How to use Ollama Cloud models with Brave?

Browser Support Leo AI
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I want to use Ollama Cloud (not local) models with Brave, but I can’t get it to work.

Here is Ollama’s documentation for their Cloud models: https://docs.ollama.com/cloud

I’ve generated my API key, and if I use it in the terminal it does work

export OLLAMA_API_KEY=**** (I used my actual key)

curl https://ollama.com/api/chat \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OLLAMA_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-oss:120b",
    "messages": [{
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Why is the sky blue?"
    }],
    "stream": false
  }'

When I tried in Brave Settings > LEO > BYOM

  • Model request name: gpt-oss:120b
  • Server endpoint: https://ollama.com/api/chat
  • API Key: **** (I used my actual key)
    I get this error message when chatting:

There was a network issue connecting to Leo, check your connection and try again.

If I change one character in my API key, I get this error:

The API key configured for this model is invalid. Please check your configuration and try again.

So the model is definitely communicating to Ollama’s servers

I also tried the streaming-response server endpoint (see https://docs.ollama.com/api/streaming)

trying with "prompt" in the terminal

note that I can’t get a response when using the "prompt": parameter, only the "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Why is the sky blue?" }], parameters

curl https://ollama.com/api/chat \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OLLAMA_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-oss:120b",
    "prompt": "Why is the sky blue?",
    "stream": false
  }'

respone:

{"model":"gpt-oss:120b","created_at":"2025-12-14T05:24:39.141054444Z","message":{"role":"assistant","content":""},"done":true,"done_reason":"load"}
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I also tried using the following server endpoints which are mentioned under the “Connecting to ollama.com” sections of their Intergrations docs for Codex, Cline, Droid, Goose, etc:

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SOLVED:

the endpoint to use is https://ollama.com/v1/chat/completions (similar to the local endpoint mentioned in the Brave support docs of http://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions)

Thank you @AccessibleTech for the inspiration

to get a listing of all possible "Model request name"s for Cloud models, go to https://ollama.com/api/tags and copy the "model" field