Run Llama 2 and other models on macOS, with Windows and Linux coming soon. Customize and create your own.

local AI model deployment (10)

no third-party API reliance (3)

AI server hosting (2)

local AI model deployment (10)

no third-party API reliance (3)

AI server hosting (2)

Super easy to use tool to launch self hosted llm, even for other AI tools.

Image generation is still not available at this time.

No idea about alternatives, and sincerely I don't feel I need one

Recently I a long flight and having ollama (with llama2) locally really helped me prototype some quick changes to our product without having to rely on spotty plane wifi.

Very easy and powerful to run and customize local LLMs, and to integrate (Langchain or LlamaIndex).

That's Cool and useful! I can have my repository of models and run them from my terminal

Easy to run multiple AI models locally without worrying about privacy issues.

Ollama is what I reach for when I want a model running locally in under a minute, and that matters more than people admit. The one-line pulls and the OpenAI-compatible endpoint mean I can drop it under existing code with almost no changes. Where it still bites me: concurrent requests get serialized in ways that aren't obvious until you load-test, and juggling VRAM across a few models gets fiddly. For local dev and prototyping though, nothing else is this frictionless.

Ollama is how Review offers fully local AI code review. Pick a model, and your code never leaves your machine. Its OpenAI-compatible API made the integration straightforward.

Signal 500, the list of sources FeedsBar is built on, is scored by a local vision model running on a Mac mini at home. Ollama lets it look at every site the way a reader would: ad load, readability, design. No API bill, no data leaving the house.

Ollama

The easiest way to run large language models locally

The easiest way to run large language models locally

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