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LM Studio vs QVAC: catalog facts
LM Studio	QVAC
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	Linux
Search and download models from Hugging Face without leaving the app Serves local models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints, locally and over the network	Runs models entirely on the local device Covers text, speech, images, OCR and translation
Closed source, unlike most of the local-AI stack it builds on Cloud features require an account and a subscription	Large parts of the project are aimed at developers rather than end users Model performance depends on local hardware
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 October 1, 2026

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