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Ollama pricing (Oct 2026): plans and free tier

Ollama pricing as read on Oct 25, 2026: free tier: $0, pay-as-you-go usage credits for cloud models; paid: Paid plan $20/month ($16.67/month billed annually) with $60 of monthly usage credits; $100/month with $300; $500/month with $1,000 shared; Enterprise custom. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page. Reported, not Tested.

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Evidence: Reported. Plan names and prices were read from Ollama's own pages on 2026-10-25 (America/Chicago). We did not buy or run any plan, so we say nothing about value or output quality. Plan details change often; confirm on the vendor's page before you pay.

Ollama plans and prices

The common way to run open models locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a cloud option and an MIT-licensed open-source core. Pricing model as listed: Free + paid cloud plans.

Ollama pricing as listed by the vendor (2026-10-25)
EntryWhat the vendor lists
Free tierFree: $0, pay-as-you-go usage credits for cloud models
PaidPaid plan $20/month ($16.67/month billed annually) with $60 of monthly usage credits
Paid$100/month with $300
Paid$500/month with $1,000 shared
PaidEnterprise custom

Who Ollama suits, and who should skip it

  • Good for: Developers who want local models behind a simple API.
  • Good for: People who want to try open models privately.
  • Skip if: You need frontier proprietary models only.
  • Skip if: You have no GPU and want fast large-model output.

What the pricing page does not tell you

  • Large models need hardware.
  • Cloud usage is billed separately.
  • Not captured: Speed of a given model on your hardware.
  • Plans are not like-for-like across vendors (credits, seats, usage caps and models differ), so this page does not rank Ollama against others on price.

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  • LM Studio: Desktop app for running open models locally; the homepage now leads with Bionic, an agent for work and code.
  • Jan: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT that runs open models locally or connects to cloud models like GPT and Claude.
  • llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++: the open-source engine many local-model tools build on; MIT-licensed with near-daily build tags.

FAQ

How much does Ollama cost?

Paid plan $20/month ($16.67/month billed annually) with $60 of monthly usage credits; $100/month with $300; $500/month with $1,000 shared; Enterprise custom. Read from the vendor's page on Oct 25, 2026; prices change, so confirm before paying.

Is Ollama free?

Free: $0, pay-as-you-go usage credits for cloud models. Paid plans listed above add more usage or features. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

Where does this pricing come from?

The sources listed below, fetched Oct 25, 2026. Anything we could not read is marked not captured rather than guessed.

Sources

Page history

  • : First published from vendor pages read on 2026-10-25.

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