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Ollama’s cloud is currently in preview.

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Cloud Models

Ollama’s cloud models are a new kind of model in Ollama that can run without a powerful GPU. Instead, cloud models are automatically offloaded to Ollama’s cloud service while offering the same capabilities as local models, making it possible to keep using your local tools while running larger models that wouldn’t fit on a personal computer. Ollama currently supports the following cloud models, with more coming soon:
  • deepseek-v3.1:671b-cloud
  • gpt-oss:20b-cloud
  • gpt-oss:120b-cloud
  • kimi-k2:1t-cloud
  • qwen3-coder:480b-cloud
  • glm-4.6:cloud
  • minimax-m2:cloud

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Running Cloud models

Ollama’s cloud models require an account on ollama.com. To sign in or create an account, run: 
ollama signin
  • CLI
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • cURL
To run a cloud model, open the terminal and run:
ollama run gpt-oss:120b-cloud

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Cloud API access

Cloud models can also be accessed directly on ollama.com’s API. In this mode, ollama.com acts as a remote Ollama host.

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Authentication

For direct access to ollama.com’s API, first create an API key. Then, set the OLLAMA_API_KEY environment variable to your API key. 
export OLLAMA_API_KEY=your_api_key

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Listing models

For models available directly via Ollama’s API, models can be listed via: 
curl https://ollama.com/api/tags

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Generating a response

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • cURL
First, install Ollama’s Python library
pip install ollama
Then make a request
import os
from ollama import Client

client = Client(
    host="https://ollama.com",
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + os.environ.get('OLLAMA_API_KEY')}
)

messages = [
  {
    'role': 'user',
    'content': 'Why is the sky blue?',
  },
]

for part in client.chat('gpt-oss:120b', messages=messages, stream=True):
  print(part['message']['content'], end='', flush=True)