Ollama is open source and free to use.

What are alternatives to Ollama?

Check our AI tools directory for alternatives to Ollama.

What platforms does Ollama support?

Ollama is available on macOS, Windows, Linux.

Run open LLMs locally with one command.

Open Source Open Source 4.6macOSWindowsLinux

Ollama lets you download and run open-weight language models on your own machine.

It exposes a simple local API so apps can talk to models without the cloud.

Step 1 — Download the installer from ollama.com for your OS.

Step 2 — Run ollama run llama3 to pull and start a model.