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    "a": {
      "slug": "ollama",
      "name": "Ollama",
      "vendor": "Ollama Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://ollama.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Open-source model runner for macOS, Windows and Linux, with a local API and a library of downloadable models.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ollama",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ollama.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ollama.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ollama.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama",
      "license": "MIT (server, CLI and desktop app). Ollama Cloud is a closed service under the ollama.com terms, and each model carries its own licence",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "docker.io/ollama/ollama"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "ollama"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "ollama"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The local API at http://localhost:11434 takes no credential. It binds 127.0.0.1, answers a foreign Host header with 403 while bound to loopback, and allows cross-origin calls from 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 unless `OLLAMA_ORIGINS` adds more. Anything that reaches the port can generate, pull, push, create, copy and delete models. Cloud models through the local server need `ollama signin`, which signs requests with the install's own key. Direct calls to https://ollama.com/api and /v1 need a Bearer API key from ollama.com/settings/keys, which doesn't expire and has no scopes, and is revoked from the same page (https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api/authentication.mdx).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The server, CLI and desktop app are free under MIT with no account. Ollama Cloud has five plans on ollama.com/pricing. Free ($0, starter usage credits, starter models, 1 concurrent request), Pro ($20 a month or $200 a year, $60 of usage credits a month, 3 concurrent requests), Max ($100 a month, $300 of credits, 10 concurrent requests), Team ($500 a month, $1,000 of shared credits, unlimited users) and Enterprise (custom). Usage is priced per model by the token, and the page doesn't say whether the Free plan needs a card (checked 2026-10-03).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the source (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 181200,
        "npmWeekly": 871543,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-03"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.ollama.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.ollama.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/main/docs/openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "inference.llm",
        "embed.text",
        "inference.decision",
        "web.search",
        "web.fetch"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "local",
        "self-hosted",
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "openai-compatible",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker",
        "go",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "pre-1.0",
        "no-auth"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 56.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 570,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 75,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 28,
          "transparency": 59
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-04-29. CERT Polska published CVE-2026-42248 and CVE-2026-42249 (9.8 each). The Windows app accepted downloaded updates without a signature check and took the file name from the server's response, and it installs updates silently, so whoever could answer the update request could run code on the machine. CERT Polska tested 0.12.10 to 0.17.5, and the Windows check stayed a stub returning success until v0.23.3 on 12 May 2026, whose notes list the fix only as `app: harden update flows`. CERT Polska says the maintainers didn't respond with details or the vulnerable range, and Ollama published no advisory. Fixed, but not disclosed by the vendor, -4. https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/04/CVE-2026-42248/; https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.23.3"
        ],
        "verdict": "An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the 15 native operations and llms.txt with 68 links to Markdown pages. No credential on the local API, and any caller that reaches it can pull, push, create and delete models.",
        "bestFor": "A person or an agent that wants an open model behind a local API with one install, and for pointing Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode at local or cloud models.",
        "strengths": [
          "An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the 15 native operations and llms.txt with 68 links to Markdown pages",
          "Native, OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible routes on one local port, with `ollama launch` for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode",
          "28 releases in the 90 days to 3 October 2026, and official Python and JavaScript libraries released on 28 September",
          "Local prompts stay on the machine, and `OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD=1` turns off cloud models and web search",
          "Binds 127.0.0.1 by default and refuses foreign Host headers while bound to loopback"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No credential on the local API, and any caller that reaches it can pull, push, create and delete models",
          "No GitHub security advisory, against 12 CVEs on NVD since October 2025",
          "The Windows updater installed unsigned files until v0.23.3 on 12 May 2026, fixed under a release note that didn't mention security",
          "The desktop app checks ollama.com every hour with a signed request, even with automatic updates off, and no documented way to stop it",
          "A default context of 4k tokens below 24 GiB of VRAM, where the docs say agents need 64,000"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `\"stream\": false` for one JSON body. The native routes stream NDJSON by default",
          "Set `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000` or `options.num_ctx` before agent work. The default is 4k below 24 GiB of VRAM",
          "Back off on a 503. It means the queue (512 by default) is full",
