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MOpen-weight AI models, chat and coding agent you can run on your own infrastructure
Free, from $14.99/mo
Ollama vs Replicate
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
O
Choose Ollama if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on macOS, Windows, Linux
- you're in its core audience: developers, ai engineers
R
Choose Replicate if…
- you work on Web
- you're in its core audience: software developers, ml engineers
Side by side
Feature Ollama Replicate
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starting price$16.67/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentNo—
Data retentionCloud prompts/responses processed transiently, not stored beyond request timeRetained as long as necessary to provide Services; backups kept limited period
GitHub stars185K—
Works fully offline—
Optional cloud models—
Team admin / SSO—
PlatformsmacOS, Windows, Linux, APIWeb, API
CategoryLocal & Open ModelsDeveloper Tools & APIs
CompanyOllamaReplicate
Based in——
Founded——
Part of—Cloudflare
Key features
O Ollama
- Run open models locally with unlimited usage
- Cloud-hosted open models with pay-as-you-go token pricing
- Off-peak discounted rates for some models
- Tool calling support on compatible cloud models
- Concurrent requests up to 10 on higher plans
- API keys with per-key cost budgets (Enterprise)
- Shared team billing and administration
- Usage alert email at 90% of monthly allowance
R Replicate
- Thousands of public models for image, video, audio and text
- Python, JavaScript and HTTP API clients
- Fine-tune models such as SDXL on your own data
- Deploy custom models packaged with open-source Cog
- Autoscaling that scales to zero when idle
- Per-second billing across CPU and Nvidia GPUs
- Logging and monitoring of predictions
Plans and prices
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Ollama
Free$0
Pro$20/mo or $200/yr ($16.67/mo billed annually)
Max$100/mo
Team (early access)$500/mo
EnterpriseCustom
Replicate
Pay-as-you-go (hardware)From $0.000025/sec (CPU Small, $0.09/hr); Nvidia T4 $0.81/hr; H100 $5.49/hr
Pay-as-you-go (per-model)e.g. flux-dev $0.025/image, flux-1.1-pro $0.04/image
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Ollama
- Local model use is free and unlimited
- Prompt and response data is never logged or trained on
- Open source project on GitHub
- Published per-token prices for every cloud model
- Free cloud usage is limited to starter models unless you buy credits
- Unused monthly credits do not roll over
- Free plan allows only 1 concurrent cloud request
- Cloud hosting is primarily in the US
Replicate
- Pay only for the compute time or outputs you use
- Wide range of hardware, from CPU to 8x H100
- Cog packaging tool is open source
- Model pages show cost estimates
- No free plan listed on the pricing page
- Private models are billed for idle and setup time
- Larger multi-GPU capacity requires committed spend contracts
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