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LM Studio vs MLC LLM: catalog facts
LM Studio	MLC LLM
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 Apache 2.0 licence.
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	Broad hardware support across Vulkan, CUDA, ROCm, Metal and WebGPU OpenAI-compatible REST server
Closed source, unlike most of the local-AI stack it builds on Cloud features require an account and a subscription	Aimed at developers rather than casual users Model compilation adds setup steps
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 26, 2026

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