Ollama

Alternatives to Ollama

Ranked by category and the features they share with Ollama.

1. 
   Hugging Face Hugging Face

   The hub for open models and datasets, with Spaces for demos and inference endpoints.

   Free plan + paid Open source API

   inferenceopen weights Ollama vs Hugging Face
2. 
   Groq Groq

   Very fast inference for open models on Groq’s own LPU chips.

   Pay per use API

   inferenceopen weights Ollama vs Groq
3. 
   Together AI Together AI

   A cloud for running and fine-tuning open models, plus GPU clusters.

   Pay per use API

   inferenceopen weights Ollama vs Together AI
4. 
   Replicate Replicate (Cloudflare)

   Run thousands of open image, video, audio and language models with one API call.

   Pay per use API

   inferenceopen weights Ollama vs Replicate
5. 
   Cohere Cohere

   Models for enterprise search and RAG: Command, Embed and Rerank, deployable privately.

   Pay per use API

   privacy Ollama vs Cohere
6. 
   Mistral AI Mistral AI

   European models, open-weight and commercial, with an API and on-premises deployment.

   Pay per use Open source API

   open weights Ollama vs Mistral AI
7. 
   OpenRouter OpenRouter

   One API and bill for hundreds of models from every major provider, with fallbacks.

   Pay per use API

   inference Ollama vs OpenRouter
8. 
   OpenAI API OpenAI

   GPT models for text, vision, images, audio and realtime voice, plus the Agents SDK.

   Pay per use API

   Ollama vs OpenAI API
9. 
   Claude API Anthropic

   Claude models for developers, with tool use, prompt caching, batches and skills; also on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

   Pay per use API

   Ollama vs Claude API
10. 
    Gemini API Google

    Gemini models with long context and native video and audio input, through AI Studio and Vertex AI.

    Pay per use API

    Ollama vs Gemini API