Ollama

license

MIT

source

public

core-gated

ungated

MIT-licensed with public source and no feature-gated core. The whole engine ships free - platform installers for macOS, Windows and Linux, an official Docker Hub image, the local REST API on port 11434, and the model library - with no paid edition, license key or enterprise-only build. Ollama sells hosted cloud inference alongside the engine, but that is a separate service rather than a capability withheld from it, so nothing in the core is gated.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-13

  Verbatim MIT License body at repository head, "Copyright (c) Ollama", with the standard permission and warranty-disclaimer clauses and no added restriction

• https://api.github.com/repos/ollama/ollama recorded 2026-08-13

  Repository metadata - full_name ollama/ollama, language Go, license spdx_id MIT, public and not archived, 178,451 stars, 17,389 forks, last push 2026-08-12

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13

  The whole engine is distributed free from the repository and vendor site - install scripts and manual installers for macOS, Windows and Linux, the official ollama/ollama Docker Hub image, the local REST API on port 11434, agent integrations launched from the CLI, and ollama-python and ollama-js listed under Libraries as clients. No paid tier, license key or enterprise-only build is described anywhere in it.

• https://ollama.com/ recorded 2026-08-13

  Vendor site offering a free download plus paid hosted cloud models in the United States, Europe and Singapore; the cloud service is sold alongside the local engine, not as an unlock for it