Ollama

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “renting a gpu server, spinning up ollama and putting an open source model makes more sense”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “whatever ollama gave me by default, which probably isn't optimal”

  LUKEWARM · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Ollama + loomcycle (my agentic Go runtime) + loomboard (the agentic UI), all self-hosted”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “been running ollama locally since 2024 testing out running local models to compare them against the big frontier models and for times when I want to keep my conversations local and private”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Havin' a ton of fun dinkin' around with Ollama, Python, and Qwen”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-05

• “my preconceptions were quickly put ashame when I got ollama up and running and pulled my first model. I get a consistent 117-128 t/s with Gemma4:26b-a4b without any tuning (just the default settings), which was much faster than I had expected”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “something I haven't experienced with Ollama, LMStudio or OMLX”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “the Chat function in VSCode is choking on the Ollama responses”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “I tried some through Ollama, but I don't have the hardware to run decent models”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “found a lot of performance improvement over ollama by compiling llama.cpp”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “dropping Ollama for Llama.cpp, which is not particularly scary to configure anymore and just skyrocketed performance”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “Anything not geared specifically towards coding seemed to struggled with actually making tool calls instead of just stating the actions they would take without making them (and trying to get help from them to explain what I needed to configure to change that behavior was useless; qwen refused to believe that it was running in ollama and insisted that it was running from the Alibaba cloud without access to my local system), and the models intended for coding were barely thinking faster than I could type”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “it's totally doable on a 32gb mbp using ollama, but be precise in your requests and guidance.”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “now I'm using an ollama pro subscription and a homebuilt agent with a bash tool and a str_replace tool. It gets on just fine with only those two”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “has ollama become shittified? I'm looking at https://ollama.com/search https://ollama.com/search and the top few models like kimi-k2.7-code say "cloud" and I can't seem to ollama pull them. I thought the whole POINT of ollama was not-cloud?”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “A $20/month subscription to Ollama-cloud gets me good coverage of consults out to frontier models for difficult plans or debugging”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “you can just load up ollama, have it load a local model and point claude or opencode at it”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-12

• “I just used ollama with a shell script to tackle my directory of papers/literature”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-28

• “I can run 100 tok/sec on my phone as well, because I can just access ollama on my home desktop over ssh from termux”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “good results with opencode connected to glm 5.1 on ollama cloud”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-23

• “The end-to-end workflow works out of the box with ollama and any 13B+ model now.”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “I don't recommend ollama or lm-studio. Ollama's in the process of switching from their llama-cpp backend anyway, but their new go framework frequently OOMs and crashes on my hardware.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “I'm using it [0] with my Ollama Cloud subscription since the last two weeks and I love it”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-15

• “The ollama llm isn't as good as claude or openai, when i changed it the results changed drastically”

  NEGATIVE · performance · n8n_community · 2026-04-23

• “IntelliJ's AI Chat pointed at local Ollama models never have issues finding files or reading files and terminal output”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-22