Ollama

API for running large language models locally.

Ollama publishes 11 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Blobs API, Chat API, Chat Completions API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Models.

Ollama’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, FAQ, signup flow, pricing, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 46 more developer resources.

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40.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

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14 APIs

Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models Models

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Composite quality — 40.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.0 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 4.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 14

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Ollama OpenAI Compatibility API

Ollama provides compatibility with parts of the OpenAI API, allowing existing applications built for OpenAI to connect to locally-running models through Ollama. Supported endpoi...

Ollama Anthropic Compatibility API

Ollama provides compatibility with the Anthropic Messages API, enabling tools like Claude Code to work with locally-running open-source models. Supports messages, streaming, sys...

Ollama Cloud API

Ollama Cloud provides cloud-hosted inference for large language models, giving access to larger models and faster responses without requiring a powerful local GPU. Cloud models ...

Ollama Blobs API

Manage binary large objects used by models.

Ollama Chat API

Generate chat completions with multi-turn conversation support.

Ollama Chat Completions API

Generate chat completions using the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint with multi-turn conversation support.

Ollama Completions API

Generate text completions using the OpenAI-compatible completions endpoint.

Ollama Embeddings API

Generate vector embeddings from text input.

Ollama Generate API

Generate text completions from a prompt using a specified model.

Ollama Images API

Generate images from text descriptions using the OpenAI-compatible images endpoint. Experimental feature.

Ollama Models API

List, show, create, copy, pull, push, and delete models.

Ollama Responses API

Generate structured responses with optional reasoning using the OpenAI-compatible Responses API.

Ollama Running Models API

View models currently loaded in memory and their resource usage.

Ollama Version API

Retrieve the Ollama server version.

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Open Collections 14

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Chat Completions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Completions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Embeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Generate API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama OpenAI Compatibility API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Responses API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Running Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ollama Blobs Version API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ollama Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ollama Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ollama Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ollama Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Ollama Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Ollama Agentic Access

21 operations · 15 acting

21 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Signup

GettingStarted

Documentation 17

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

Build 8

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

JavaScriptSDK

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Go SDK

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Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

FAQ

Discord

StackOverflow

Issue Tracker

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 8

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Models

Models

Reddit

X

Docker

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Events

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: ollama
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ollama/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: ollama:ollama-openai-compatibility-api
  name: Ollama OpenAI Compatibility API
  tags:
  - Chat
  - Compatibility
  - Large Language Models
  - OpenAI
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/openai-compatibility
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/v1
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/openai-compatibility
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://ollama.com/blog/openai-compatibility
    type: Blog
  - url: https://ollama.com/blog/rss.xml
    type: BlogRSS
    description: Discovered RSS/Atom feed for https://ollama.com/blog
  description: Ollama provides compatibility with parts of the OpenAI API, allowing existing applications built for OpenAI
    to connect to locally-running models through Ollama. Supported endpoints include chat completions, completions, embeddings,
    models, and the Responses API.
- aid: ollama:ollama-anthropic-compatibility-api
  name: Ollama Anthropic Compatibility API
  tags:
  - Anthropic
  - Chat
  - Compatibility
  - Large Language Models
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/anthropic-compatibility
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/anthropic-compatibility
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://ollama.com/blog/claude
    type: Blog
  description: Ollama provides compatibility with the Anthropic Messages API, enabling tools like Claude Code to work with
    locally-running open-source models. Supports messages, streaming, system prompts, tool calling, extended thinking, and
    vision input.
- aid: ollama:ollama-cloud-api
  name: Ollama Cloud API
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Inference
  - Large Language Models
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/cloud
  baseURL: https://ollama.com/api
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.ollama.com/cloud
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://ollama.com/cloud
    type: GettingStarted
  - url: https://ollama.com/pricing
    type: Pricing
  - url: https://ollama.com/settings/keys
    type: Authentication
  - url: https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud
    type: Models
  description: Ollama Cloud provides cloud-hosted inference for large language models, giving access to larger models and
    faster responses without requiring a powerful local GPU. Cloud models are accessed through the same API interface as local
    models, with requests encrypted in transit and no storage of prompts or outputs.
- aid: ollama:ollama-blobs-api
  name: Ollama Blobs API
  description: Manage binary large objects used by models.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Blobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-blobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-chat-api
  name: Ollama Chat API
  description: Generate chat completions with multi-turn conversation support.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-chat-completions-api
  name: Ollama Chat Completions API
  description: Generate chat completions using the OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint with multi-turn conversation support.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-completions-api
  name: Ollama Completions API
  description: Generate text completions using the OpenAI-compatible completions endpoint.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-completions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-embeddings-api
  name: Ollama Embeddings API
  description: Generate vector embeddings from text input.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-generate-api
  name: Ollama Generate API
  description: Generate text completions from a prompt using a specified model.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Generate
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-generate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-images-api
  name: Ollama Images API
  description: Generate images from text descriptions using the OpenAI-compatible images endpoint. Experimental feature.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-models-api
  name: Ollama Models API
  description: List, show, create, copy, pull, push, and delete models.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-responses-api
  name: Ollama Responses API
  description: Generate structured responses with optional reasoning using the OpenAI-compatible Responses API.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Responses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-responses-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/generate
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/chat
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/embed
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/tags
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/ps
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/create
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/pull
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/push
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/copy
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/delete
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/show
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/errors
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/usage
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/blobs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/api/version
- aid: ollama:ollama-running-models-api
  name: Ollama Running Models API
  description: View models currently loaded in memory and their resource usage.
  humanURL: https://docs.ollama.com/api/introduction
  baseURL: http://localhost:11434/api
  tags:
  - Running Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ollama-running-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ollama.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
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  - type: Authentication
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description: API for running large language models locally.
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