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Ollama vs Local Studio: catalog facts
Ollama	Local Studio
Freemium Running models locally is free. The optional hosted cloud inference starts at $20 a month.	Free Free download; the research does not mention any paid plans.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	macOS
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	Supports vLLM, SGLang, MLX and llama.cpp backends Single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for served models
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	macOS only Aimed at technical users with their own hardware
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: MIT	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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