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Private Ollama service survey

What best describes you?

Solo developer / freelancer

Developer at a company

Non-technical professional

Student

Other

How do you currently use AI for work or personal projects?

I pay for ChatGPT / Claude / similar

I self-host local models

I use both

I don't use AI tools regularly yet

What's your biggest frustration with your current AI setup?

A

Privacy / data going to big tech servers

B

Hardware cost or VRAM limitations

C

Maintenance, updates, driver issues

D

Per-token billing stress

E

Quality of available models

F

No good API for my tools

G

I don't have frustrations, my setup works fine

How often do you hesitate to paste something into ChatGPT or Claude because of privacy concerns?

Never, I don't worry about this

Occasionally

Regularly, it affects how I use it

I avoid cloud AI entirely for this reason

If you self-host, roughly how much time do you spend per month on maintenance?

I don't self-host

Less than 1 hour

1-3 hours

More than 3 hours

It varies a lot

Which of these features matters most to you? (rank top 3)

1

Privacy guarantee / no data logging

1

OpenAI-compatible API for my existing tools

1

No hardware required

1

Unlimited usage without per-token billing

1

Strong coding model available

1

Private web search

1

Mobile PWA access

1

Cross-device chat history

On usage limits — this is a real constraint we're thinking through honestly. Which would you prefer?

Truly unlimited but slower during peak times

Fair use limit (e.g. 500 requests/day) with guaranteed speed

Hard monthly token limit (e.g. 5M tokens/month) clearly stated upfront

I don't know, depends on the price

What would you pay per month for this service?

Less than $10 — wouldn't pay more

$10–15

$15–20

$20–30

More than $30 if the quality is genuinely good