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Ollama Pro is 20, but the new '60 credits' are more like $7-8 elsewhere
Everyone is talking about how the new credit system gives significantly less usage than the old Ollama Pro limits, but there's another part of the pricing that seems a bit crazy to me. For example, I
Everyone is talking about how the new credit system gives significantly less usage than the old Ollama Pro limits, but there's another part of the pricing that seems a bit crazy to me. For example, I mostly use DeepSeek V4 Flash. Ollama API pricing: Input: 0.44 / 1M Output: 1.32 / 1M Ollama Pro effective pricing with the 60 credits: Input: ~0.147 / 1M Output: ~0.44 / 1M Now compare that to some good, cheap providers on OpenRouter: OpenInference: Input: 0.05 / 1M Output: 0.16 / 1M DeepInfra: Input: 0.08 / 1M Output: 0.18 / 1M So even after applying the full 3x value of the Pro credits, Ollama is still around 2.7-3x more expensive than OpenInference for uncached input/output. And before that credit multiplier, Ollama's listed prices are around 8-9x higher. Caching pricing is much closer between them, but I also make a lot of API calls where caching is only a small part of my usage. When I first saw "20 Pro -> 60 credits", I thought the new system sounded bad compared to the old limits, but maybe not that bad. But if those 60 of Ollama credits can buy roughly the same uncached inference as $7-8 on OpenRouter, I'm struggling to see the value here. Especially when OpenRouter also has providers with suitable privacy/data retention policies. Or am I missing something? submitted by /u/citronszals [link] [comments]
Source: r/ollama | 2026-09-03