# Ollama pricing (Oct 2026): plans and free tier

Canonical: https://theagenticweekly.com/what-is/ollama-pricing · Last verified: 2026-10-25 · Published: 2026-10-25 · Author: Agentic Weekly (operated independently from Texas, US) · Evidence: 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 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.

## 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.

Table: Ollama pricing as listed by the vendor (2026-10-25)

| Entry | What the vendor lists |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Free: $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 |
| Paid | $100/month with $300 |
| Paid | $500/month with $1,000 shared |
| Paid | Enterprise 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.

## Compare Ollama and find alternatives

- Hugging Face vs Ollama: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- Ollama vs GPT4All: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- Ollama vs Jan: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- Ollama vs llama.cpp: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- Ollama vs Open WebUI: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- OpenRouter vs Ollama: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- Replicate vs Ollama: side-by-side facts, plans and licenses.
- 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

- [Ollama](https://ollama.com/) (fetched 2026-10-25)
- [Ollama pricing](https://ollama.com/pricing) (fetched 2026-10-25)
- [Ollama repository (GitHub)](https://github.com/ollama/ollama) (fetched 2026-10-25)

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- [Replicate vs Ollama](https://theagenticweekly.com/compare/replicate-vs-ollama)

## Changelog

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

## How to cite

Agentic Weekly, "Ollama pricing (Oct 2026): plans and free tier", last updated 2026-10-25, https://theagenticweekly.com/what-is/ollama-pricing