What is Ollama?
Run open models on your own machine with one command.
Who is Ollama best for?
Ollama is best for developers who want to run open models locally and reach larger hosted ones from coding agents.
Private and offline work
Models you run locally never leave your machine, and local use has no usage limits or fees.
Coding agents on open models
One command starts Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other agents on an open model, and you can switch models without changing your setup.
Machines too small for big models
The cloud plans run large open models such as kimi-k3 and deepseek-v4-pro on Ollama's servers, paid from monthly usage credits.
Teams sharing one model budget
The Team plan pools $1,000 of monthly credits across unlimited users, with central billing and admin in one place.
How much does Ollama cost?
Ollama is free for running models on your own machine, and its cloud plans cost $20 a month for Pro, $100 a month for Max or $500 a month for Team, each with monthly usage credits.
- Unlimited use of models on your own hardware
- Starter cloud credits for a set of starter models
- 1 concurrent cloud request
- $60 of cloud usage credits a month
- Larger pro models
- 3 concurrent requests
- $300 of cloud usage credits a month
- Early access to the newest models
- 10 concurrent requests
- Unlimited users
- $1,000 of usage credits a month, shared across the team
- Central billing and admin, priority support
Pro is $200 a year billed yearly ($16.67 a month). Team is in early access, and Enterprise is priced on request with model access controls and spending budgets per user and API key. Every plan can buy extra credits, charged per million tokens by model: gpt-oss:20b costs $0.07 input and $0.30 output, kimi-k3 $3.00 input and $15.00 output, and some models cost half off-peak (outside 12:00 to 18:00 UTC on weekdays, and all weekend). Included credits reset monthly and do not roll over. Full pricing on ollama.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is Ollama open source?
Yes. Ollama's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
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- Last commit
- 13 Nov
- Repository age
- 3 years
- Latest release
- 9 Nov
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- ollama/ollama
What are the best Ollama alternatives?
Ollama is an open source alternative to LM Studio, Together AI, Hugging Face and Msty. Jan and Modular do the same job and are open source too.
LM StudioFreeFind, download and run open models on Mac, Windows and Linux, with chat, MCP and an OpenAI-compatible local server.
Together AIPaidServerless and dedicated inference for open models, with fine-tuning.
Hugging FaceFreeFind, share and run open AI models, datasets and demo apps, with paid GPUs and hosted inference.
MstyFreeLocal and cloud models in one private workspace.
JanOpen SourceDesktop app that runs open AI models offline on your computer or connects to cloud model APIs.
ModularOpen SourceOne inference stack that runs models across GPUs, CPUs and ASICs.
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Questions about Ollama
What is Ollama?
Run open models on your own machine with one command.
Who is Ollama for?
Ollama is best for developers who want to run open models locally and reach larger hosted ones from coding agents.
Is Ollama free?
Yes. Ollama has a free plan: unlimited use of models on your own hardware.
How much does Ollama cost?
Ollama's paid plans are Pro at $20 per month, Max at $100 per month and Team at $500 per month.
Is Ollama open source?
Yes. Ollama's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Ollama alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are LM Studio, Together AI, Hugging Face, Msty, Jan and Modular.
Where can I try Ollama?
On its official website, ollama.com.
Does Ollama train on my prompts?
No. Ollama says prompts and responses sent to its cloud models are never logged or trained on, and its hosting partners must agree to no logging, no training and zero data retention. Models you run on your own machine never send data anywhere.
Do unused Ollama credits roll over?
No. The credits included with Pro, Max and Team reset each month on your subscription date and do not carry over. Credits you buy separately sit in a balance that Ollama draws on only after the included amount is used up.
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