Actually Free → Chat / LLM → Ollama
Actually freeIs Ollama actually free?
Run real language models on your own computer, offline.
- What you get free
- Unlimited. No account, no API key, no per-token cost.
- Account required
- No
- Card required
- No
- Commercial use
- Allowed on the free tier
- Watermark
- None
- Works offline
- Yes
- Licence
- Open source
- Last checked
- 2 Aug 2026
The catch
You drive it from a terminal, and model quality tracks how much RAM you have. Say that up front — a lot of guides don't.
Why it made the list
The only entry here that can never have its free tier revoked, because there is no vendor in the loop once it's installed.
How this was checked
The limits above were read directly from Ollama's own pricing or documentation pages on 2 Aug 2026 — not taken from a roundup article. That distinction matters more than it sounds: 11 tools were rejected from this site specifically because the widely-repeated free-tier numbers did not survive contact with the vendor's own page.
Free tiers change without announcement, and they usually shrink. If you are reading this well after 2 Aug 2026, open the pricing page yourself before committing to anything.