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Ollama

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

Developer ToolsFounded January 2023#4 of 12 in Developer Tools

Updated May 29, 2026

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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.

Company research

As of May 18, 2026
  1. Hacker News mentions decreased 48.6% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.

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History

Research history

2 research updates

Developer Tools

Ollama: Hacker News mentions decreased 48.6% over the last 30 days

Latest
Developer Tools

Ollama: Hacker News mentions increased 28.5% over the last 30 days

1 metric

Latest company data

Primary data point

Downloads

15.7M/30d

npm
2.3M
PyPI
13.3M

Tracked packages: npm ollama; PyPI ollama

▲ +11%npm + PyPI: Updated 1d ago

Other data points

Dependent projects

2.5K

npm
671
PyPI
1.8K

Projects depending on tracked packages: npm ollama; PyPI ollama

npm + PyPI: Updated 8h ago

GitHub stars

172.6K

Main repository stars

Updated 8h ago

Hacker News

169/30d

Position #1 in category discussion

Updated 8h ago

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

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