          "Put an authenticating proxy in front before binding past 127.0.0.1. The server checks no credential",
          "Expect model names with a `cloud` tag to run on Ollama's servers. They need `ollama signin` and fail with `OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD=1`"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 56.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 75,
          "maintenance": 81,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 28,
          "transparency": 66
        },
        "provenanceScore": 52
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh   # macOS and Linux; Windows: irm https://ollama.com/install.ps1 | iex\nollama pull gemma4:e2b",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"gemma4:e2b\",\n    \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello in one sentence.\"}],\n    \"stream\": false\n  }'",
        "claudeCode": "ollama launch claude   # or: ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=ollama ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=\"\" ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434 claude --model qwen3.5"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/ollama"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Ollama Cloud Pro",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "$60 of usage credits a month, 3 concurrent requests. $200 a year"
        },
        {
          "item": "Ollama Cloud Max",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 100,
          "note": "$300 of usage credits a month, 10 concurrent requests"
        },
        {
          "item": "Ollama Cloud Team",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 500,
          "note": "$1,000 of shared usage credits a month, unlimited users, 10 concurrent requests"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Ollama Inc.",
        "domain": "ollama.com",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://ollama.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://ollama.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated May 2026) name Ollama Inc., under California law with arbitration in San Francisco. The privacy policy was last updated in March 2026.",
          "ollama.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. SECURITY.md sends reports to hello@ollama.com.",
          "status.ollama.com doesn't resolve, and we found no other status page for Ollama Cloud.",
          "The API an agent calls runs on the owner's machine, so there's no shared endpoint to check. Ollama Cloud answers at https://ollama.com/api and /v1."
        ],
        "score": 52
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ollama.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "ollama",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "ollama/ollama",
            "version": "v0.40.1",
            "released": "2026-10-07",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:23:02.6097517Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "ollama",
            "version": "0.6.4",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:23:02.362375923Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "ollama",
            "version": "0.6.3",
            "released": "2026-09-29",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:23:02.244609581Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 182568,
        "npmWeekly": 896480,
        "pypiWeekly": 3497787,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://ollama.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:41.845996296Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.ollama.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:42.41869475Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "ollama.com",
          "registered": "2017-05-08",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/ollama.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:52.948193398Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://ollama.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:27.211563974Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:27.211563974Z",
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          },
          {
            "url": "https://ollama.com/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:29.35897412Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:29.35897412Z",
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      }
    },
    "answer": "Ollama scores 56.3 (C) on agent readiness against TextGen's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TextGen leads on security \u0026 auth.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "text-generation-webui",
      "name": "TextGen",
      "vendor": "oobabooga",
      "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/oobabooga",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Open-source desktop and browser app for running language models on the owner's hardware, formerly text-generation-webui. With `--api` it serves an OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible local API with tool calling, vision, embeddings and image generation.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/text-generation-webui",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/text-generation-webui.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/text-generation-webui.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/text-generation-webui.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen",
      "license": "AGPL-3.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The API takes one optional key from `--api-key`, off by default, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` on the OpenAI routes and as `x-api-key` on `/v1/messages`. A second key from `--admin-key` guards model and LoRA loading, unloading and listing, and equals the API key when unset. Keys are set at launch, have no scopes and change only with a restart. Without `--listen` or `--public-api` the server binds 127.0.0.1, rejects other Host headers and limits CORS to localhost. The web UI has no login unless `--gradio-auth` is set.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and AGPL-3.0, with no account, card or paid edition. Portable builds and source are on GitHub (checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs folder or the API source (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 47700,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen/wiki",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "embed.text",
