LangChain Ollama Client Throws 404 When Accessing phi3:mini Model

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I have my ollama service running in a container, and querying it via the terminal works fine. For example, running:

BASH
curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/v1/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "model": "phi3:mini",
  "prompt": "Test query"
}'

returns a valid response, and I’ve verified that the model exists in my Ollama service. However, when I try to send the same request from my Python app using:

PYTHON
from langchain_community.llms.ollama import Ollama
model = Ollama(name=model_version, base_url=LLAMA_BASE_URL)
for chunk in self.model.stream(input_text):
    accumulated_text += chunk

with
model_version = "phi3:mini" and LLAMA_BASE_URL = "http://ollama:11434", I get the following error:

TEXT
langchain_community.llms.ollama.OllamaEndpointNotFoundError: 
Ollama call failed with status code 404. 
Maybe your model is not found and you should pull the model with `ollama pull llama2`.

If I install the llama2 model instead, everything works as expected. Why does the Python Ollama client from langchain_community only work with certain models?

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 1 month ago

The error isn’t because the client is locked to “llama2” per se but rather because the Python Ollama client expects the model endpoint to behave in a certain way. When you use a model like "phi3:mini", the request made to the /v1/completions endpoint returns a 404 because that model isn’t (yet) mapped for compatibility with the completions API that the client uses.

In other words, the langchain_community Ollama integration isn’t designed to work with any arbitrary model name you might pull into your Ollama service—it expects a model (or more precisely, an endpoint backed by a model) that follows the conventions used in the documentation (for example, the "llama2" models).

The suggested error message ("Maybe your model is not found and you should pull the model with ollama pull llama2") is a hint that the client is expecting a completions endpoint provided by a model that adheres to the expected Ollama API patterns. If you try with a model that supports this API (like llama2), the request completes without error.

If you need to work with another model like "phi3:mini", you’ll have to verify that the model is set up to serve requests on the expected completions endpoint or adjust your configuration accordingly if that’s supported.

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Answer by PlutonianMariner773 • 1 month ago

Ok I tracked down the issue after I noticed a warning that was lost in all the logs of my app during start-up. I noticed this warning:

PYTHON
LangChainDeprecationWarning: 
The class Ollama was deprecated in LangChain 0.3.1 and will be removed in 1.0.0. 
An updated version of the class exists in the :class:~langchain-ollama package and should be used instead. 
To use it run pip install -U :class:~langchain-ollama and import as from :class:~langchain_ollama import OllamaLLM`.

What I assume happened is that in the past i had older version of ollama container and also I was using older models like llama2. But probably the latest ollama server and the phi LLM model were not compatible with is as the llama2 was.

What I did essentially is to remove the from langchain_community.llms.ollama import Ollama and now use:

PYTHON
from langchain_ollama import OllamaLLM
model = OllamaLLM(model=model_version, base_url=LLAMA_BASE_URL)
for chunk in self.model.stream(input_text):
            accumulated_text += chunk

also note that the new OllamaLLM needs model and base_url (not name and base_url)

This now works with a few models I tried.

To avoid any future version problems I have now also fixed my ollama image tag in my docker-compose.yml like:

YAML
ollama:
    image: ollama/ollama:0.5.7 
    container_name: ollama
    volumes:
      - ollama:/root/.ollama  
      - ./ollama_entrypoint.sh:/ollama_entrypoint.sh 
    ports:
      - "11434:11434"
    environment:
      - LLM_MODEL_VERSION=${LLM_MODEL_VERSION} 
    entrypoint: ["/bin/bash", "/ollama_entrypoint.sh"] 
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -f http://localhost:11434 || exit 1"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5

instead of pulling :latest each time.

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