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Ollama Cloud free tier

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · ollama.com · back to the whole list

What you get

Cloud-hosted open models with a monthly starter allowance advertised in the launch announcement; current pricing instead describes pay-as-you-go usage

Free models

The vendor does not identify which models the free offer includes. See Limits for the published conditions.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Advertised starter usage: Monthly credits allowance: amount not published per account

The August 31 announcement still advertises monthly starter usage for a starter subset, but current pricing and download guidance describe paid cloud usage and omit that allowance. Current Free eligibility, amount and model set remain unresolved. The announcement describes signup-date monthly resets without rollover. Confirm the allowance in your account before using a cloud model; per-token prices do not establish starter eligibility. Local model execution is a separate, free use of the software.

Where it is offered

The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).

What happens to what you send

What you send is not used to train models. In the vendor’s words: “Prompt or response data is never logged or trained on. … When Ollama partners with providers, we require no logging, no training, and zero data retention policies in place.” (source).

Connect

• Base URL: https://ollama.com/v1
• Key: OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY — get one at https://ollama.com/settings/keys
• Callable ids: none listed — Current pricing and the starter-allowance announcement conflict; confirm the allowance and eligible model IDs in your account.
• Note: An Ollama cloud API key is required. Confirm current free entitlement and select an eligible model in your account before making requests.

Check your key from your terminal — with it in OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY, the vendor’s catalog lists the models it can call:

curl -s https://ollama.com/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY"

Evidence

• Probe: the page at https://ollama.com/blog/transparent-pricing, anchored on The free plan now includes a small amount of monthly usage for a set of starter models.; ids checked in https://ollama.com/v1/models
• Source: https://ollama.com/cloud
• Source: https://ollama.com/pricing
• Source: https://ollama.com/blog/transparent-pricing
• Source: https://docs.ollama.com/cloud

History

Each line is a change to what this page publishes, dated the day it reached the list, in UTC.

• 2026-08-14 — Free models changed: dropped gpt-oss, minimax-3, nemotron
• 2026-07-20 — Free models changed: added minimax-3, nemotron; dropped qwen3-coder
• 2026-07-19 — Added: Cloud-hosted open models with free usage tier

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