Ollama Cloud runs the exact model tags you already use locally, such as gpt-oss:120b, qwen3-coder:480b, and kimi-k2.6, on hosted GPUs. Inside Atlas, the terminal-native coding agent, Ollama Cloud is the right pick when you want a 1T-parameter Kimi K2.6 or a 675B Mistral Large 3 that will never fit on your laptop, addressed by the same tag you already type. Cost is the open question: pricing is not publicly listed for any Ollama Cloud model, so you cannot budget an agent run from the registry.
What is Ollama Cloud good for inside Atlas?
Ollama Cloud is best inside Atlas for continuity: the hosted registry uses the exact model names you already run locally, so `qwen3-coder:480b` and `kimi-k2.6:cloud` are one config line away from the same agent you ran against `qwen2.5-coder:7b` on device in 2026.
Atlas lets you switch the active model and provider on the fly with favorites and recents, and Ollama Cloud is the provider that makes that switch cost nothing in mental overhead. The tag you learned on your laptop is the tag the cloud answers to. That matters because Ollama Cloud carries weights that do not exist as practical local downloads for most people: mistral-large-3:675b, cogito-2.1:671b, and deepseek-v3.1:671b, all at 163,840 tokens or more. A 675B model is not something a consumer GPU pulls down. Ollama Cloud lets you point Atlas at it without learning a new naming scheme, a new base URL, or a new SDK. The practical shape of an Atlas session on Ollama Cloud is a big hosted model doing the reasoning while your local Ollama daemon still handles the cheap calls.
How much context does Ollama Cloud give Atlas?
Ollama Cloud offers up to 1,048,576 tokens of context on deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-pro, and nemotron-3-nano:30b, and 976,000 tokens on glm-5.2. The nemotron-3-nano:30b figure is the notable one: a 30B model at a 1,048,576 token context is far past what it fits into on consumer VRAM.
Atlas searches code with hybrid semantic and keyword retrieval fused by reciprocal rank fusion, and it indexes code by AST declarations using tree-sitter rather than blind line windows, so it does not need a million-token window to find the right function. But a large window still helps on long agentic sessions where the conversation, the diffs, and the tool output accumulate. Ollama Cloud giving nemotron-3-nano:30b a 1,048,576 token context is a genuine capability you cannot reproduce on device with the same weights. That is the clearest argument for the hosted tier over the local daemon: not a different model, the same model with room to work.
What does Ollama Cloud cost in Atlas?
Ollama Cloud pricing is not publicly listed. The registry carries no per-token cost for any Ollama Cloud model, so unlike DeepInfra or Groq, you cannot budget an Atlas agent run from the model list before you start it. That is a real planning gap in 2026.
For most Atlas providers, you can multiply an estimated token count by a published per-Mtok rate and know roughly what a long agentic edit session will cost. Ollama Cloud does not give you that lever. If cost predictability is the deciding factor, a provider with published per-token rates is the safer choice. The mitigation inside Atlas is to keep the cheap slot local: pin `"small_model": "ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b"` against your local daemon so title generation, summaries, and subagent overhead never touch the hosted account at all. Atlas fans out work to subagents that can run in the foreground or in parallel background sessions, and those subagent calls are exactly the traffic you want on free local hardware rather than an unpriced hosted tier.
Does Ollama Cloud keep my code private like local Ollama?
No. Ollama Cloud is a hosted service, which forfeits the main reason many developers run Ollama at all: code and prompts leave the machine. Local Ollama keeps everything on device. Ollama Cloud sends your repository context to https://ollama.com/v1 like any other 2026 API provider.
Atlas can build its code index with local Ollama embeddings, keeping code off third-party servers, and that capability is worth keeping even when your chat model is hosted. If you pin an Ollama Cloud model for generation but leave the codebase index on local Ollama embeddings, your search vectors never leave the machine even though your prompts do. Atlas also permission-gates every tool call against allow, ask, and deny rules before it runs, and it computes a unified diff for every file edit and surfaces it for approval before writing, so the hosted model never silently touches disk. Those controls limit the blast radius, but they do not change the fact that Ollama Cloud is a network service and local Ollama is not.
When should I pick a different provider than Ollama Cloud?
Pick a different provider than Ollama Cloud when you need a per-token budget, because Ollama Cloud pricing is not publicly listed, or when data residency rules mean prompts cannot leave the machine at all. In the second case, run local Ollama with `ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b` instead of the hosted tier.
There are two clean disqualifiers for Ollama Cloud in Atlas. The first is finance: a team that has to forecast agent spend cannot do it from an Ollama Cloud model list, since no per-token cost is published. The second is privacy: if the entire reason your team adopted Ollama was that the model runs on device, the hosted tier undoes that. Ollama Cloud is the right pick in the middle case, where you want big open weights, you like the tag continuity, and you accept both a hosted boundary and an unpriced bill. If you want big open weights with published per-Mtok rates instead, look at a provider that lists them.
Setup
- 01Create an Ollama account key and export it as OLLAMA_API_KEY.
- 02No custom provider block is needed: Atlas resolves ollama-cloud from models.dev via @ai-sdk/openai-compatible against https://ollama.com/v1, unlike local Ollama, which does require one.
- 03Run `atlas models ollama-cloud` to list the hosted tags and confirm the key resolved.
- 04Pin `"model": "ollama-cloud/qwen3-coder:480b"` in atlas.json for the coding slot.
- 05Keep `"small_model": "ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b"` pointed at your local daemon so title and summary calls stay cheap and on device.
- 06Point the Atlas codebase index at local Ollama embeddings so search vectors stay off third-party servers even while generation is hosted.
Frequently asked questions
- how to use ollama cloud with atlas
- Export OLLAMA_API_KEY, run `atlas models ollama-cloud` to list the hosted tags, then pin `"model": "ollama-cloud/qwen3-coder:480b"` in atlas.json. Atlas resolves ollama-cloud from models.dev via @ai-sdk/openai-compatible against https://ollama.com/v1, so no custom provider block is required.
- how much does ollama cloud cost per million tokens
- Ollama Cloud pricing is not publicly listed. The registry carries no per-token cost for any Ollama Cloud model, so unlike DeepInfra or Groq you cannot budget an agent run from the model list before starting it.
- what is the context window of ollama cloud models
- Ollama Cloud reaches up to 1,048,576 tokens on deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-pro, and nemotron-3-nano:30b, and 976,000 tokens on glm-5.2. Models like mistral-large-3:675b, cogito-2.1:671b, and deepseek-v3.1:671b sit at 163,840 tokens or more.
- does ollama cloud need a custom provider block in atlas.json
- No. Atlas resolves ollama-cloud from models.dev through @ai-sdk/openai-compatible against https://ollama.com/v1, so it needs no custom provider block. Local Ollama is the one that does need a provider block.
- is ollama cloud private like running ollama locally
- No. Ollama Cloud is a hosted service, so code and prompts leave the machine, which forfeits the main reason many people run Ollama. You can keep the Atlas codebase index on local Ollama embeddings so at least search vectors stay on device.
- can i run qwen3-coder:480b in atlas
- Yes. Ollama Cloud serves `qwen3-coder:480b` under the same tag you would use locally. Pin `"model": "ollama-cloud/qwen3-coder:480b"` in atlas.json after exporting OLLAMA_API_KEY.
- what small model should i pair with ollama cloud in atlas
- Keep `"small_model": "ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b"` pointed at your local Ollama daemon. Title, summary, and subagent calls then run free on your own hardware while the hosted Ollama Cloud model handles the heavy reasoning.
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