What it is

An open-source runtime that downloads and serves open-weight models locally with one command, exposing both its own and an OpenAI-compatible API on localhost. A newer hosted cloud tier runs larger models on Ollama's servers through the same client.

Why it earns a slot

Zero marginal cost and zero data egress — point your app at localhost:11434 and iterate on prompts all day for free. Ideal for offline dev, privacy-sensitive features and CI tests that must not call a paid API.

Know before you commit

Local quality is capped by your RAM — a 7B quantised model is not Claude or GPT, and prompts tuned on it often break when moved to a frontier model. Cloud models do leave your machine.

Getting started

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

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Pricing snapshot

Local runtime free and open source. Optional cloud: Free $0 (one model at a time), Pro $20/mo or $200/yr (3 models, 50x usage), Max $100/mo.

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Evaluate Ollama (https://ollama.com) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Local model runner. An open-source runtime that downloads and serves open-weight models locally with one command, exposing both its own and an OpenAI-compatible API on localhost. A newer hosted cloud tier runs larger models on Ollama's servers through the same client.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): Zero marginal cost and zero data egress — point your app at localhost:11434 and iterate on prompts all day for free. Ideal for offline dev, privacy-sensitive features and CI tests that must not call a paid API.
Watch out for: Local quality is capped by your RAM — a 7B quantised model is not Claude or GPT, and prompts tuned on it often break when moved to a frontier model. Cloud models do leave your machine.
Pricing: Local runtime free and open source. Optional cloud: Free $0 (one model at a time), Pro $20/mo or $200/yr (3 models, 50x usage), Max $100/mo.
Setup: curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
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