        "image.generate"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "local",
        "self-hosted",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "account-free",
        "openai-compatible",
        "open-weights",
        "streaming",
        "mcp",
        "docker",
        "no-telemetry"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-05-20",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 45.1,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 775,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "categoryRank": 15,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 50,
          "maintenance": 24,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 51,
          "schema": 61,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 49
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-03-18. Two Critical advisories at 9.1. GHSA-jg96-p5p6-q3cv (CVE-2026-35050) let a user of the web UI write Python files through a path traversal in extension settings and run them, in 4.1 and earlier, fixed in 4.1.1. GHSA-4p45-76cc-7p62 let a caller write or delete files through a character name on instances started with `--listen`, fixed in 4.0. Both fixed and published, -2. https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen/security/advisories/GHSA-jg96-p5p6-q3cv",
          "2026-03-18. GHSA-fpwc-4mvr-7jpr (High, 7.1). `/v1/chat/completions` and `/v1/completions` fetched any `image_url` from the server side, so a caller could reach internal addresses, in 4.1 and earlier. Fixed in 4.1.1 and published, -1. https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen/security/advisories/GHSA-fpwc-4mvr-7jpr",
          "2025-10-13 to 2026-04-03. Seven more advisories in the year, four High and three Moderate, among them a file read through an uploaded symbolic link, four path traversals in preset, grammar, template and prompt loading, an SSRF in the superbooga extensions and a Gradio path-check bypass fixed in 4.3. All published with fixes, -1. https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen/security"
        ],
        "verdict": "AGPL-3.0 with no telemetry, and a local API on 127.0.0.1:5000 that checks the Host header, limits CORS to localhost and separates an admin key from the caller's key. No release since v4.9 on 20 May 2026, no code commits since 31 May, no test suite, and ten security advisories in the year, all fixed.",
        "bestFor": "A person who wants one app for several backends (llama.cpp, ExLlamaV3, Transformers) with an OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoint, LoRA training and image generation.",
        "strengths": [
          "AGPL-3.0, with analytics switched off in the source and a README that states zero telemetry",
          "One server answers `/v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/completions` and Anthropic's `/v1/messages`, with tool calling and streaming",
          "Since v4.9 the API rejects Host headers other than localhost and 127.0.0.1 and limits CORS to localhost unless `--listen` or `--public-api` is set",
          "A separate `--admin-key` guards model and LoRA loading, apart from the `--api-key` callers use",
          "Ten security advisories published on GitHub with patched versions named, the newest on 3 April 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No release since v4.9 on 20 May 2026 and no code commit on `main` or `dev` since 31 May 2026",
          "No test suite. The seven GitHub workflows only build release packages on manual dispatch",
          "807 open issues and 40 open pull requests, with no SECURITY.md or disclosure address",
          "Two Critical advisories (9.1) published on 18 March 2026, both path traversals in the web UI, fixed in 4.0 and 4.1.1",
          "The API key is off by default, set only at launch, and has no scopes or per-client keys",
          "No rate limits, error list or published OpenAPI file in the docs. The schema is served only by a running server at `/docs`"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask the owner to launch with `--api`. Nothing listens on port 5000 without it, and a model must be loaded first",
          "Call `http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1`. Any Host header other than localhost or 127.0.0.1 gets 400 `Invalid host header` unless `--listen` is set",
          "Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer` on OpenAI routes and as `x-api-key` on `/v1/messages`. Model loading needs the admin key",
          "Read `http://127.0.0.1:5000/docs` or `modules/api/typing.py` for parameters. `max_tokens` defaults to 512 on chat completions",
          "Run tool calls yourself. The API returns `finish_reason: \"tool_calls\"` and executes nothing on the server",
          "Use the repository name `oobabooga/textgen`. The old `text-generation-webui` URL redirects"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 45.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 50,
          "maintenance": 24,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 51,
          "schema": 61,
          "security": 40,
          "transparency": 70
        },
        "provenanceScore": 27
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "git clone https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen\ncd textgen\npython -m venv venv\nsource venv/bin/activate\npip install -r requirements/portable/requirements.txt --upgrade\npython server.py --portable --api --auto-launch",
        "http": "curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}], \"temperature\": 0.6, \"top_p\": 0.95, \"top_k\": 20}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/text-generation-webui"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "github.com/oobabooga",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/oobabooga/textgen/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The project belongs to a developer who publishes as oobabooga. The LICENSE is the AGPL-3.0 text and names no legal entity, and the README acknowledges a grant from Andreessen Horowitz in August 2023.",
          "No vendor domain. The README links only the GitHub repository, its wiki, a subreddit, a Substack and a Hugging Face space.",
          "No terms of use and no privacy policy were found in the repository, the README or the wiki, so both fields are left out. The README states zero telemetry.",
          "No SECURITY.md (the Security tab says none is set up) and no security.txt of the project's own.",
          "There's no hosted endpoint. The API answers on the owner's machine, at 127.0.0.1:5000 by default."
