Ollama

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As of Nov 8, 2026

Ollama's open-source footprint is small in repository count but large in reach. Its main project, ollama/ollama, the free tool for downloading and running AI models on a user's own computer, has about 186,000 GitHub stars, a measure of developer interest rather than usage, and is updated almost daily. The rest of its public code is client libraries that let developers call Ollama from Python and JavaScript, plus an official VS Code extension.

For buyers and investors, the point is that the free, MIT-licensed tool is the company's distribution channel. It is how Ollama reaches developers inside large companies, while its revenue comes from paid cloud plans that run bigger models on partner hardware. Because the code is public, security fixes are public too, which matters given this year's reports of exposed Ollama servers and a critical vulnerability.

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