go	#37 in AI
Language	Go	Python
License	MIT	Apache-2.0
Created	Jun 26, 2023	Nov 29, 2023
Last push	Nov 11, 2026	Nov 11, 2026

Quick answers

Which is more popular, ollama or unsloth?

ollama has 2.4 times as many GitHub stars as unsloth (186,644 vs 79,320) (Repocharts data as of November 11, 2026).

Which is growing faster, ollama or unsloth?

In the last 6 days, ollama gained more stars: +655 (+0.4%) against +248 (+0.3%) for unsloth.

Which is more actively developed?

unsloth saw more development in the last 52 weeks with 16,849 commits, against 1,165 for ollama.

What languages are ollama and unsloth written in?

ollama is written mainly in Go, unsloth in Python.

How does RepoClash compare ollama and unsloth?

RepoClash scores both repositories in six rounds (popularity, momentum, activity, community, maintenance and freshness) from public GitHub data, adds an AI referee's verdict and lets developers vote for their favorite. Star counts are updated daily.