diff --git a/ollama/__init__.py b/ollama/__init__.py
index 92bba280..c0bb46db 100644
--- a/ollama/__init__.py
+++ b/ollama/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from ollama._client import AsyncClient, Client
+from importlib.metadata import version, PackageNotFoundError
 from ollama._types import (
   ChatResponse,
   EmbeddingsResponse,
@@ -57,3 +58,9 @@
 ps = _client.ps
 web_search = _client.web_search
 web_fetch = _client.web_fetch
+
+
+try:
+    __version__ = version("ollama")
+except PackageNotFoundError:
+    __version__ = "unknown"
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