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LM Studio vs llamafile: catalog facts
LM Studio	llamafile
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 Apache 2.0.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Search and download models from Hugging Face without leaving the app Serves local models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints, locally and over the network	One file holds both the model and the runtime, with nothing to install The same file runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD across several CPU architectures
Closed source, unlike most of the local-AI stack it builds on Cloud features require an account and a subscription	Single files get large because the model is inside them Versions from 0.10.0 dropped some features that earlier releases had
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
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 21, 2026

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