Ollama API endpoints stream by default and return NDJSON rather than server-sent events

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:22.638Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:22.638Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Both /api/generate and /api/chat default to stream set to true. The response is newline-delimited JSON: one complete JSON object per line, with no data prefix and no event names. Client code written against an OpenAI-style SSE parser finds no event lines and produces nothing.

Set stream to false in the request body to get a single object back instead, which is usually what a batch job or a test wants.

Each streamed line carries a done boolean. Only the final line has done set to true, and that final line is where the timing and token fields live, including total_duration, prompt_eval_count and eval_count. Code that stops reading once it has assembled the text loses the token counts entirely. Ollama also exposes an OpenAI-compatible surface at /v1/chat/completions that does use SSE with the DONE sentinel, so which framing you get depends on which path you call.

Source: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md

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