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MLC LLM vs Ollama: catalog facts
MLC LLM	Ollama
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Freemium Running models locally is free. The optional hosted cloud inference starts at $20 a month.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Broad hardware support across Vulkan, CUDA, ROCm, Metal and WebGPU OpenAI-compatible REST server	One command to download and run a model, with no Python environment to build first A REST API on localhost, so editors, scripts and agents can use the local model
Aimed at developers rather than casual users Model compilation adds setup steps	Model quality is bounded by your hardware; large models need a lot of VRAM or unified memory The company now also sells cloud inference, so read carefully which mode you are in
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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