Pick Ollama if
developers and privacy-sensitive teams who have RAM/VRAM and want Llama/Gemma/DeepSeek without a per-seat chat plan.
Read the Ollama pageOllama vs SGLang
Our take
Pick Ollama if developers and privacy-sensitive teams who have RAM/VRAM and want Llama/Gemma/DeepSeek without a per-seat chat plan. Pick SGLang if inference engineers who already have GPUs and will run sglang serve (or the Cookbook one-click recipe), not a team looking for a $20 chat plan. Skip Ollama if someone who wants a polished hosted chat with browsing and image gen and will not download a 4–70B weight file.
Best for
Ollama Keeping weights and prompts on hardware you control
SGLang Serve tokens (or diffusion frames) on GPUs you already own
Free plan
Ollama $0 · no license fee. You pay electricity, disk, and GPU. The desktop app and CLI are free to download
SGLang $0
Lowest paid
Ollama
SGLang Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
Ollama Claude Code
SGLang
Runs where
Ollama Local or hosted
SGLang Hosted
Watch out
Ollama Hardware is the bill
SGLang You bring the GPU
Last checked
Ollama 2026-10-19 · ollama.com
SGLang 2026-10-22 · github.com/sgl-project/sglang/blob
Which one, then?
Pick SGLang if
inference engineers who already have GPUs and will run sglang serve (or the Cookbook one-click recipe), not a team looking for a $20 chat plan.
Read the SGLang page