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Ollama

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Run large language models locally on your own machine with a simple CLI and REST API — no cloud, no data sharing.

License

MIT

Language

Go

85
Trust
Strong

Why Ollama?

You need 100% local inference for privacy or offline use

Prototyping with open-weight models like Llama, Mistral, or Gemma

Cutting LLM costs by running small models on your own hardware

Signal Breakdown

What drives the Trust Score

Docker pulls
10M+
Commits (90d)
280 commits
GitHub stars
105k ★
Stack Overflow
900 q's
Community
High
Weighted Trust Score85 / 100

Download Trend

Last 12 months

Tradeoffs & Caveats

Know before you commit

Production at scale — local hardware cannot match cloud throughput

You need GPT-4 class reasoning — local models still lag behind

Pricing

Free tier & paid plans

Free tier

100% free and open source

Paid

Free & open-source

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Learning Resources

Docs, videos, tutorials, and courses

Get Started

Repository and installation options

View on GitHub

github.com/ollama/ollama

macOSbrew install ollama
Linuxcurl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

Quick Start

Copy and adapt to get going fast

# Pull and run a model
ollama pull llama3.2
ollama run llama3.2

# Or call via REST API
curl http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{
  "model": "llama3.2",
  "prompt": "Hello!"
}'

Community Notes

Real experiences from developers who've used this tool