Local LLM Setup Windows 2026 Guide

Want to run local LLMs on Windows? No Linux needed, no WSL2 required. With just two tools — Ollama and Open WebUI — you can get it done in three steps.

💡 What You Will Learn

Want to run local LLMs on Windows? No Linux needed, no WSL2 required. With just two tools — Ollama and Open WebUI — you can get it done in three steps.

📜 Table of Contents

• Step 1: InstallationOllama
• Step 2: InstallationOpen WebUI
• Summary

Step 1: InstallationOllama

# 
ollama pull qwen2.5:7b

# 
ollama run qwen2.5:7b

Step 2: InstallationOpen WebUI

# pipInstallation/Setup
pip install open-webui

# Start
open-webui serve

|:----|:---:|:--------|:--------| | Qwen 2.5 7B | 4.5GB | 8GB RAM || | Llama 3.1 8B | 5GB | 8GB RAM || | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | 4GB | 8GB RAM || | Mistral 7B | 4GB | 8GB RAM ||

Summary