Local Ai
Those of you that run Openclaw with Ollama Pro, do you need the local ollama to use cloud?
When using Ollama Pro's cloud models with OpenClaw, a local Ollama installation is not strictly required — OpenClaw is an AI agent execution layer that handles tools, memory, scheduling, and messa...
When using Ollama Pro's cloud models with OpenClaw, a local Ollama installation is not strictly required — OpenClaw is an AI agent execution layer that handles tools, memory, scheduling, and messaging integrations, and does not run an LLM itself; it calls out to a model provider, which can be a cloud API or a local runtime like Ollama. During onboarding, users can choose between "Cloud + Local" (cloud models and local models) or "Local" (local models only). Running ollama launch openclaw --model <model> operates entirely locally with no external API keys, though web search requires configuring a search provider separately.
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Source: local-ai