4 categories · Named, not rankedOllama
Ollama is a tool for running large language models such as Qwen and Llama locally, on a user's own machine or on-premises infrastructure · ollama.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Ollama has 9.
Why models recommend it
“PREFER: Self-hosted solutions (Ollama), open-source frameworks (Hugging Face, LangChain)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Start with Ollama or LocalAI if you can run models locally (minimal ongoing costs)”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“via tools like Ollama, Hugging Face, or enterprise platforms from vendors like NVIDIA, Red Hat, or SUSE”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“running open-weight coding models (e.g., Qwen-Coder or DeepSeek-Coder) locally via Ollama”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Ollama is also mentioned alongside LiteLLM as a gateway to avoid in security-sensitive environments.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Ollama, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 2 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Ollama's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- people who build with open models
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 10 of the 13 answers that named Ollama and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighteen of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Ollama came from a third party's page. Three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 58 | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-31Transparent pricing blog
- 2026-08-25Claude desktop blog
- 2026-08-11Nemotron 3 5 lightning blog
- 2026-08-10Muse glimmer blog
- 2026-07-09All aboard open models blog
- 2026-06-29Faster gemma 4 mlx mtp blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ollama.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.