ollama/docs/api.md

API

Endpoints

• Generate a completion
• Create a model
• List local models
• Copy a model
• Delete a model
• Pull a model

Conventions

Model names

Model names follow a model:tag format. Some examples are orca:3b-q4_1 and llama2:70b. The tag is optional and if not provided will default to latest. The tag is used to identify a specific version.

Durations

All durations are returned in nanoseconds.

Generate a completion

POST /api/generate

Generate a response for a given prompt with a provided model. This is a streaming endpoint, so will be a series of responses. The final response object will include statistics and additional data from the request.

Parameters

• model: (required) the model name
• prompt: the prompt to generate a response for

Advanced parameters:

• options: additional model parameters listed in the documentation for the Modelfile such as temperature
• system: system prompt to (overrides what is defined in the Modelfile)
• template: the full prompt or prompt template (overrides what is defined in the Modelfile)

Request

curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{
  "model": "llama2:7b",
  "prompt": "Why is the sky blue?"
}'

Response

A stream of JSON objects:

{
  "model": "llama2:7b",
  "created_at": "2023-08-04T08:52:19.385406455-07:00",
  "response": "The",
  "done": false
}

The final response in the stream also includes additional data about the generation:

• total_duration: time spent generating the response
• load_duration: time spent in nanoseconds loading the model
• sample_count: number of samples generated
• sample_duration: time spent generating samples
• prompt_eval_count: number of tokens in the prompt
• prompt_eval_duration: time spent in nanoseconds evaluating the prompt
• eval_count: number of tokens the response
• eval_duration: time in nanoseconds spent generating the response

To calculate how fast the response is generated in tokens per second (token/s), divide eval_count / eval_duration.

{
  "model": "llama2:7b",
  "created_at": "2023-08-04T19:22:45.499127Z",
  "done": true,
  "total_duration": 5589157167,
  "load_duration": 3013701500,
  "sample_count": 114,
  "sample_duration": 81442000,
  "prompt_eval_count": 46,
  "prompt_eval_duration": 1160282000,
  "eval_count": 113,
  "eval_duration": 1325948000
}

Create a Model

POST /api/create

Create a model from a Modelfile

Parameters

• name: name of the model to create
• path: path to the Modelfile

Request

curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/create -d '{
  "name": "mario",
  "path": "~/Modelfile"
}'

Response

A stream of JSON objects. When finished, status is success

{
  "status": "parsing modelfile"
}

List Local Models

GET /api/tags

List models that are available locally.

Request

curl http://localhost:11434/api/tags

Response

{
  "models": [
    {
      "name": "llama2:7b",
      "modified_at": "2023-08-02T17:02:23.713454393-07:00",
      "size": 3791730596
    },
    {
      "name": "llama2:13b",
      "modified_at": "2023-08-08T12:08:38.093596297-07:00",
      "size": 7323310500
    }
  ]
}

Copy a Model

POST /api/copy

Copy a model. Creates a model with another name from an existing model.

Request

curl http://localhost:11434/api/copy -d '{
  "source": "llama2:7b",
  "destination": "llama2-backup"
}'

Delete a Model

DELETE /api/delete

Delete a model and its data.

Parameters

• model: model name to delete

Request

curl -X DELETE http://localhost:11434/api/delete -d '{
  "name": "llama2:13b"
}'

Pull a Model

POST /api/pull

Download a model from a the model registry. Cancelled pulls are resumed from where they left off, and multiple calls to will share the same download progress.

Parameters

• name: name of the model to pull

Request

curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/pull -d '{
  "name": "llama2:7b"
}'

Response

{
  "status": "downloading digestname",
  "digest": "digestname",
  "total": 2142590208
}