Cheap Plan, Expensive Reviews: Why I Cancelled Ollama
Two weeks ago I ended a post about rate limits with "Ollama is back." I had re-subscribed monthly on purpose, to answer the question properly this time: does this plan give me the flexibility I did not have the first time around? I have the answer now, and it is no. I cancelled. The short version is that the money ran out early. The longer version is the reason for this post: even while the money lasted, the plan was not the real cost. The real cost was how many review rounds it took to get the work to a state I could merge. The Money Part Ollama Pro is $20 a month and includes $60 of cloud usage. This is my dashboard today: The $60 was gone within the first week of the month. When I saw the reset was still three weeks away, I cancelled. Most of the requests went to kimi-k2.7-code , the model I said in the last post I had not evaluated yet. I evaluated it. For comparison, my Claude weekly limit has covered most of this past week of daily work across two apps, and i...