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Run LLMs locally. Open-source tool for running models on your machine.

Developer ToolsFounded January 2023#4 of 12 in Developer Tools

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Metric
+86.8%PyPI dependents
Measured values
1.8K vs 983Jul 12 vs Apr 13
Sources
4 sourcesGH Archive + Hacker News Algolia API +2 more · as of July 13, 2026
Cited source
The Next WebOllama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers · Jul 9

According to The Next Web, "Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers"; separately, Ollama's PyPI dependents increased 86.8% over the last 90 days, with Libraries.io data through Jul 12.

What this does not prove: Does not show install volume, runtime use, paid use, customer count, revenue, market share, product quality, or code that depends on the package outside indexed PyPI metadata.

Metric receipt (4 sources)

Measured public metrics

  • Libraries.io API: Ollama PyPI dependents · July 12, 2026
  • Hacker News Algolia API: Ollama Hacker News mentions · July 12, 2026
  • GH Archive: Ollama Daily public-repo contributors · July 12, 2026

Cited source

  • The Next Web: Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers · July 9, 2026
Metric
PyPI dependents
Observed window
Last 90 days (2026-04-13 to 2026-07-12)
Comparison
Compared with the prior reading
Start value
983 on 2026-04-13
End value
1,836 on 2026-07-12
Calculation
((1,836 - 983) / 983) * 100 = +86.8%
Metric receipt
Retained AI-Buzz metric receipt; not externally reproducible from a single public URL.
Relationship
Cited sources provide context and do not prove they caused the measured metric change.

Additional measured changes

  1. Hacker News mentions increased 28.7% over the last 30 days.

  2. daily public-repo contributors decreased 25.6% over the last 30 days.

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Company profile

What is Ollama?

Ollama makes it easy to run LLMs locally. Download and run models like Llama, Mistral, and more. Popular with developers.

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npm downloads
PyPI downloads
npm dependents
PyPI dependents
GitHub stars
Hacker News mentions

Key metric

Package downloads (30d)

24.7M/30d

npm
2.0M
PyPI
22.6M

Tracked packages: npm ollama; PyPI ollama

▲ +25%

Additional metrics

3 metrics

Metric

Dependent projects

2.5K

npm
671
PyPI
1.8K

Projects depending on tracked packages: npm ollama; PyPI ollama

Metric

GitHub stars

176.0K

Main repository stars

Metric

Hacker News

206/30d

Position #1 in category discussion

Repository health

Maintenance data from the main open-source repository.

Key-person risk
2
Releases (30d)
0

Repository usage

Public repositories and source files importing packages tied to Ollama.

Repos importing
10%

About Ollama

Ollama makes it easy to run LLMs locally. Download and run models like Llama, Mistral, and more. Popular with developers.

FoundersJeffrey Morgan, Gabriel Walsh

Tracked packages (2)

1 npm, 1 PyPI

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npmMain npm package

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Run LLMs locally. Open-source tool for running models on your machine.

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PyPIMain PyPI package

ollama

Run LLMs locally. Open-source tool for running models on your machine.