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Ollama

Infrastructure

Runs open models locally from one command, with a hosted tier for models too large for a laptop.

Total funding$88M

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Employees—

Founded—

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Ollama Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  MIT-licensed local model runner for macOS, Windows and Linux that downloads open models and serves them from one command, with an OpenAI-compatible API on the machine it runs on.

• Ollama Cloud Model API Sold on its own

  Hosted inference for the same open models, called from the Ollama CLI or an application with an API key and served from the US, Europe and Singapore.

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NGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BOllama Cloud and Nebius Token Factory do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)Ollama and Modular Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReplicatePrivateOllama and Replicate do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Replicate's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBasetenPrivate · $13BOllama Cloud and Baseten Model APIs do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedOllama Cloud and Lambda Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunPodPrivateOllama Cloud and Runpod Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; RunPod's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVMwareAcquiredOllama and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksPrivate · $190BOllama Cloud and Databricks Model Serving do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BOllama and Together Dedicated Container Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateOllama Cloud and MaaS do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModalPrivate · $466M raisedOllama and Modal Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BOllama Cloud and Fireworks Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElasticPublic · $10.2BOllama Cloud and Elastic Inference Service do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFalPrivateOllama Cloud and fal both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Fal's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrusoePrivate · $10BOllama Cloud and Crusoe Managed Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHFHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BOllama and Inference Endpoints both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BOllama Cloud and Cogito do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TOllama Cloud and Meta Model API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredOllama Cloud and W&B Serverless Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHuaweiPrivateOllama and MindIE do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; Huawei's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHeliconeAcquiredOllama Cloud and Helicone AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDTDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BOllama and Dell Enterprise Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateOllama Cloud and Kubeflow do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Kakao Enterprise's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TOllama Cloud and NVIDIA NIM do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVercelPrivate · $9.3BOllama Cloud and Vercel AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private); ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedOllama Cloud and Civitai API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private); ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAMDPublic · $785.1BOllama and AMD Enterprise AI Reference Stack do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCore42PrivateOllama Cloud and Core42 Compass both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Core42's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoherePrivate · $7BOllama and Model Vault do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BOllama and ModelScope do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQualcommPublic · $174.9BOllama and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; similar scale (public); ships developer tool, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLSLM StudioPrivateOllama Cloud and LM Studio do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivateOllama Cloud and ML expert Platform do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; NAVER Cloud's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGGitLabPublic · $8.3BOllama and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; similar scale (public); ships AI agent, agent platform and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BOllama Cloud and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUnslothPrivateOllama and Unsloth both serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; Unsloth's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BOllama and Tencent Cloud HAI do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BOllama Cloud and Vanchin do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TOllama Cloud and Amazon Bedrock both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TOllama Cloud and Foundry Models do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public); ships AI agent, API service and 5 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCCactus ComputePrivateOllama and Cactus both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedOllama and Hermes Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; same layer and the same scale band (early-stage private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareSSambaNovaPrivate · $11BOllama Cloud and SambaCloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYandexPublicOllama Cloud and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Yandex's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCSCerebras SystemsPublic · $44.4BOllama Cloud and Cerebras Inference both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIntelPublic · $463.7BOllama and Intel Neural Compressor both serve buyers who need to run an open-weight model on your own infrastructure and serve a model in production; similar scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BOllama and Elastic Container Platform do comparable work on model hosting; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BOllama and CoreWeave AI Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BOllama Cloud and Mistral AI Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGroqPrivate · $3.5BOllama Cloud and GroqCloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Company disclosure · 9 Jul 2026

Own blog: "Ollama has raised $88M from Peter Fenton at Benchmark, Tomasz Tunguz at Theory Ventures, Alex Kolicich at 8VC..." Stated as cumulative. The post names no round: the "$65M Series B" in the research brief is not what this source says, and is not recorded.

Description

Company disclosure · 17 Sep 2026

Delivery test (§1.1): Ollama is how a customer runs an open model at all — load-bearing inference infrastructure, sold as a hosted tier above the local runner.

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