Starting November 9, 2026, Free plan accounts will automatically switch to pay as you go. You add credits and pay only for what you use, with no subscription and no service fees. Nothing changes on other plans, and running models locally on your own computer will always be free.
These cloud models will need credits after November 9:
gemma4:31b
gpt-oss:120b
gpt-oss:20b
nemotron-3-super
nemotron-3-ultra
nemotron-3-nano:30b
Prefer to keep it free? Most of these smaller models run well on your own machine. For example: ollama pull gpt-oss:20b
Why we’re doing this: Running cloud models costs real money and this change lets Ollama add capacity for the largest open models that are too large to run on most computers. We’ll keep partnering with model makers on free trials of new models, like this past week’s MiniMax M3.1 Flash and Reflection’s Beam.
See pricing for each model.
These cloud models will need credits after November 9:
gemma4:31b
gpt-oss:120b
gpt-oss:20b
nemotron-3-super
nemotron-3-ultra
nemotron-3-nano:30b
Prefer to keep it free? Most of these smaller models run well on your own machine. For example: ollama pull gpt-oss:20b
Why we’re doing this: Running cloud models costs real money and this change lets Ollama add capacity for the largest open models that are too large to run on most computers. We’ll keep partnering with model makers on free trials of new models, like this past week’s MiniMax M3.1 Flash and Reflection’s Beam.
See pricing for each model.
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