Ollama

Get up and running with large language models.

macOS

Windows

Linux

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

Manual install instructions

Docker

The official Ollama Docker image ollama/ollama is available on Docker Hub.

Libraries

Community

Quickstart

To run and chat with Gemma 3:

ollama run gemma3

Model library

Ollama supports a list of models available on ollama.com/library

Here are some example models that can be downloaded:

Model	Parameters	Size	Download
Gemma 3	1B	815MB	`ollama run gemma3:1b`
Gemma 3	4B	3.3GB	`ollama run gemma3`
Gemma 3	12B	8.1GB	`ollama run gemma3:12b`
Gemma 3	27B	17GB	`ollama run gemma3:27b`
QwQ	32B	20GB	`ollama run qwq`
DeepSeek-R1	7B	4.7GB	`ollama run deepseek-r1`
DeepSeek-R1	671B	404GB	`ollama run deepseek-r1:671b`
Llama 4	109B	67GB	`ollama run llama4:scout`
Llama 4	400B	245GB	`ollama run llama4:maverick`
Llama 3.3	70B	43GB	`ollama run llama3.3`
Llama 3.2	3B	2.0GB	`ollama run llama3.2`
Llama 3.2	1B	1.3GB	`ollama run llama3.2:1b`
Llama 3.2 Vision	11B	7.9GB	`ollama run llama3.2-vision`
Llama 3.2 Vision	90B	55GB	`ollama run llama3.2-vision:90b`
Llama 3.1	8B	4.7GB	`ollama run llama3.1`
Llama 3.1	405B	231GB	`ollama run llama3.1:405b`
Phi 4	14B	9.1GB	`ollama run phi4`
Phi 4 Mini	3.8B	2.5GB	`ollama run phi4-mini`
Mistral	7B	4.1GB	`ollama run mistral`
Moondream 2	1.4B	829MB	`ollama run moondream`
Neural Chat	7B	4.1GB	`ollama run neural-chat`
Starling	7B	4.1GB	`ollama run starling-lm`
Code Llama	7B	3.8GB	`ollama run codellama`
Llama 2 Uncensored	7B	3.8GB	`ollama run llama2-uncensored`
LLaVA	7B	4.5GB	`ollama run llava`
Granite-3.3	8B	4.9GB	`ollama run granite3.3`

[!NOTE]
You should have at least 8 GB of RAM available to run the 7B models, 16 GB to run the 13B models, and 32 GB to run the 33B models.

Customize a model

Import from GGUF

Ollama supports importing GGUF models in the Modelfile:

Create a file named Modelfile, with a FROM instruction with the local filepath to the model you want to import.
```
FROM ./vicuna-33b.Q4_0.gguf
```
Create the model in Ollama
```
ollama create example -f Modelfile
```
Run the model
```
ollama run example
```

Import from Safetensors

See the guide on importing models for more information.

Customize a prompt

Models from the Ollama library can be customized with a prompt. For example, to customize the llama3.2 model:

ollama pull llama3.2

Create a Modelfile:

FROM llama3.2

# set the temperature to 1 [higher is more creative, lower is more coherent]
PARAMETER temperature 1

# set the system message
SYSTEM """
You are Mario from Super Mario Bros. Answer as Mario, the assistant, only.
"""

Next, create and run the model:

ollama create mario -f ./Modelfile
ollama run mario
>>> hi
Hello! It's your friend Mario.

For more information on working with a Modelfile, see the Modelfile documentation.

CLI Reference

Create a model

ollama create is used to create a model from a Modelfile.

ollama create mymodel -f ./Modelfile

Pull a model

ollama pull llama3.2

This command can also

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