# Ollama

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ollama/  
**Website:** https://ollama.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 14

API for running large language models locally.

## Kin Score — 40.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 47.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 25.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (14)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ollama Agentic Access** — 21 operations · 15 acting

## Security (2)

- **Ollama Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Ollama Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ollama Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Models

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ollama/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.