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Run LLMs locally via simple CLI/API versus OSS VS Code plugin — bring your own LLM
Compare interactively in Explore →Choose Ollama when…
- •You want to run LLMs locally on your machine
- •Privacy or offline use cases require local models
- •You're testing open-source models without API costs
Choose Continue when…
- •You want open-source, self-hostable AI completions
- •You bring your own LLM or use local models
- •You're locked into JetBrains or VS Code
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Category
LLM Infrastructure
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Open Source
Open Source
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GitHub Stars
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Ollama
Dead-simple local LLM serving. Pull and run models like Docker images. Compatible with the OpenAI API format.
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OllamaMCP SDK (TypeScript)
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