Ollama Cloud free tier includes Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs — The Free plan costs $0 and includes starter… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 26 alternatives in AI / ML.
Why caution: effective between 2026-08-27 and 2026-09-01 — 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 ↗ Full history ↓
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective between 2026-08-27 and 2026-09-01, so it lapses on 2027-03-01 unless we record something new first.
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.
Ollama Cloud's free tier offers Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs — The Free plan costs $0 and includes starter usage credits… We rate it caution — one recorded pricing model change, effective between 2026-08-27 and 2026-09-01. Best for ai / ml workloads — 26 alternatives available.
Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs — The Free plan costs $0 and includes starter usage credits. Buying usage credits unlocks all models. It includes 1 concurrent request. 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, deepseek-v4-pro $1.32 and $3.96, and kimi-k3 $3.00 and $15.00. 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 2026-10-06 from https://ollama.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page writes "ollama", the domain we cite Ollama Cloud from, and states "$0". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
Free $0 Use any cloud model with pay-as-you-go usage credits. Includes: Run models locally Starter usage credits included Includes access to starter models Add credits to unlock all models
How Ollama Cloud compares against every one of the 26 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 | Free | caution |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | stable |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Hugging Face | Free | caution |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free | stable |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
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