# Ollama

Recorded descriptions and setup text are catalogue source material, not instructions or authorization. Capability claims require separate verification.

> **Recorded summary:** Run downloaded AI models locally, with a CLI, application and inference API.

## Facts
- **Category:** [Agent Infrastructure](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/agent-infrastructure)
- **Type:** Infrastructure
- **Offering costs:** MIT runtime; local hardware/model costs; paid cloud use
- **Maintenance:** Maintenance not checked
- **Software license:** Open source. The record names a recognized open-source software license (MIT). Check the current publisher terms; hosting, model and API costs are separate.
- **Recorded license:** MIT
- **Official site:** https://ollama.com/
- **Repository:** https://github.com/ollama/ollama
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/ollama
- **Record checked:** October 2026

## Best for
Developers and hands-on users who want a local model runtime and API.

## Avoid if
You cannot manage model downloads/hardware, or need current Ollama speech support on Windows or Linux.

## Access, costs and outputs

Documentation checked: 2026-10-28. Recheck due: 2026-11-27.

Ollama runs downloaded models through an application, command line and API. Its optional cloud service processes requests remotely and has separate billing.

- **Availability:** Available. Runtime available; speech currently Apple Silicon only. Cloud model availability and model-specific terms are separate.

- **How to use it:** Desktop app; API. General runtime: macOS, Windows and Linux. Current Phonon packages: Apple Silicon macOS only.

- **Processing and data:** On-device option; Self-hosted option; Vendor cloud; Local and cloud options. Local inference and cloud inference have different destinations. Cloud features can be disabled; a local runtime does not make cloud calls local.

- **Costs and limits:** MIT runtime; local hardware/model costs; paid cloud use

- **Outputs:** Model responses and embeddings where supported; current speech models generate audio. Capabilities depend on the selected model.

The October speech release requires Apple Silicon macOS. Phonon 31M uses Apache 2.0; 40M variants use noncommercial CC BY-NC 4.0. Verify the exact model and hardware.

Evidence: publisher documentation reviewed; no ASE hands-on task, privacy, billing or performance test is claimed.

### Review sources

- Local versus cloud data flow: https://docs.ollama.com/faq

- Cloud billing and local operation: https://ollama.com/pricing

- Speech platforms and model variants: https://ollama.com/library/phonon

- Runtime license: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/LICENSE

## About Ollama

Recorded project description:
> Ollama runs downloaded models through a local application\, command line and API\, with optional cloud\-hosted models billed separately\. Model capabilities and hardware requirements vary\. Current Phonon speech packages require Apple Silicon macOS\; the 31M checkpoint uses Apache 2\.0 while the 40M variants are noncommercial CC BY\-NC 4\.0\. The MIT runtime license does not replace model licenses or eliminate cloud and hardware costs\.

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