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Local Studio vs Ollama: catalog facts
Local Studio	Ollama
Free Free download; the research does not mention any paid plans.	Freemium Running models locally is free. The optional hosted cloud inference starts at $20 a month.
macOS	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Supports vLLM, SGLang, MLX and llama.cpp backends Single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for served models	One command to download and run a model, with no Python environment to build first A REST API on localhost, so editors, scripts and agents can use the local model
macOS only Aimed at technical users with their own hardware	Model quality is bounded by your hardware; large models need a lot of VRAM or unified memory The company now also sells cloud inference, so read carefully which mode you are in
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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