Ollama Cloud pricing details and 27 free alternatives in AI / ML. Verified November 2026.

Ollama Cloud Pricing 2026

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Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://ollama.com, where it says: “Ollama lets you use open models with your coding agents” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 27 alternatives. Verified November 2026. Last updated 2026-11-02.

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs… Ollama Cloud is high risk — effective between 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-27: Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan and starter usage credits with a $0 Pay as you go plan that charges per token for every cloud model. Source: https://ollama.com/pricing Consider alternatives.

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Tier

Pay-as-you-go

Free Tier Details

Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan. Pay as you go charges per token for every cloud model, has no subscription and 3 concurrent requests. Running models on your own hardware is free. Reflection's Beam (beam:cloud) was free on Ollama's cloud until November 9, 2026, 12:01 AM PST. Since then Ollama charges $0.125 per million input tokens, $0.015 per million cached input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens for it (ollama.com/library/beam, read November 9, 2026). Beam is an open-weight model with a 1M-token context window. Pro costs $20 a month with $60 of usage credits, Max $100 a month with $300. Team, in early access, costs $500 a month for unlimited users and includes $1,000 of usage credits a month, shared across the team. Per million input and output tokens, glm-5.3 costs $1.40 and $4.40 and deepseek-v4-pro $1.32 and $3.96. Ollama Cloud serves kimi-k2.6 at $0.95 input and $4.00 output per million tokens, kimi-k2.7-code at $0.95 and $4.00, kimi-k3.1-pro at $2.00 and $10.00, and kimi-k3 at $3.00 and $15.00. kimi-k2.6 and kimi-k2.7-code are the cheapest Kimi models, and kimi-k3 is the most expensive. Usage is billed per million tokens at each model's rate, for example gpt-oss:120b at $0.15 input and $0.60 output, and some models, such as deepseek-v4.1-flash, cost half off-peak (outside 12:00 to 18:00 UTC on weekdays, and all weekend). To use cloud models without installing Ollama, send requests to https://ollama.com/api/chat with an API key from ollama.com in an "Authorization: Bearer" header, using the same model names, such as gpt-oss:120b; OpenAI and Anthropic clients also work.

We read that on 2026-11-02 from https://ollama.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page writes "ollama", the domain we cite Ollama Cloud from, and states "$0" and "$20" and "$100" and "$60".

Ollama allows one account per person. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28.)
Included usage on Pro, Max and Team resets monthly on the day the subscription started. Unused included usage does not roll over. Pay as you go accounts pay for each request with usage credits. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28.)
Ollama says cloud prompts and responses are never logged or used for training. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-10-05.)
Models run mainly in the United States. Requests may be routed to Europe for capacity. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-10-11.)
Purchased usage credits expire one year after they are added to the account. (From ollama.com/terms, read 2026-10-11.)
Every plan, including Pay as you go, can buy usage credits. Ollama spends the plan's included credits first, then the purchased balance. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-11-05.)
Ollama sends an email when 90% of the plan's included monthly usage is used. The email can be turned off in settings. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-11-05.)
A GET request to https://ollama.com/api/balance returns the account's included and purchased balances. The endpoint allows 10 requests per minute per user. (From docs.ollama.com/api/balance, read 2026-11-05.)
On the Team plan, usage beyond the included credits is paid from a shared team balance. A team can add a set amount to that balance and turn off automatic usage billing. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-11-05.)
Pay as you go and Pro include 3 concurrent requests, and Max and Team 10. Requests beyond the limit are queued and processed when a slot is available. If the queue is full, requests are rejected. (From ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28.)
Since January 16, 2026 (Ollama v0.14.0), Ollama's API accepts Anthropic Messages API requests, which Ollama says lets Claude Code run on its local and cloud models. Ollama's docs: "Ollama connects Claude Code to local and cloud models through its Anthropic-compatible API." `ollama launch claude` sets it up. Without installing Ollama, Claude Code can be pointed at https://ollama.com with an Ollama API key. Hosted web search and advanced tool controls are not fully supported. (From docs.ollama.com/integrations/claude-code, read 2026-10-22.)

