---
title: "LM Studio pricing, platforms and integrations"
description: "Desktop app for downloading and running local LLMs offline, with the Bionic agent for coding, documents and computer control using local or cloud open models."
canonical_url: "https://whichcoding.tools/tools/lm-studio"
---
# LM Studio

> Desktop app for downloading and running local LLMs offline, with the Bionic agent for coding, documents and computer control using local or cloud open models.

- **Layer**: Desktop app
- **Vendor**: Element Labs, Inc.
- **Platforms**: macOS, Windows, Linux
- **License**: Proprietary
- **Pricing**: Free tier
- **Status**: Active
- **JSON**: /api/tools/lm-studio.json

## Links

- [Website](https://lmstudio.ai/)
- [Pricing](https://lmstudio.ai/pricing)
- [Docs](https://lmstudio.ai/docs)
- [Changelog](https://lmstudio.ai/changelog)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/lmstudio)
- [X](https://x.com/lmstudio)

## Pricing

| Plan | Price | Included | Beyond that | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free (individual) | Free | — | — | Run local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX entirely offline; State-of-the-art offline voice transcription; Web search tool with Zero Data Retention when signed in; LM Link for up to 5 devices |
| Pay as you go (individual) | Usage-based | — | API list price. Cloud inference for hosted open frontier models such as DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi is billed per token from purchased credits, priced per model on the pricing page. US-based infrastructure with Zero Data Retention by default. | Buy cloud credits to run frontier open models without local hardware |
| Enterprise and Teams (enterprise) | Contact sales | — | — | Deploy Bionic in LM Studio's Zero Data Retention cloud, on your own infrastructure, or on edge devices |

LM Studio's desktop app has no license fee. Bionic Pass, a separate subscription plan shown on the pricing page, is listed as coming soon with no published price yet.

Source: [lmstudio.ai/pricing](https://lmstudio.ai/pricing), verified 2026-08-26.

## Models

- **Providers**: None recorded
- **Bring your own key**: No BYOK
- **Local models**: Yes

Runs local GGUF and MLX models fully offline through llama.cpp and MLX. LM Studio's cloud offers optional pay-per-token access to hosted open models such as DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi with Zero Data Retention. The local server also exposes OpenAI and Anthropic compatible endpoints.

## Features

- **Parallel agents**: Several agents running at once
- **MCP client**: Connects to MCP servers

## Install

- **download**: [lmstudio.ai/download](https://lmstudio.ai/download)
- **curl**: `curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash`
- **npm**: `npm install @lmstudio/sdk`
- **pip**: `pip install lmstudio`

## License

- **SPDX**: Proprietary
- **Kind**: Proprietary

The app is proprietary under its own App Terms of Service, free for personal and commercial use. The companion lms CLI is developed separately under the MIT license.

## Sources

Every fact above points at a vendor page and the date someone last checked it.

| Source | Covers | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [lmstudio.ai/pricing](https://lmstudio.ai/pricing) | pricing | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/enterprise](https://lmstudio.ai/enterprise) | pricing | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/app](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app) | platforms, general | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/app/mcp](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app/mcp) | features | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/bionic/projects-and-sessions](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/bionic/projects-and-sessions) | features | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/developer](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/developer) | models, general | 2026-08-26 |
| [beta.lmstudio.ai/app-terms](https://beta.lmstudio.ai/app-terms) | license | 2026-08-26 |

Source data: [content/tools/lm-studio.yml](https://github.com/benjamincanac/whichcodingtools/blob/main/content/tools/lm-studio.yml)

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