Ollama
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
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Actively maintained
Real momentum
MIT
AI-powered search engine (alternative to Perplexity AI).
Vane is an open-source generative artificial intelligence (genai) project, with 36k GitHub stars and a health score of 43/100. It committed 436 times in the last twelve months across 8 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-04-11 |
| Days since last commit | 128 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 436 |
| Months with activity | 8 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-04-10 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
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Vane is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
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Slowing down. Vane recorded 436 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 8 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-04-11. Last release: 2026-04-10. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Vane is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
14 open-source implementations, 12 of them actively maintained, led by Ollama at 179k stars. Saturation score 45/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
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