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LM Studio
AIInspect and run local LLMs in a visual sandbox environment.
FREEDOM SCORE2.5Partial
✓Is it free?
+1.5×Open source?
+1.5×Self-hostable?
+1.0✓Data export?
+0.5✓Free pricing tier?
+0.5RELEVANCE SCORE4.0Active
✓Actively maintained?
+1.5✓Large community?
+1.5✓Has public API?
+1.0×Commit < 3 months?
+0.5×Stars > 20k?
+0.5About LM Studio
Beautiful desktop environment to search, run, and host local models as standard OpenAI compatible APIs.
WHAT IT DOES WELL
- +Very pretty models registry interface graphs
- +One-click local server spinup for api wrappers
HONEST PROBLEMS
- ✗Source code is proprietary closed, not fully open source
PROJECT METRICS
RepositoryProprietary / Closed Source
LicenseProprietary
Last CommitN/A
Last VerifiedVerified May 2026