What it does
Ollama is a way to run open AI models either locally on your own machine or in the cloud. The site presents it as a route to the latest open models with complete privacy, and says your prompts are never stored or trained on. The homepage links to a download page, a searchable models page, documentation, a pricing page, a blog, and sign-in and sign-up for an account. It also quotes its own usage figures: more than 9 million installs a month, over 1 billion model downloads and more than 200 trillion tokens served. The homepage itself gives no plan names or prices, so cost details for the cloud option are on the separate pricing page and are not verified here.
Capabilities
- Run open models locally on your own computer
- Run the same kind of models in the cloud
- Site states prompts are never stored or trained on
- Searchable model library linked from the site
- Documentation, pricing page and account sign-in
When to use it
- You want to run open models privately on your own machine
- You want a choice between local and cloud runs of open models
- You are building an application on top of open models
