Deleting a Model from Ollama locally: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this post, I'll walk you through the process of removing a model from Ollama on your local machine. Ollama is an open-source platform that allows you to run large language models (LLMs) like Llama, Mistral, and DeepSeek locally.

To completely remove a model, we'll use a specific command that ensures it's deleted from your system. Let’s get started! 🚀

To see all available commands in Ollama, we can use the -h command.

      ollama -h

Next, let's display the locally installed models available in Ollama on our machine.

      ollama list

Finally, let’s delete the model we want to remove locally from Ollama.

      ollama rm  deepseek-r1:14b

Please remember to replace 'deepseek-r1:14b' with the name of the model you want to delete.

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