Ollama
last releaseMay 7, 2026
powered byHosts Llama 4, Mistral, Qwen3, DeepSeek, Phi, Gemma, FLUX
goblin vibe check:
worth knowing if you want your ai tools pointing at your own machine instead of someone else's server
de facto standard for running local llms. 'ollama run llama4' and it works. provides an openai-compatible api endpoint — so any tool designed for openai (cursor, continue.dev, aider, cline) can point at a local ollama instance. essential for the privacy-first local ai stack.
cost
free
one-command local model runtime with an openai-compatible apipull and run open models like qwen, llama, deepseek, and gemma locallyollama launch sets up coding tools like Codex and Claude Codemlx preview accelerates apple silicon inference
key features
one-command local model runtime with an openai-compatible apipull and run open models like qwen, llama, deepseek, and gemma locallyollama launch sets up coding tools like Codex and Claude Codemlx preview accelerates apple silicon inference
spec & usage
latest GitHub release is v0.23.2 from May 7, 2026
cloud-hosted variants exist for bigger coding models when local vram is tight
scope:
languageapilocalopen-sourcefastlightweight
launchAugust 1, 2023
last releaseMay 7, 2026