Ollama vs vLLM: Which Is More Actively Maintained? Live GitHub Data
Ollama is built for running models on your own computer through a simple command line and API, while vLLM is an inference and serving engine aimed at high-throughput deployments on GPU servers. This page compares how actively each project is maintained, using live data from GitHub.
GitHub data checked 7 minutes ago.
Side by side
| Measure | Ollama | vLLM |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Active | Active |
| Commits, last 91 days | 372 | 4,411 |
| Same 91 days a year earlier | 265 | 2,767 |
| Change vs last year | +40% | +59% |
| Last commit | 18 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| GitHub stars | 183,742 | 94,075 |
| Stars gained, daily snapshots | +310 in 2 days | +138 in 2 days |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Managed cloud | Not checked | Not checked |
| Visitor rating | —0 of 3 ratings needed | —0 of 3 ratings needed |
What the numbers say
In the last 91 days, Ollama’s default branch received 372 commits and vLLM’s received 4,411. That is about 12 times as many for vLLM, though projects that squash each pull request into one commit show fewer commits for the same work, so treat the gap as a rough signal. Against the same 91 days a year earlier, Ollama is at +40% and vLLM at +59%. The index labels both “active”. Ollama has 183,742 GitHub stars and vLLM has 94,075; stars show how many people bookmarked a project, not how many use it. Their licences differ: Ollama uses MIT and vLLM uses Apache-2.0.
What this comparison does not tell you
These are maintenance signals only. They do not measure speed, output quality, features, documentation or how easy either tool is to run, and we have not benchmarked either tool for this page. A quiet repository can still be a good fit for a stable job, and a busy one can still break between releases. Use the numbers to decide what to check next, not which tool is better.
Each tool’s full record
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How this is measured: commits on each repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; stars, licence and archived flag from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Visitor ratings come from visitors to each tool’s page, not from EvalAITools.