Ollama
Ollama in the enterprise
As of November 8, 2026. Every figure links to its source; company-reported numbers are labeled as such.
Ollama's enterprise business is thin and mostly unproven. Its reach inside companies comes from a free, open-source app that individual developers install to run open AI models on their own machines; Ollama says it is used at 85% of Fortune 500 companies, but that is a company claim about usage, not paying contracts, and it has named no enterprise customers. What it actually sells is cloud access to larger open models (from Moonshot's Kimi, DeepSeek, Zhipu's GLM, MiniMax, NVIDIA and others) that are too big for a laptop, hosted on NVIDIA-based partner clouds and billed per token since August 2026.
The paid line-up runs from pay-as-you-go through Pro ($20/month) and Max ($100/month) to a Team plan ($500/month, early access, unlimited users) and an Enterprise tier with custom pricing, usage budgets, model access controls and dedicated support. The Team plan only launched in August 2026, and Ollama has disclosed no revenue, customer counts or valuation. Its one growth figure for the cloud is that token volume has more than doubled each month on average (company-reported). It has just started hiring for sales, with Account Executive and go-to-market roles posted on its job board in July 2026, and its headcount was 14 at the time of its $65 million Series B.
What to watch: whether it names paying business customers or discloses revenue; whether it can secure enough GPU capacity (it temporarily paused new sign-ups for its Max plan in July 2026, saying demand was growing faster than it could add capacity); whether corporate security teams accept it after two major 2026 security reports on exposed Ollama servers, including a critical memory-leak flaw; and whether developer goodwill holds as rivals such as LM Studio and llama.cpp compete for the same users.
Key numbers
| Measure | Figure | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly developers (company-reported) | 8.9 million | Jul 2026 | Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users (TechCrunch) |
| Fortune 500 presence (company-reported, usage not paid contracts) | 85% of Fortune 500 companies | Jul 2026 | Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users (TechCrunch) |
| Cloud token volume growth (company-reported) | More than doubled every month on average | Jul 2026 | Ollama: all aboard open models (Ollama) |
| GitHub stars on main repo (developer interest, not usage) | About 185,000 | Nov 2026 | ollama/ollama (GitHub) |
| Team plan price | $500/month for unlimited users, incl. $1,000 of shared usage (early access) | Nov 2026 | Pricing (Ollama) |
| Headcount | 14 employees | Jul 2026 | Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users (TechCrunch) |
What it sells to businesses
| Ollama (free local app) | Free, MIT-licensed software for downloading and running open AI models on a developer's own computer or server, with no data leaving the machine. |
| Ollama Cloud (pay as you go, Pro, Max) | Hosted access to large open models billed per token, with $20 and $100 monthly plans that include usage credits and more simultaneous requests. |
| Team plan | A $500-a-month shared account (early access) with unlimited users, pooled usage credits, central billing and administration, and priority support. |
| Enterprise plan | Custom-priced volume plan adding controls over which models staff can use, spending budgets per user and API key, a private support channel and help with security questionnaires. |
| Coding-agent integrations | Lets popular coding assistants such as Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex and OpenClaw run on open models, local or cloud, by mimicking the OpenAI and Anthropic programming interfaces. |
Partnerships
| Partner | Deal | When | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | Ollama Connector lets AI agents running in Fly.io's sandboxed virtual machines call Ollama's cloud models through a Fly.io gateway that keeps the API key hidden; no commercial terms disclosed. | Oct 2026 | Run AI agents safely with Ollama and Fly.io (Ollama) |
| Reflection | Ollama was a launch-day partner for Reflection's first open model, Beam, offering it free on Ollama's cloud for a limited time. | Oct 2026 | Reflection's Beam is freely available on Ollama for a limited time (Ollama) |
| NVIDIA Cloud Partners | Ollama's cloud models run on hardware from NVIDIA's partner cloud providers, mainly in the US with overflow to Europe, under no-logging and zero-data-retention terms; partners are not named. | Nov 2026 | Pricing (Ollama) |