Coding · Head-to-head

Ollama vs Codex Security CLI

Ollama vs Codex Security CLI: pricing, features, and which to pick in 2026.

The verdict

Pick Ollama if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.8 vs 8.2)
→you want our editor's pick for this category
→your primary use case is anyone who wants open-weight models running on their own hardware for privacy, offline work or zero marginal cost, with a cloud fallback for models that will not fit.
→you need: development, agents, productivity

Try Ollama →

Pick Codex Security CLI if…

Try Codex Security CLI →

Spec	Ollama	Codex Security CLI
Category	Coding	Coding
Pricing model	freemium	free
Headline pricing	Free, with Pro at $20/mo and Team at $25/seat/mo for cloud usage	Free, open source (model-backed analysis runs through Codex access)
Free tier	Yes, and it is the main event. Local inference is free forever on your own hardware. The paid tiers exist to buy cloud capacity, and their allowances are published only as multipliers of an unstated base.	The CLI is free and open source. What it charges for is model usage, which routes through your existing Codex plan or API access.
AI Score	8.8/10	8.2/10
Best for	Anyone who wants open-weight models running on their own hardware for privacy, offline work or zero marginal cost, with a cloud fallback for models that will not fit.	—
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	development agents productivity	—
Date added	2026-08-02	2026-07-29

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Coding · freemium

✓Local inference costs nothing per token and keeps prompts and files on the machine
✓Works offline, which Ollama calls out specifically for mission-critical work
✓Acts as the runtime under other agents, including ones named on its own front page, so it slots into existing stacks
✓Cloud fallback covers models too large for a laptop without switching to a different tool or vendor
✓States that prompt and response data is never logged or trained on, with zero data retention on the Team plan

×Cloud allowances are published only as multipliers ("50x more than Free", "5x more than Pro") against a base quantity Ollama never states
×The $100 Max tier is currently listed as paused for new sign-ups, so the top individual plan may not be available
×Local model quality is capped by your RAM and GPU, and open weights still trail frontier hosted models on the hardest tasks
×Comfort with a terminal, model files and quantisation choices is assumed, which puts it out of reach for non-technical users

Coding · free

✓Genuinely open source — you can read the client, audit its calls, fork it, and pin a version rather than trusting a black-box security vendor
✓Tracks findings across runs, so a scan reads as a delta instead of the same wall of unranked issues every build
✓Verifies that fixes actually closed the finding, which is what makes it viable as a CI gate rather than a report-only scanner
✓Model-based analysis can follow logic across files without someone first writing a rule for that specific pattern
✓Free at the tool layer, which puts real scanning in reach of teams shipping AI-generated code with no security budget

×Day-one release in early access — the command surface and flags will churn, so pin the version before it gates anything
×The client is open but the model that ranks a finding as critical or noise is not, and neither is the eval set behind it
×Same-vendor auditing: Codex writes the code and a Codex-branded tool grades it, with no public study of whether same-family generator and auditor share blind spots
×Whether your unpatched inventory stays on the runner or leaves it is worth establishing from the source before wiring this into a pipeline