Chat with local and open-source LLMs right inside your browser
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According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, sidellama (chromewebstore.google.com) is an AI platform indexed under Large Language Models (LLMs) generating 0 monthly visits with a month-over-month traffic delta of +0 (0.0%). Its primary geographic market is Global (— traffic share), and it operates on a Free pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include Ollama (9.42M visits/mo), DeepSeek (372.76M visits/mo), Open WebUI (804.53K visits/mo).
Hooks straight into Ollama and lets me chat with the webpage. Exactly what I wanted.
Clean open source extension. Works great with Groq too.
Solid.
Zero telemetry, local models, web search integration. 10/10 open source win.
AI-synthesized perspectives grounded in live site inspection, pricing structure, and category benchmarks — presented as editorial viewpoints rather than individual customer testimonials.
Point sidellama at a local Ollama or LM Studio server, or use open-source models through Groq.
Share the text of the page you are reading, or its HTML source in development mode, with a configurable character limit.
Create and modify personal assistants with system prompts and custom instructions for different tasks.
Run asynchronous searches through DuckDuckGo or Brave and answer questions using live public data.
The extension is open source, with the code available in a public GitHub repository.
sidellama is a small Chrome extension that turns your browser into a chat client for open-source language models. Rather than locking you into one provider, it connects to whatever model access you already have: a local Ollama server, a local LM Studio server, or open-source models hosted through Groq. The extension itself is lightweight (under a megabyte) and open source, with the code published on GitHub.
What makes it browser-augmented is page context. When you are reading an article or documentation, you can feed the visible text of that page into the conversation, or switch to HTML mode to share the page source — a developer-oriented option that is intentionally resource intensive and paired with a character limit so you do not blow past your context window. Web search augmentation adds live public data: type a query, choose DuckDuckGo or Brave as the source, and sidellama runs an asynchronous search to ground its answer.
A persona system lets you build and modify your own assistants. You can create, configure, and switch between different system prompts and custom instructions, so the same model can act as a coding helper, a summarizer, or a research companion depending on the persona you select. The listing shows version 0.0.1, last updated August 29, 2024, with a small but strongly positive rating base and no data collection declared by the developer.
Keep model inference on your own machine while chatting over the page you are reading, without sending content to a third party.
Switch to HTML mode to share page source with a model through a local server for quick debugging questions.
Use web search augmentation with DuckDuckGo or Brave to answer questions grounded in current public information.
Set up distinct system prompts and custom instructions to switch between summarization, drafting, and analysis roles quickly.
Side-by-side telemetry comparison of competing AI tools in the same primary category
| Rank | AI Tool | Monthly Visits | MoM Growth | Direct traffic share | Pricing | Head-to-Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | sidellama | 0 | — | — | Free | Current |
| 1 | Ollama | 9.42M | +4.3% | 43% direct | Free, Freemium, Paid | vs Ollama |
| 2 | DeepSeek | 372.76M | +4.3% | 78% direct | Freemium | vs DeepSeek |
| 3 | Open WebUI | 804.53K | -2.8% | 37% direct | Freemium | vs Open WebUI |
| 4 | Sider | 2.64M | -10.6% | 64% direct | Freemium | vs Sider |
| 5 | ChatHub | 322.62K | -13.9% | 59% direct | Freemium | vs ChatHub |
| 6 | Merlin AI | 1.38M | +13.1% | 50% direct | Freemium | vs Merlin AI |
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