How to Migrate from OpenAI API to Ollama

💰 Save Pay-per-token ($0.15–$15/1M tokens) 🖥️ Easy Setup ⏱️ ~5 mins 📅 April 15, 2026

💰 Why switch?

OpenAI API costs Pay-per-token ($0.15–$15/1M tokens). Ollama is Free (self-hosted). That's API costs → $0.

Migration Steps

Install Ollama: curl -fsSL https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh (Linux/Mac) or download from ollama.ai (Windows). 2. Pull a model: ollama pull llama3.1. 3. In your app, change the base URL from https://api.openai.com/v1 to http://localhost:11434/v1 and set model to 'llama3.1'. No API key needed.

Migration steps are AI-generated. Verify with official documentation before proceeding. Data sourced April 15, 2026.