---
title: Cortex Ps
description: Cortex ps command.
keywords:
  [
    Jan,
    Customizable Intelligence, LLM,
    local AI,
    privacy focus,
    free and open source,
    private and offline,
    conversational AI,
    no-subscription fee,
    large language models,
    Cortex,
    Jan,
    LLMs
  ]
---

import { Callout, Steps } from 'nextra/components'
import { Cards, Card } from 'nextra/components'

<Callout type="warning">
🚧 Cortex is under construction.
</Callout>

# `cortex ps`

This command shows the running model and its status.

<Callout type="info">
This command is compatible with all OpenAI and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
</Callout>

## Usage

```bash
cortex ps
```
For example, it returns the following table:
```bash
┌─────────┬──────────────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬─────┬──────┐
│ (index) │ modelId              │ engine            │ status    │ duration │ ram │ vram │
├─────────┼──────────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────┼──────────┼─────┼──────┤
│ 0       │ 'janhq/tinyllama/1b' │ 'cortex.llamacpp' │ 'running' │ '7s'     │ '-' │ '-'  │
└─────────┴──────────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────┴──────────┴─────┴──────┘
```