Pricing Change History (2 recorded)

removed effective between 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-27 high impact

Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan and starter usage credits with a $0 Pay as you go plan that charges per token for every cloud model. Source ↗

Before: The 2026-10-26 20:15Z archive capture of ollama.com/pricing listed a Free plan: "$0", "Use any cloud model with pay-as-you-go usage credits", "Starter usage credits included", "Includes access to starter models", "Add credits to unlock all models".

After: ollama.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28, lists Pay as you go at $0: "Pay per token for every cloud model", no subscription, 3 concurrent requests. No Free plan or starter credits are listed. Pro is $20 a month with $60 of usage credits; Max $100 with $300.

model change effective between 2026-08-27 and 2026-09-01 high impact

Ollama's Free plan now includes starter usage credits and starter models only; buying usage credits unlocks the other cloud models. Before, Free included cloud models with a usage limit. Source ↗

Before: Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs — free tier for light usage with 1 concurrent model. Access Llama, Mistral, Gemma, and other open models via API

After: The Free plan costs $0 and includes starter usage credits. Buying usage credits unlocks all models. It includes 1 concurrent request.

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Alternatives in AI / ML

How Ollama Cloud compares against every one of the 27 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service	Free Tier	Stability
Ollama Cloud	Pay-as-you-go	not_a_free_offer
Maxim AI	Free Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more.	stable
Pollinations.AI	Free Keyless Classic API: one image model and GPT-OSS 20B text, free, no sign-up, rate-limited per IP. Every other model needs an API key and Pollen, and free Pollen comes only from quests.	caution
Keywords AI	Free Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts.	source unconfirmed
Hetzner Inference API	Free Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1.	stable
OpenRouter	Free AI model router. Free plan: 50 requests a day, no BYOK.	stable
Google Gemini API	Free (Reduced) Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe…	stable
Hugging Face	Free ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models.	caution
Groq	Free Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day.	caution
NVIDIA NIM	Free Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 31B and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, can be called at no cost. Their model IDs are deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, openai/gpt-oss-20b,…	stable
Cohere	Free AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month.	stable
Cloudflare Workers AI	Free Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset.	caution
Lumenfall.ai	Free AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI).	stable
LLM7.io	Free LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice.	caution
Zhipu AI	Free China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video).	source unconfirmed
Portkey	Free Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month.	unrated
SiliconFlow	Free Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR…	unrated
Fireworks AI	Free Credits Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started.	unrated
Baseten	Basic (Free Credits) ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount.	unrated
Cerebras	Trial Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted.	risky
OpenAI	Pay-as-you-go AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest.	unrated
GitHub Models	Retired GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired."	source unconfirmed
xAI	Pay-as-you-go Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens).	unrated
Anthropic API	Pay-as-you-go Claude API with usage-based pricing per million tokens (input/output). Claude Fable 5.2 $8/$40.	unrated
Mistral AI	Pay-as-you-go Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits.	unrated
MiniMax	Pay-as-you-go MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount.	unrated
DeepSeek API	Pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek-flash): $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output at peak.	unrated
Together AI	Pay-as-you-go Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid.	unrated

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ollama Cloud free?

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan. Pay as you go char...

Is Ollama Cloud's free tier good for production?

Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request. There is no free tier here to run in production.

What changed in Ollama Cloud's pricing?

Ollama Cloud has had 2 recorded pricing changes. Most recently: Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan and starter usage credits with a $0 Pay as you go plan that charges per token for every cloud model. Source: https://ollama.com/pricing (effective between 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-27).

What are the best free alternatives to Ollama Cloud?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 27 free alternatives to Ollama Cloud in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 13 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 6 are demoted with the reason named, 8 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

What category is Ollama Cloud in?

Ollama Cloud is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 27 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.