Policy

Include a model id when all of the following hold:

1. It appears (or is a clear API-style form of a model) on the Ollama Cloud models API.[^ollama-v1-models]
2. The library page for that model reports usage level Low (best free-plan fit).[^ollama-library]
3. It is not High or Extra High (Pro-oriented heavy models).

Default product policy: Low only. Do not add Medium unless product explicitly expands scope.

Id shape

• Store API-style ids as returned by /v1/models (often without a -cloud suffix), lowercase.
• Runtime normalizeOllamaId maps library-style aliases (*:cloud, *-cloud) onto these entries — do not duplicate every alias in this set unless needed for a distinct free-eligible id.
• When checking library pages, also try {id}:cloud and {name}:{tag}-cloud when the API omits the cloud tag.

When unsure about free eligibility, leave the id out (conservative).

Current set

Snapshot mirrored into FreeTierModels.ollamaCloudFree (runtime). Replace this list only via the refresh playbook.

• gpt-oss:20b
• gemma4:31b
• nemotron-3-nano:30b

Notes

• Free-ness applies only to the Ollama Cloud service instance.
• Example alias coverage at runtime: gemma4:31b-cloud matches gemma4:31b after normalization.

[^ollama-v1-models]: Ollama Cloud models API [^ollama-library]: Ollama model library (usage levels)