Ollama Library
OllamaThe model registry at ollama.com that the Ollama runner pulls from and pushes to. Ollama curates the official library namespace, and any account holder who registers a public key can push models to a namespace of their own. Models are addressed as namespace/model:tag, with each tag naming a specific version, and pull counts and tag lists are shown per model.
Scored as the registry service. The MIT-licensed runner is a separate entry in deployment and contains the client side of push and pull, not the registry server.
Openness
1 high confidence- license
- proprietary(hosted service
- source
- closed(the ollama.com registry service
The registry at ollama.com is a service Ollama Inc. runs, and its server code is not in the MIT runner repository, which only implements the client side of push and pull.
- https://ollama.com/terms recorded 2026-09-27
The terms govern "the services provided by Ollama Inc." including "our website, software, APIs, and related services".
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/HEAD/docs/api.md recorded 2026-09-27
The runner's push endpoint: "Upload a model to a model library. Requires registering for ollama.ai and adding a public key first." The runner is the client of the registry.
Adoption
4 low confidenceOllama shows a running pull count on every library model, and the most-pulled models are in the tens of millions. Those counters are cumulative and cover only the official library page, so they show the registry is heavily used without giving a monthly figure.
- https://ollama.com/library recorded 2026-09-27
Library listing: "llama3.1 ... 119.9M Pulls 93 Tags", "nomic-embed-text ... 87.2M Pulls", fetched 2026-09-27.
- https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1 recorded 2026-09-27
"llama3.1 119.9M Downloads" on the model page, 2026-09-27.
Capability
4 high confidenceAnyone who registers a key can push a model to their own namespace, each tag pins a version, and the runner pulls by name from the registry's API. It hosts one kind of artifact, packaged models, with no datasets or apps and no Git history behind a tag, which keeps it a step below Hugging Face Hub.
- https://ollama.com/huihui_ai recorded 2026-09-27
A third-party namespace on ollama.com listing its own models, e.g. "gemma-4-abliterated".
- https://ollama.com/library/llama3.1/tags recorded 2026-09-27
"Name 93 models" on the tags page, each tag such as "llama3.1:405b" a separate version.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/HEAD/docs/api.md recorded 2026-09-27
"Model names follow a model:tag format, where model can have an optional namespace" and "The tag is used to identify a specific version."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ollama/ollama/HEAD/docs/import.mdx recorded 2026-09-27
"You can share any model you have created by pushing it to ollama.com so that other users can try it out." "ollama push myuser/mymodel"
Verified 2026-09-27