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Ollama vs Sourcegraph

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Ollama and Sourcegraph (Helping developers search, understand, and write code in complex codebases with AI) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Ollama (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over Sourcegraph (rank #152) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 52). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Ollama is slightly ahead of Sourcegraph. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Ollama is slightly ahead of Sourcegraph. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Sourcegraph is slightly ahead of Ollama. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Ollama is ahead of Sourcegraph. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sourcegraph is clearly ahead of Ollama.

Ollama carries 190,304 GitHub stars across 4 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 241 external contributors on record. Sourcegraph shows 33,115 stars across 601 public repos, 68 active in the last 90 days and 17 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Ollama's footprint is roughly 5.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Ollama is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Sourcegraph looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricOllamaSourcegraph
Ranking
Overall rank#122#152
Pillars
Overall5452
Code6256
Education7569
Community4648
Reach5642
Momentum5679
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars190,30433,115
Forks18,4564,312
Public repos4601
Active repos (90d)368
External contributors24117
Avg polish6059
Avg AI-readiness5433

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