Ollama
Run LLMs locally via simple CLI/API
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Dead-simple local LLM serving. Pull and run models like Docker images. Compatible with the OpenAI API format.
Choose Ollama when…
- •You want to run LLMs locally on your machine
- •Privacy or offline use cases require local models
- •You're testing open-source models without API costs
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LLM providers and inference servers — where the actual model computation happens
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Continue's config accepts Ollama's local API as a model provider — any model running in Ollama appears as a completion and chat option in Continue.
→ Full AI pair programming with zero API costs or data egress — local models power the editor experience.
LlamaIndex connects to Ollama's local API for both completions and embeddings — the same pipeline works fully offline.
→ Fully local RAG: documents indexed and retrieved locally, generation running on local models via Ollama with no API costs.
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