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🔐🦙🤖 Private & Local Ollama Self-Hosted AI Assistant

Transform your local N8N instance into a powerful chat interface using any local & private Ollama model, with zero cloud dependencies ☁️. This workflow creates a structured chat experience…

Use case
Personal Productivity
Difficulty
beginner
Author
Joseph LePage
Updated
Jun 7, 2026

Required custom nodes

  • chainLlm
  • lmOllama
  • chatTrigger

🔐🦙🤖 Private & Local Ollama Self-Hosted AI Assistant

A working n8n automation that runs against a local model via Ollama - 45,130 views on the n8n template library. Transform your local N8N instance into a powerful chat interface using any local & private Ollama model, with zero cloud dependencies ☁️. This workflow creates a structured chat experience…

What it does

Transform your local N8N instance into a powerful chat interface using any local & private Ollama model, with zero cloud dependencies ☁️. This workflow creates a structured chat experience… It chains 5 nodes, integrating chainLlm, lmOllama, chatTrigger.

Requirements

  • n8n (self-hosted, free) to run the workflow
  • Ollama serving a local model
  • A GPU with enough VRAM for your chosen model (see best model per GPU)

Import it

Open the workflow on the n8n template library and click Use workflow to import it into your self-hosted n8n, then point its model node at your local Ollama endpoint (http://localhost:11434).

Use it with

n8n · Ollama


Workflow by Joseph LePage on the n8n template library. We link to the original to import; credit and the workflow JSON belong to its author.