Ollama

Open source · MITFree locally; optional paid cloud

Ollama

by Ollama

The easy way to download and run open AI models on your own computer.

182k stars on GitHub, Oct 2026

Why it's useful

One install, then one command pulls Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, gpt-oss and the rest and runs them locally, with an API other apps and agents can talk to. No account or API bill for local use.

What it needs

A decent graphics card or Apple silicon Mac for the bigger models

The details

Price
Free locally; optional paid cloud
Licence
Open source (MIT)
Runs on
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Made by
Ollama
Category
ModelsCodingAgents & MCP
Tags
local modelsllmrunner

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