DiskBroom › What it cleans › Where Ollama stores models (and how to remove them)
~/.ollama/models
Every model you ollama pull is stored as layer blobs under ~/.ollama/models. They stay after you stop using them — nothing expires on its own.
One 7–8B model at default quantization is roughly 4–5 GB; small models run ~1 GB and 70B-class models 40 GB+. A few experiments commonly add up to 10–50 GB.
A removed model is gone until you re-download it — models don't regenerate, they re-pull. If you use it again, that's a multi-GB download; if you don't, the space is simply yours back.
Worth a look. Deleting costs a re-download, not lost work — but the download is large, so glance at the list before sweeping.
Prefer not to do this by hand every time? DiskBroom scans this location (and every other one on its published list), shows the size, rates the risk with the same shape you see above, and asks before anything moves — everything goes to the Trash, never past it. Scanning is free forever.
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