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LM Studio vs GPT4All: catalog facts
LM Studio	GPT4All
Freemium The free plan runs local models and the built-in agent. Paid plans from $20 a month add…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence, including for commercial use.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Search and download models from Hugging Face without leaving the app Serves local models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints, locally and over the network	LocalDocs answers questions from your own files, entirely on your machine Runs on CPU; no API calls and no GPU required
Closed source, unlike most of the local-AI stack it builds on Cloud features require an account and a subscription	The latest release, 3.10.0, dates from February 2025 Nomic’s website now foregrounds a separate commercial platform rather than GPT4All
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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