Desktop app for discovering, running, and serving local LLMs with a GUI.
LM Studio is a desktop application (macOS, Windows, Linux) for downloading and running open-source LLMs locally with a friendly GUI, a chat interface, and an OpenAI-compatible local server. It supports GGUF and MLX models and hardware acceleration, and is free for personal use.
Free for personal use; business use is also free following a 2025 licensing change. No paid consumer tier.