        ],
        "score": 27
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/text-generation-webui.json"
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "Model platform",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Ollama Inc.",
        "b": "oobabooga",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "MIT (server, CLI and desktop app). Ollama Cloud is a closed service under the ollama.com terms, and each model carries its own licence",
        "b": "AGPL-3.0",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-01",
        "b": "2026-05-20",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-05-01",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-03-01",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/text-generation-webui.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/text-generation-webui.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Ollama (C)\n\nGood for: A person or an agent that wants an open model behind a local API with one install, and for pointing Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode at local or cloud models.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 61\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 50\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 24\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 49\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: No credential on the local API, and any caller that reaches it can pull, push, create and delete models\n\n### TextGen (E)\n\nGood for: A person who wants one app for several backends (llama.cpp, ExLlamaV3, Transformers) with an OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoint, LoRA training and image generation.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 40 against 28\n\nWatch for: No release since v4.9 on 20 May 2026 and no code commit on `main` or `dev` since 31 May 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Ollama | TextGen | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 51 | Ollama +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 61 | Ollama +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 50 | Ollama +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 28 | 40 | TextGen +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 24 | Ollama +57 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 49 | Ollama +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **56.3 · C** | **45.1 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Ollama | TextGen |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Ollama Inc. | oobabooga |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (server, CLI and desktop app). Ollama Cloud is a closed service under the ollama.com terms, and each model carries its own licence | AGPL-3.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-20 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-01 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-03-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |\n| Popularity | 181k stars, 872k npm/wk | 48k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Ollama.** An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the 15 native operations and llms.txt with 68 links to Markdown pages. No credential on the local API, and any caller that reaches it can pull, push, create and delete models.\n\n**TextGen.** AGPL-3.0 with no telemetry, and a local API on 127.0.0.1:5000 that checks the Host header, limits CORS to localhost and separates an admin key from the caller's key. No release since v4.9 on 20 May 2026, no code commits since 31 May, no test suite, and ten security advisories in the year, all fixed.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Ollama\n\n1. Send `\"stream\": false` for one JSON body. The native routes stream NDJSON by default\n2. Set `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=64000` or `options.num_ctx` before agent work. The default is 4k below 24 GiB of VRAM\n3. Back off on a 503. It means the queue (512 by default) is full\n4. Put an authenticating proxy in front before binding past 127.0.0.1. The server checks no credential\n5. Expect model names with a `cloud` tag to run on Ollama's servers. They need `ollama signin` and fail with `OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD=1`\n\n### TextGen\n\n1. Ask the owner to launch with `--api`. Nothing listens on port 5000 without it, and a model must be loaded first\n2. Call `http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1`. Any Host header other than localhost or 127.0.0.1 gets 400 `Invalid host header` unless `--listen` is set\n3. Send the key as `Authorization: Bearer` on OpenAI routes and as `x-api-key` on `/v1/messages`. Model loading needs the admin key\n4. Read `http://127.0.0.1:5000/docs` or `modules/api/typing.py` for parameters. `max_tokens` defaults to 512 on chat completions\n5. Run tool calls yourself. The API returns `finish_reason: \"tool_calls\"` and executes nothing on the server\n6. Use the repository name `oobabooga/textgen`. The old `text-generation-webui` URL redirects\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Ollama or TextGen?\n\nOllama scores 56.3 (C) on agent readiness against TextGen's 45.1 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. TextGen leads on security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Can an agent call Ollama and TextGen without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Ollama. No hosted endpoint is listed for TextGen.\n\n### Are Ollama and TextGen open source?\n\nYes. Ollama is open source (MIT (server, CLI and desktop app). Ollama Cloud is a closed service under the ollama.com terms, and each model carries its own licence). TextGen is open source (AGPL-3.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ollama-vs-text-generation-webui.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ollama-vs-text-generation-webui.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"ollama\", \"b\": \"text-generation-webui\"}`. 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